last time in delightful travellers we checked out Chinatown in Bangkok and we were blown away
there was so much food so many people and it was so much fun in this video we're checking
out a new neighborhood in the city that's much quieter while we're exploring we keep asking
ourselves this one question could we live in Bangkok I'm Anna and this is Trevor in this
series we are back in the incredible country of Thailand make sure to hit subscribe and click the
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patrons for making these videos possible welcome back to Bangkok I'm on my way now
welcome back to another beautiful day here in Bangkok I think it's safe to say we have fallen
in love with this city So today we're actually exploring a new area to us is called Ari we're
also throughout the course of the video gonna be talking about could we actually live here
in Bangkok so this area has actually come highly recommended by quite a few people we're told it's
a little bit quieter than some of the other areas but also a little bit trendy too so we're gonna
work around check out the area and see what it has to offer the first thing I notice about this area
is it's a collection of cafes there are salons lots of different places to eat and do you hear
that that's right you don't hear that much there's almost no traffic here this doesn't even feel like
Bangkok no it's like normal normally you get like big backups of traffic long lines here it's like
very easy to drive around this is quiet yeah I like this already so for those of you that are new
around here just a little bit of background about our channel in the recent months we've started
trying to slow travel and live in places for a little while and be it one or two months at a time
really find out what it feels like to be somewhere to live to get acquainted with the neighborhoods
and that kind of thing and then in between little shorter shorter stints at other little places but
that's more jumping around so the last time we were here we were actually just here for a very
very short stint and we didn't really get to see much we were really really busy we didn't get to
travel around a lot this time around we're getting to see some different neighborhoods and explore a
lot more and I can honestly say fault were totally falling in love with this city it might be up
there now with one of our top favorites well we just came over to an area called gum this looks
to be like a collection of very colorful art and signage and buildings yeah it's kind of tucked
away from the street a little bit it's actually called gumps or a community space and it seems to
be like Trevor just said a collection of a whole bunch of different things I think there's coffee
there's a pool in the middle it's also like a top section there there's people standing above you
yeah I think there's a whole bunch of businesses including the top and the bottom so funny I was
just downstairs getting some shots for Instagram and I turned around and Trevor was gone I didn't
know where he went he came upstairs so I found him but speaking of Instagram don't forget to
follow us on there the thing about YouTube is that some people don't realize is that making
a video is so much work it takes a lot of time so we're usually a few weeks behind something
like that it depends on the time of year and where we're traveling to but we're usually a little bit
behind so be sure to follow us on Instagram we'll put up reels and things like that but stories are
when you're gonna see where we are in real time so one of the things about traveling full-time
is trying to find somewhere to get your hair cut not so much for me I'll just let it grow out and
while we're traveling and then we go home to Nova Scotia the Halifax I'll get my hair done
like basically once a year maybe someday I'll start getting it done on the road but while we
were walking around here we noticed a barber shop so Trevor's now gone in there to get his hair done
well this place is really trendy and dare I say hipster but it's going to do the trick check it
out got the haircut I think it turned out really really well now it was 16 USD to get that cut it's
actually cheaper in Phuket it's pointing that out also it was a bit nerve-wracking so they didn't
speak English and that's totally fine however I could tell between the two Barbers with my zero
tie that there was a lot of confusion about what I wanted done I showed them pictures as well we
got to where we wanted to go just don't be afraid if you're on the road just to stop them while you
get while you're getting your hair cut and say no here or stop don't not short long do whatever
you want you can say that they're always happy to take some instructions so what do you guys think
I think it turned out really well huh huh well that is a super cool complex I mean if we were
to live in this area we'd probably spend a lot of time over at gum's cutie space it actually remind
us a little bit of in the last video we were doing uh Chinatown City Chinatown and we found
this thing called Warehouse 30 which kind of has a similar Vibe yeah there's no better way to kind
of scope out a neighborhood either like I just went to the local barber now I think it's time
to go try some local food here at a restaurant we found this spot right down the road it looks
amazing in here you can see them cooking up some delicious food now I think they specialize in
something called Siamese boat noodles that's an interesting term just on its own but we're gonna
have those after this one first we got some kind of like pork skewers almost like little
fried pork balls covered in like delicious looking sauce you guys come on let's try these guys out
the texture is not at all it's like I thought it was going to be really spicy but
the pork itself sounds like like a hot dog it's like squishy and just the texture of the meat
totally different it's so weird when I took a bite I just expected this to be like uh ground pork you
know what I mean so having that expectation like you're about to have ground pork but get something
that's more like the consistency consistency consistency of a hot dog because I can't even talk
but it's still really really tasty it's full of flavor full of that spice and I think it's going
to be a good starter because we have another thing come so our noodles have arrived we had a lot of
different options on the menu basically you get these if you get pork we went with chicken and
then you have an option to get noodles which we did so there's an option for no noodles I think
