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Is it a waste of travel experiences to Keep Coming Back to Bangkok?
After a year of working in a traditional corporate job in my country, I pivoted to become self-employed. This allowed me to live for a total of about 18 months in Chiang Mai from 2016-2019, where I had a girlfriend.
Then I explored Bangkok for a month before Covid hit and I really liked it. Ever since the restrictions eased in 2022, I've found myself coming back to Bangkok several times each year for 4-8 weeks at a time.
During my visits to Bangkok, I sometimes go to Vietnam or explore a new place in Thailand for a few days, but it's mostly like Bangkok is a second home base for me. I spend my days here living something approximating a normal routine like back home only in a surrounding that I feel more alive in. I visit interesting cafes and work for a few hours, I eat delicious food, I exercise, and I read. Sometimes I'll go check out a new part of the city or new restaurant. I get foot massages and Thai massages several times per week.
But when I contemplate the size of the world, or even just the size of this part of the world it's like I'm sacrificing a lot just to travel to where I feel comfortable and content. I love the food in Bangkok (and Thailand in general), I can train muay Thai cheaply, the coffee is amazing, massages are a God send for someone who spends hours per day working on a laptop.
I don't have tons of friends here, but I've made some really interesting transient connections over a few beers. Dating-wise, I'm not that into one-night stands so I tend to be in relationships here.
But by never seeing places like the Philippines, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan I feel like the average person on a 6-month gap year experiences more novelty than I have in years of travel. Often when I bump into people passing through Bangkok I'm staggered at the number of countries they've visited in their lives and I compare myself to that. I am starting to wonder if I'm wasting what is clearly a privileged position to be able to travel this much. I guess I'm half venting and half looking for opinions on what I've written.
best som tam in Bangkok? Krua Dok Mai Kao 2026
yeah Krua Dok Mai Kao is solid but if you're up for a detour, try Som Tum Nua near Siam Square. their som tam pu pla ra is insane if you like the fermented fish sauce kick. way more pungent than the On Nut spot, just less grilled chicken options