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Mashimaro · Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: location, location

Well, let's put it to the test..
For those who are unlucky enough to live outside Dechi dong, how many wish they did?

I voted a polite 'No'

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

I live in Daechi-dong. Please don't judge me. I'm a victim of geography.

Son Deureo! · Joined: 30 Apr 2003

When I live in Shinchon?

Laughing

cheem · Joined: 18 Apr 2003

I voted "yes" just to send that Daechi-ddong Waegookin dude a jolt to his loins. He may have to subsist on this sensation for weeks, so I thought, what the hay.

Daechidong Waygookin · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 6:41 am Post subject:

Son Deureo! · Joined: 30 Apr 2003

Whatever. Shinchon is a kickass place to live. Great nightlife, restaurants, parks, it rocks.

I'm glad you're happy in Gangnam and all, but I can't imagine wanting to leave here to live there just because it's where snobby middle class Koreans want to live.

Harin · Joined: 03 May 2004 Location: Garden of Eden

fidel · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Location: North Shore NZ

I voted hell no, while I live just across the river, Daechi is nothing special, looks like a bunch of run down 5 level housing to me. Plus I know this knob who lives there, and I would rather not see his ugly mug if at all possible.

canuckistan · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 3:07 pm Post subject:

I lived in Daechi and couldn't wait to leave. Way too crowded, expensive, and the air is just horrid. No thanks.

Butterfly · Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Location: Kuwait

I know it's really expensive there and all, but there isn't much there really is there? Just apartments. I suppose it's nice for the over forties. Quiet.

I am happy where I'm living but would pick 8-9 locations in seoul before I lived there.

Why?

Daechidong Waygookin

chronicpride · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

*EDIT* FTR, I voted No, but that's more to do with what I want than a criticism of Daechi-dong.

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How come so many threads suddenly about Kangnam vs. buk, "what's so good about your neighbourhood?", "who wants to live in XYZ-dong?" ??

Anyway, here's my take on a few of the biggies:

Shinchon -- Haksaeng Land for haksaeng people. As much as you might like it now, you'll inevitably outgrow it (if you haven't already) and it won't want you there anymore. In the meantime, enjoy your twenties.

Kangnam -- I've lived in Kaepo-dong, Shinsa-dong, Yangjae AND briefly in Chongdam-dong. Except for one of those places, they were all apartments. I see the attraction of apartment living, and for the time it suited me perfectly, but not anymore. Access to the subway system or big shopping centres doesn't mean much to me. I realised how much I prefer a big house with a big garden to an apartment with no garden. And while Kangnam has some of those, land prices are such that I didn't prefer houses enough to spend 2 billion won for the ones that interested me.

Itaewon -- Lived (near) there for a few years as well. It's a good, centralised place to meet friends of an evening, but that's about it anymore. Namsan park & the tower are still good for showing out-of-towners the lay of the land. It was, is, and will probably be for some time yet a foreigners' ghetto. Some ex-pats want and need that, some don't.

Sungbuk, Jongno -- Cool

. Well,

for me, but I think most younger people would go stir-crazy with all the quiet, all the greenery, all the fantastic views, and none of the mobile phone-hawking, kinky boot-wearing, nasty dancing girls, or the max-volume street vendors, the scenery-blighting highrises, the... well really, there's so much of modern-day Korea we've managed to keep at a safe distance.

Saxiif · Joined: 15 May 2003 Location: Seongnam

Used to live there, it was OK. Not as insanely expensive as Apgujeong is now, but I like Apgujeong's central location, I can get to anywhere in Seoul pretty easily.

Blind Willie · Joined: 05 May 2004

same crap as the rest of the city.