we went with egg noodles there's also some broth on the side which I actually thought would be in
the bowl there's some peanuts and I think some spicy stuff on top we've also got like some herbs
and things on the side as well now we've never eaten these before no clue how to do it we tried
to ask for help and they kind of just ran away I thought they were translate something for us and
then she left and didn't come back they basically told us not to put the broth over the noodles and
the chicken so don't give us a hard time about not knowing how to eat these we actually didn't
prepare any time to research or prepare for this today I just want to point this out anytime so far
in Asia where when you get something that looks like this and some soup and then some Sprouts you
always mix it together so yeah we won't do it this time and we'll see so funny enough they actually
got another person in the restaurant that speaks in English to come over and explain it and we
just were told not to mix it so I'm assuming you just like have some of this bring some broth yeah
three separate things so here we go let's try this out oh it now it looks good so we ordered this at
spicy level number two I wonder what spicy level number two means there was a third spice level so
let's see yeah so the very first thing that hits me when I try these is actually the saltiness it's
really really salty and I think there is some sort of like spicy concoction they put on top which I
think might have the salt in it didn't say for sure I do notice a little bit of a broth I guess
or some sort of sauce at the bottom so I'll try to mix that a little bit more for my next thing
but it's also the spiciness isn't crazy we probably could have handled number three but this
is a nice spice level so if you don't want any spice there's an option number one would probably
just be ever so slightly spicy number two seems to be a really good uh good level that was so
delicious you guys the more we ate the more it got better now back to the topic at hand like could
we live in Bangkok I'll tell you the food alone makes us want to live in Bangkok in Thailand so
much different types of food obviously there are loads of different types of Thai foods which could
keep us going forever it is endless but on top of that we are in a major major city so there's loads
of different type of Western Foods different Asian Foods everything you want basically anything you'd
possibly want you're gonna find yeah I'm curious did you guys know that about Bangkok I mean I'm
sure most of you did but I'm sure there's some of you out there that think like no way you can find
everything here even the fast food restaurants if that's what you're into but oh my the Thai food
like Thai food is some of our favorite in the world I now want to move here here's a question
for you what's your favorite Thai Dish so we're actually gonna we almost went to go get it today
until we came across that place cow soy it's actually from Chiang Mai which we have not been
to we'll get to someday the northern Thai Dish it's so good it's so good I think mine I love cow
soy as well but lately we've been all about um I think they call it like Penang chicken curry yeah
curry chicken and we've been really really into that and before we got here green curry and red
curry was always what we would go for because we can get that sometimes massaman like the typical
ones you'd find in Canada but oh my the Penang curry chicken so good one thing that's absolutely
incredible in this city is the public transit we have been using it all the time to get around we
showed you that in other videos and now we're back in soup and wit just like magic it's so easy to
get around this city I know some of you can be intimidated by public transport in other cities
and other countries when you go to them don't be here this might be the easiest we've ever come
across now we should also talk about international airports or airports in general when it comes to
places that where we might want to live we need to really think about all those factors and here the
Bangkok International Airport I mean it feels like we can pretty much fly to any country in the world
honestly it's incredible also you can fly to other parts of Thailand and just mere hours it's great
down in the South it's only an hour flight to get to so many different islands and we love that we
love we're in our way from incredible beaches to this city it's pretty perfect but we should
probably talk about the price of buildings and well real estate and apartments in general well
uh what do you think how much would a building like this cost to live in or buy yeah this is the
thing I'm pretty sure to buy definitely to buy the condo building in front of us here in circumvit
prices seem pretty high I hadn't done that much research on it so maybe I'm wrong here but this
one says one bedroom Loft does that mean 11.2 million Baht do you think 11.2 million Baht
that's a lot of money yeah that's like 340 000 USD so it's definitely not cheap I know we're
in a very very popular popular area I tried to look up some rental prices as well again
I only spent like maybe 10 minutes looking and it seems like everything was like 1500 to 2 000 for
a really nice apartment which I was surprised but I feel like people always talk about Bangkok being
so inexpensive to rent an apartment and they're probably just talking about the different areas
so question for you guys that are familiar with Bangkok are there areas like this or like Ari I
haven't looked up rental prices there so you can get like a really really nice apartment
and have lots of amenities around and be close to public transit like give us some suggestions
in the comments for good areas So speaking of uh expensive places we did try to get an apartment
or rent an apartment while we were here for the last little while however we found it was more
affordable to actually stay in a hotel at least at the moment right I know it's kind of too bad
not that I mind staying at a hotel but we've been here for like 10 nights or something like that so
a little bit of a longer stay this is a long time to stay at a hotel I would have prefer to have an
apartment but when I looked on Airbnb everything was like almost like 80 to 100 at USD at night
which I was surprised about and we were looking at quite last minute we were we never we often don't
plan things months months in advance no maybe that was part of the issue we're also again looking at
something good so we need to find out find some more neighborhoods but I think we spent like 40
