By udon , January 9, in Southern Thailand Forum. Tried the search engine but most items abt Chumphon, were about floods and malaria. Thanks for any info. I have a friend who lives there, he could be a less active on this board. Been to his place 2 times. Chumpon itself is worth nothing it has supermarkets and ATMs , the beaches around it are ok. Cabana Beach, Thai tourist resort low end , the friend rents a 3 storey house with 5 or six bedrooms and that many bathrooms for 5K baht per month altogether, m from the sands.
IMO, much nicer to live there than upcountry. If nobody else would, I'll post some pics later when I am back from Paragon. I know Chumphon well and it has its good and bad points but overall it is a desirable place to live in my opinion. The main square of the town is hot, dirty, dusty and confusing to navigate at first but that is because it is jam packed with all sorts of Ma n Pa stores.
There is a supermarket located next to KFC but it is nowhere near as good as Tesco Lotus or Big C but there is an ongoing rumour that Tesco Lotus will open a place there sometime in the near future. Just outside of town you will find that life is far quieter and more picturesque. There are many beaches around Chumphon and the water is crystal clear and so nice to bathe and swim in.
The beaches sadly are becoming more scruffy and unkempt but it is mostly litter and flotsam swept in from the ocean which they could easily tidy if they organised a proper volunteer force i.
The people are very friendly and polite and the ladies of Chumphom are also very beautiful but it is honest relationships you will have to strike up as its not the type of place that encourages prostitution, basically everyone knows everyone else or is in some way related through friends and family but don tlewt that fool you into thinking there are not a lot of people, there is but because they are friendlier everyone associates with each other on one level or another.
