Ok guys and gal, one thing that impresses me the first day I came here is the people. Don't know why but the people here gave me a good feeling. Kept smiling and appear to be very sincere. Hell I don't mean the 5-stars places, in fact I've still not been to any, all the places including my "hotel" are "no-star" but the feeling I got was really nice and warm. I like this place so much. If you think that Thailand or Thais are always nice to people then I want to say here in the north they are EXTRA-nice.
These two days of driving around also showed me Chiang Mai is pretty international with many foreigners living here. I really like this place and I am sure my plan to have a house here is a right plan with direct connection to Singapore through Silkair. So yesterday afternoon I went for house "shopping" came across one that I really like by an upmarket developer.
One unit I really like is a 4 bedroom unit 200sqm inside sitting on 492sqm of land. 24 hours security, double barrier gate at the village entrance, condo facilities like club, gym, swimming pool etc. Inside house floors, kitchen, toilets etc all done up, just need to buy furniture and lights for inside (outside lights all done). Garden complete with a gazebo and fountain and trees etc. And maybe if like to make build-in cabinets if not just buy from IKEA is ok. This village is less than 10km from city centre and overlooking the mountains. Here's the layout and artist impression
The plan shows two cars but the actual unit could park 4 cars easily.
The steal? 6.39mil baht (S$254k). I am sure no need to spend more than 1mil (S$40k) to furnish it up including installing 8 channels security camera system. Really tempting. Almost put up the 50,000 baht booking fee yesterday but decided to look around some more.