or 45 U.S yeah bottom line is we stayed at a hotel instead of an apartment and we're about to show
you that now well this is the hotel and before we go to our room we wanted to show you this the
rooftop it's a beautiful rooftop pool like for for the price point okay I can't believe we're
getting a gorgeous view and a really beautiful pool like this yeah you can see the skyline in the
background it's awesome I just love that there's stuff like this yeah we're big cool people I don't
know if people know that but like we every place we stay we'd love to have a pool where we can just
take a break from working we do work actually work a lot yeah and so if you can come up here for an
hour or two and just get a little bit of sun and a little bit of relaxation between work periods it's
really great I also just want to point out this amazing weather we've had such great weather in
Bangkok in fact the first time we were here the weather was just as nice it's blue skies and Sun
every single day so we love that we're actually curious if it's like that all the time to us it
feels like that so A few videos ago now or maybe a little more than that we actually did a video
about the weather when we were in Phuket and you guys all know we had what was some of the worst
weather we've ever had in our lives and we got so many negative comments in that video now not from
you guys that are watching you guys are great and you guys understood that it does suck even
if you're traveling full-time if you have almost a whole entire month of bad weather it's it's a
bummer it's okay for something to be a bummer but it brought out all of the negative nancies and
everyone started to say all you guys do is whine all you guys do is complain and it just takes that
kind of one or two comments when we read them and sometimes it can stick in your head we have thick
skin but sometimes it can again it's probably not any of you watching because the negative nancies
hopefully aren't here in this video but if we've learned anything about those negative nancies I'll
tell you the weather triggers you guys oh my boy does the weather trigger you welcome to our room
we're going to give you a very quick room tour this is our little like closet area slash kitchen
area so we've got a little coffee station a fridge and only a little bit of space to hang our clothes
so that's been a bit of a challenge as you can see our clothes are a giant mess right now that's
actually been the biggest thing about staying in a hotel room it's not really any drawers or anything
in here but otherwise it's a really really nice room the big king size bed and a massive TV
over here which well we haven't used but yeah we never use the TV it is big and then over this way
uh there is a little desk so that's that's cool bathroom is this way so they're in this bathroom
yeah it's nice but it's small these doors are a little bit Yeah they kind of don't stay open so
just be aware of that so you got toilet on one side sink area on one side and a creepy like
rainfall shower head in there we're gonna go back to YouTube comments again for a second it's so
funny I know Trevor just said this but it's like you can get thousands and thousands of really
nice comments and then get three negative ones and we'll just stick in your head three out of
thousands but it's unfortunate just the way humans are I guess but one thing you guys know is in the
last few months six months or so we started kind of changing pivoting our Channel a little bit the
way we travel as well and slower travel trying to live places really the whole topic of this video
but once in a while someone will leave a comment or direct message us on Instagram or something and
be like stop saying that you're living in places and I don't really understand the comment like I
know for some people you don't you live in one place and you never move so to them the idea of
being in one place for a month and living there just seems really bizarre because they've lived
in the same place the whole time we don't really have a home our home is on the road so stay in one
place for a month for three months something like that that's living there you're integrating into
this into you know the community you're having to figure out internet and sometimes you have to pay
utility bills you have to go to the grocery store it's like totally different than being on vacation
we are not on vacation we very rarely even take a day off let alone a week off so nobody tell
us we're on vacation because that always irritates us going back to that comment when people say stop
living places you're just on an extended vacation no we're not if we're on an extended vacation we
are completely Doing It Wrong we're working too much I don't know why we're making the videos
and we're working on all these websites I mean I wish we could just do absolutely nothing don't
get me wrong we're loving what we do but we're not on extended vacation and we've been now in
Thailand for about three months until we had to leave once and come back for a run but you know
that's kind of like living somewhere we know Thai people here again if you missed it before we'd
love you guys to leave us some recommendations for us in this in Bangkok basically like where
do you think the best neighborhoods are the most affordable but also they have lots of amenities
cool spots maybe some craft beer places and you know has local food and western food and lots
of options yeah we've been loving exploring the neighborhoods in this series like I I think you
guys can tell that we're loving this city I think we'll always come back here every time we come to
Southeast Asia at this point it's it's so so awesome and we are still debating do we come
here for a longer period of time just in Bangkok I think it's going to happen but for now we're
actually going back down south yes we're gonna try it again yeah we can't get enough of beaches last
time it didn't go quite as we hoped for we still loved it and look at but it wasn't quite what we
hope for so going to kosumui so recommended we're actually going because so many people recommending
yeah it's because of you guys so many of you have said you have to go to Coast the movie it would be
right up your alley so that's what we're gonna do in the next video we can't wait we actually leave
like tomorrow yeah so here we are so exciting the final video for now in Bangkok but we're off to
explore more of this area all right guys that's it from Bangkok wishing you delightful travels
see you soon