Moda condo is a mere couple of minutes’ stroll from the well-trafficked and decidedly futuristic-looking Maya Lifestyle Shopping Centre. With over a hundred shops and restaurants, the complex features a digital 10-screen cinema, food courts, a fitness studio, and Chiang Mai’s Rimping Supermarket branch.

for those who can’t get enough of dining, shopping or entertainment, facing Maya lies the northern fringe of the hippest and hottest haunt in town, Nimman. An expensive and dynamic neighbourhood heaving to the brim with franchised and independent coffee houses, half the city’s complement of fully-fledged co-working spaces and a medley of cosmopolitan eating establishments. Or else, for a change of scenery or pace, intersecting with Nimmanhaemin’s main drag at Rin Kham Junction is Huay Kaew Road, and an easy 20 minutes on foot along the thoroughfare stands the main campus of Chiang Mai University (CMU) with its beautiful Ang Kaew lake backdropped by Doi Suthep-Pui National Park. In the opposite direction, the traditional heart of the municipality, the ‘Old City’, by way of the altogether and ever-popular Kad Suan Kaew Mall.