Practical Life in Chiang Mai: Utilities, Visas, and Healthcare
Chiang Mai is easy to love when you are passing through. The food is cheap, the cafés are pleasant, the pace feels softer than Bangkok, and getting from a temple-lined old street to a modern mall takes less time than crossing some neighborhoods in bigger cities. Living there long term is a different thing. Not worse, necessarily, but more grounded. You stop looking at the mountains as scenery and start checking the air quality app. You stop treating immigration as a one-tim