The original digital-nomad city. Old-town cafés, $400 condos, Nimman coworking, deep expat infrastructure. Smoke season Feb-April is the catch.
From Wikipedia
Chiang Mai is the largest city in northern Thailand, the capital of Chiang Mai province and the second-largest city in Thailand by urban population. It is 700 km (435 mi) north of Bangkok in a mountainous region called the Thai highlands, and has a population of approximately 127,000 within the city municipality and an urban population of about 1.2 million as of 2023.