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Quick trivia before we get into it: What year did Thailand launch the Destination Thailand Visa, the long-stay permit that replaced the old visa-run routine for digital nomads?
A) 2022 B) 2023
C) 2024 D) 2025 Reply with your guess, we will reveal the answer in the full piece. Answer it in the comments once you have read the full piece. We will confirm the answer in the comments below once a few of you have guessed. |
Hello borderless souls,
Today's piece is a City Deep Dive, a new format where we go block by block instead of country by country. Chiang Mai kicks it off. We talked to someone paying 650 dollars for the same size apartment that cost her 2,400 dollars in Austin, and we get into why that number would have looked completely different if she had picked a different neighborhood.
The full article is up now. Let's get into it! |
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Chiang Mai has been the go-to answer for where's cheap and easy for almost a decade now, and it mostly still is. But we have been getting messages from people who moved there expecting the 500 dollar a month version of the city and landed in the 1,200 dollar version instead, because they picked Nimman without knowing Nimman had quietly become the expensive part of town.
The full breakdown, the neighborhood by neighborhood cost differences, the friction points that show up around month three, and our Geo-Metric and Efficiency Scores for the city are all in today's guide.
Thailand's Destination Thailand Visa, launched in July 2024, sent a fresh wave of remote workers flocking to Chiang Mai, many expecting bargain-basement rents that the city had long since left behind.
Chiang Mai still delivers but the smartest arrivals research the neighborhoods before they book the flight. Read More... |
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