But which of The Unique Condos’ golden LOCATIONS around Chiang Mai to pick?

With The Unique Condo @ Nimman sittin’ on a single rai plot and The Unique Condo @ Nimman 2 taking up about two-thirds as much land one door down, both properties are superiorly positioned on soi Suk Kasame literally a matter of paces to the brightest lights in town, Nimmanhaemin Road! Along the main strip and its branching side lanes, an overload of cosmopolitan restos, franchised and indie coffee shops, co-working places, wellness clinics, boutique retailers, shopping arcades and the coolest after-

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dark beer, wine and cocktail lounges; not forgetting at nearby Rin Kham Intersection, the iconically futuristic Maya Lifestyle mall laying claim to over a ton of stores and eateries, duo of food courts, Rimping Supermarket, 24-hour CAMP library café, multiplex cinema [movie theatre], MAXX Fitness, and on the observation decked rooftop (‘Nimman Hill‘), several sky bars. While directly west of the condos and scarcely any less walkable lies Canal Road and just beyond, Chiang Mai University’s partly wooded principal campus stuffed with student-priced cafeteria, farmers’ markets, public library, sports clubs and, unmissable at sundown, the picture-perfect Ang Kaew lake backed by the verdant Doi Suthep-Pui mountains.

Occupying a rather more suburban spot on a bit over one and a quarter rai where the Inner Ring Road [Highway 3029] meets the Chiang Mai-Phrao Road at Ruamchok Meechai

Intersection stands The Unique Condo @ Ruamchok. Right across the way looms the jumbo sized Tesco Lotus Ruamchoke hypermarket for a massive selection of everyday affordable groceries and domestic wares. Opposite which, the joyously crowd-free Meechok Plaza home to Rimping Supermarket, surrounding international restaurants not least Kelly’s Bistro for authentically English fish ‘n’ chips and, out front twice weekly, an absolutely smashin’ night market. Next door and now boasting a Tops supermarket is Ruamchok Mall; then Kad

Ruamchok fresh market beside a parade of mom-and-pop shops shifting everything from cooked-to-order economical Thai grub to almost every sort of household supply known to man! Otherwise to hit the city, head down the southbound carriageway of Highway 1001 and in hardly more than one klick, the Super Highway at Fa Ham (Mae Jo) junction.

Covering an area of more than one and a half rai set back from Manee Nopparat Road and named after its whereabouts on the northern edge of the city [mueang] moat [khu], Chiang Mai’s condominiums simply don’t get any more central than The Unique Condo @ Koomuang! Why, not a coupla hundred metres away is the Old

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City’s north-west [Hua Lin] corner and from there, up Hussadhisawee Road into the midst of the ever reviving yet still largely local neighbourhood of Santitham; or down Bunrueang Rit Road to Chiang Mai Ram

Hospital and, with drive-thru Starbucks, the recently finished CMR Health Centre Complex; else, straight onto Huay Kaew Road and a stone’s throw to the aged but refreshingly practical Kad Suan Kaew mall  blessed with a Central department store, Tops supermarket, ‘Tasty Factory’ food court, bowling alley, karaoke, cinema and, on Thursdays to Saturdays, the cracking Sum Murd night market. Whereas making in an easterly direction from the condo en route to Chang Phueak Gate in under 10 minutes on foot, Computer Plaza and Icon IT electronica malls; Icon Park with KFC, Pizza Hut and Goodbar watering hole; PTT filling [gas] station with Jiffy convenience store; 3 Little Pigs Soul Kitchen for regional American fare and El Diablo’s Burritos for Mexican; Thai and Korean shabu buffet joints; a 24-hour Tesco Lotus Express; and Chang Phueak’s roofed day and outdoor night markets.