…Try rotating your Bangkok experience 90° and start following the river. It flows that way for a reason.

Be honest: Are you a Horizontal Hoe or a Vertical Vagabond?

What cracks me up is how many people who say Bangkok is getting too expensive or too scammy or too full of [insert nationality], have only ever stepped foot in Horizontal Bangkok.

Meanwhile, Vertical Bangkok is where it's actually at. Traffic is still traffic, but it’s not the Sukhumvit gridlock nightmare. Taxis actually move. Hell, even tuktuks are just normal transport in the vertical world, not a tourist trap. It’s the part of the city where real life happens. Real people, real food, and real prices. Trust me, you don’t need to be within 200m of a BTS station at all times. It’s not a lifeline.

If you feel like Bangkok is changing or not what it used to be, I’d really urge you to ditch the training wheels and go exploring. The city gets a lot bigger once you stop living your life horizontally.