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[jajdude]

(This may even help some who have not yet been to Korea.)

My neighborhood now is boring indeed. A few PC rooms, a few convenience stores, a few kimbap restaurants. That's about it. It takes 20 minutes to find anything else. It's somewhat in the sticks, in a residential area of Incheon.

[sheba]

Yep, Im about the same.

Its a bit run down here... quite old. Its good though, seems like the real Korea... not Americanised Korea.

[uberscheisse]

apkujeong/sinsadong border.

is this really the beverly hills of korea? it looks like the brooklyn of whitehorse. cramped, smelly, no greenspace except a big soccer field...

not that i'm complaining, i'd just rather live up in seocho or something where there's tree-lined streets. my neighborhood does have good bars and restaurants...

[canukteacher]

Furniture anyone? Overpriced designer outlet stores. I'm in Ansan at Hanyang Univ Station. There is nothing here to get excited about. Oh I forgot, I do like the Orange Mango low-fat yogurt. OM is about a 7 minute walk from my apt.



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[pollyplummer]

I like my neighborhood. I am five minutes walk from the Home Plus and 15 minutes from Hyundai department store. There are bars, hofs, restaurants aplenty, including western fast food, if I need it. (which I do, I do) Behind my officetel are many "Business Club" type establishments and highly questionable massage parlors and all manner of revelry at all hours of the night. But I don't mind it so much. I am five minutes walk from my taekwondo dojang and 15 min from my school. Everything I need is at hand. I think I'm pretty fortunate.

[coldcrush]

i live in the inner city. great view of said city. a hop skip and a jump away from the football ground and tennis centre.

the main drag here has every cuisine under the sun. (argentinian, nepalese, indian, tibetan, burmese, mexican, french, greek, lebanese, thai, vietnamese, japanese, to name but a few) and a fist full of cafes. the designer outlets begin two blocks from here. and the main street over is little vietnam where you can purchase just about anything for a few dollars - the chinese/viet food there is second to none. there's a street market on saturdays that sells fresh and organic fruit and vegetables from the regional farms. and a 24 hour supermarket for those middle of the night needs. there's also a cinema and an ikea a couple of blocks up. parks galore and the river runs very close. it's a great city. ^^

[thorin]

A mountain, a river, two bridges, rice paddies, frogs, cuckoos, a Goryeo period temple, a monastery, some strange confuciansts, bell mart, the mechanic, the shoe/key guy, the vegetable ajummas, the hair ajummas, the butcher, the stationary store, the video store, the dry cleaners, two ATMs, a gimbap place, gyochon chicken, galbi, fish, noodles, the ������, the hof, the health club, taekwondo, my apartment complex, a basketball court, that's about it.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

We live in a mainly residential area. There are some restaurants and cafes towards E-Mart, but thankfully there's not much noise, nor is it a popular area for drinking/nightlife. The homes are mostly duplexes (there are a few houses). There was an ordinance that all duplexes have no more than 3 residences, but that's definitely not the case for most of the buildings here. There were 5 other families in our last place, and 6 other families at our current one. Still, it's relatively quiet, and it's close to the mountain, so there are lots of trees. It's pretty clean, but there are a lot of churches, so the streets are regularly lined with cars double (and often triple) parked. The juxtaposition of fairly rundown buildings with semi-luxurious apartments is a little aesthetically lacking, but (for Korea) it's a nice enough area for raising children.

Sparkles*_*

[sarahsarah]

Mountains, trees, rice fields, my school...that's about it.

Closest bus stop is a 30 minute walk.

[Gollum]

[JongnoGuru]

The Neighbourhood: Not a rice paddy in sight, though plenty of mountains and temples. No real nightlife unless you're a cat or a bird or a frog or a mosquito. The few restaurants serve cuisine from every corner of... the Republic. Not the ideal place to live if you want to be able to walk to shops or restaurants, though the old grannies and Buddhist monks seem to enjoy the half-hour's forced march from here to civilisation. I've heard rumours of bus stops hereabouts, but cannot confirm. Though just 10-12 min. by motorcycle to the DEAD centre of Seoul.

More houses than apartments. More trees than people. More squirrels than freaky waygook nuts (though the Guru's presence does help maintain a rough balance). Boring and excellent.

[JacktheCat]

Rice fields, a few "mountains", the Han river, dog meat farms, my school, more rice fields. King Sejong's tomb and few cool buddhist temples.

Closest real town is a 45min bus ride away. And I am the only whitie in a 15km radius.

[just because]

Mine is nice...

I'm surrounded by vegie gardens yet downtown Changwon is only 10 minutes taxi ride away......

So quiet and peaceful and all brand new....it doesn't feel like Korea out here....

[VanIslander]

Love my neighbourhood. Urban up close, but a short walk from nature.

My rooftop apartment is on a four-storey building just behind the large apartment complex in the foreground, two blocks from the bay and three from the ferry terminal. It's a happening nightlife district for tens of thousands of relatively rich shipyard workers and over a thousand foreigners. Only about 40,000 live in Okpo however, as others live fifteen minutes away on the north coast of the island in bigger but less happening Gohyeon.



Yet, I can walk for ten minutes over to the next of many bays and coves on the east coast of Geoje island and see places like the following:



I feel like I live in a city because Okpo is so condensed an urban area full of restaurants and nightlife, yet if I head up the island a little (very little) I feel like I'm in a beautiful countryside.

I can think of only two or three other places in Korea I've liked as much or more, and none are as close to a big city (50 minutes by ferry) as Geoje is to Busan.

[buddy bradley]

I live on the wrong side of the tracks apparently. Even those massage delivery girls won't come to my place.