'Zurich best city to live in, Bangkok scores badly'

Bangkok is now not particularly tourist friendly.
Was there until yesterday, and my stay in Bangkok was partly disappointing.
The hotel rooms have also seriously increased in height in the last 2 years.
Grab a beer of Thai origin around the Sukhumvit and you will pay around 130 TB + service. Can't really be called cheap considering it's 50% more expensive than in Belgium for a less tasty beer. Go outside Bangkok and you pay half for the same beer.
The food has also become clearly expensive and people quickly spend around 600 to 700 Tb for a meal in a normal restaurant.
In the airport there you will be amazed by the prices for a beer (160 Tb) and a small dish (400 Tb)
They make it harder and harder for themselves.

As a tourist, Bangkok is still tolerable for a few days, living there seems like a nightmare to me.
When I was small cities could not be big enough for me, now I have experienced and understood that there are limits to this growth, if it is to remain livable.
The result of the study therefore does not surprise me and is in line with the results of another study, which shows that only one third of the residents of Bangkok are satisfied.
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http://der-farang.com/de/pages/zwei-drittel-der-bangkoker-mit-leben-nicht-zufrieden
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The World Happiness report 2016 compares the happiness of 157 countries. Thailand is in 33rd place. That is not surprising at all, the neighboring countries and other countries in the (broad) region lag (far) behind (with the exception of Singapore, 22):
Taiwan 35, Malaysia 47, Japan 53, South Korea 58, Hong Kong 75, Indonesia 79, Philippines 82, China 83, Vietnam 96, Laos 102, Bangladesh 110, India 118, Myanmar 119, Cambodia 140,

This doesn't surprise me. Air pollution, noise, poorly painted monotonous buildings, or disfigured high-rises. Bangkok. Once a beautiful city, as Yukio Mishima described the city in "The Temple of Dawn". That was before the car invasion that made the city completely unlivable. Incidentally, you see the same in other third world cities such as Mexico City. Europe, I don't want to say “the west” because American cities are also completely adapted to capital and cars, understand the art of cultural preservation and have more or less managed to limit car nuisance in most cities. More or less, because in Southern Europe. Italy, for example, is not left behind either. Good, but the car misery there is still compensated by beautiful architecture in beautiful inner cities. This is not the case at all in Bangkok. The temples, Mishima's wat Arun eg and some religious buildings and palaces and you've had it in Bangkok. Oh yes, you have huge shopping malls. Here in Amsterdam you don't have them that big. May they keep in Bangkok.
Give me Amsterdam. (If necessary Antwerp, beautiful city)