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Bangkok

Bangkok After Dark

Social life, late nights, romance, and the venues that make Bangkok worth staying for.

Bangkok is better when you're not trying too hard. The best rooms in this city reward the people who've stopped looking for the best rooms.

31contributors

Romance

Bangkok · 7 min read

Bangkok's Hidden Bars

Studio Lam found us before we found it. We'd been walking the eastern end of Thonglor Soi 1 for twenty minutes when we heard Bernard Purdie leaking through a door with no visible handle. Someone had to let you in. That was the point.

SPOTTEDBangkok

Spotted: New in Town, March

M. arrived from Amsterdam with a carry-on and a very specific list of people to find. She found four of them in the first week. The fifth found her.

SPOTTEDBangkok

Spotted: Thonglor, Last Friday

The table by the door at Rabbit Hole had someone's entire professional network seated at it. Three separate groups came over. None of them stayed.

SPOTTEDBangkok

The Space on Thonglor Soi 10

The space on Thonglor Soi 10 opened without a launch event.

Romance

Bangkok · 5 min

Spotted: February Departures

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Bangkok

Bangkok Nomads

The city's most productive foreigners — tech, creative, finance. Here for six months or six years.

The best work follows a good life, not the other way around. Bangkok figured this out before the rest of the world caught up.

47contributors

Career

Bangkok · 4 min read

The Ari Coffee Belt

Ari Soi 1 to Soi 4 is Bangkok's most productive square kilometer. The cafes are not incidental to that. They're the reason.

The Bangkok Coworking Cafe Map

Bangkok · 5 min

The LTR Visa, One Year On

Bangkok · 6 min

WE ASKEDBangkok

We Asked: Why Bangkok?

We asked twelve people who relocated to Bangkok in the last year a single question: why here? The answers had less in common than we expected.

Career

DISPATCH

Bangkok · 4 min

When Your Bangkok Startup Raises

Career

DISPATCH

Bangkok · 4 min

Three Founders Moved Here in January

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Berlin

Berlin Underground

Berlin's creative and nightlife underground — for those who already know where to look.

The interesting things in Berlin are always about to become unavailable. The point is to be there before that.

38contributors

Community

Berlin · 6 min read

The Berghain Question

The question is not whether you'll get in. The question is whether the version of yourself that gets in is the version you wanted to be.

Berlin's New Maker Class

Berlin · 6 min

Prenzlauer Berg Is a Different City Now

Berlin · 5 min

SPOTTEDBerlin

Spotted: Berlin, March

K.N. has been in Berlin for three weeks and has already been introduced to the Buchhandlung Walther König circle.

Community

WE ASKED

Berlin · 3 min

We Asked: Why Did You Stay in Berlin?

Create

Berlin · 4 min

RAW Gelände Is Still There

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Global

Global Signal

Cross-city intelligence on how culture, work, and social life are shifting for people in motion.

Cities are products. Some are in their best version right now. Most people find out too late.

58contributors

Career

DISPATCH

Lisbon · 5 min read

The Lisbon Correction

Lisbon was the city that got recommended. For three years it appeared at the top of every digital nomad list. Then it stopped being interesting.

The Long View on Bangkok

Bangkok · 8 min

Chiang Mai's Long Shadow

Chiang Mai · 6 min

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Vienna

Vienna Art

Artists, curators, and makers operating inside one of Europe's most overlooked creative cities.

The most interesting things in Vienna have been happening for 200 years. Most people still haven't noticed.

19contributors

Community

Vienna · 5 min read

The Gürtel After Midnight

The arch bars under the U6 between Josefstädter Strasse and Alser Strasse stations are Vienna's anti-First-District.

The MuseumsQuartier on Thursday Evenings

Vienna · 3 min

Naschmarkt at Seven AM

Vienna · 4 min

SPOTTEDVienna

Spotted: Vienna, March

T.W. was seen at the Kunsthalle opening and then again at Café Hawelka two hours later, which means the Kunsthalle opening ended exactly when it should have.

Create

Vienna · 4 min

Three Euros at the Burgtheater

Community

Vienna · 5 min

The Regulars

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