Malaysia oh Malaysia. I moved here in 2017 to continue my studies and ended up staying because I genuinely felt happier here. I'm currently living in Subang Jaya and there's a lot to love about this area.
Firstly, there's food everywhere. Anywhere you walk you can find food and there's all kinds of food from different cultures. I also like how there's mamaks which are open up late and some even 24 hours so after playing sports or just hanging out with friends you can chit chat and eat out late at night.
Secondly, the people here are nice. I feel people here are generally kind and happy to help out even though there's the occasional grumpy / bad attitude people. I've been playing pickleball everyday and meeting at least one new person every time and I want to say about 95% of the people I've played and talked to were someone I wouldn't mind playing with again. Apart from the general people, a lot of my family is here in Malaysia which is nice to have the occasional big family gatherings.
Thirdly, I like how my area is kind of central to everywhere. It's like thirty minutes from KL from car and about an hour with train. The public transportation is good and I live near a train station so I could go almost anywhere around. If you look at the picture above, I live near Wawasan station so from there I can go to any of the other stations.
As for dislikes, I dislike the weather. It's either super humid where you sweat even in the shade or maybe it's monsoon season where it's rainy and not so bad but I don't really like to go out when it's raining. The weather is only good if you go near the mountain areas like genting highlands or cameron highlands, then it's a bit cooling due to the higher elevation. Honestly, weather is the only thing I dislike.
Best thing of all, Hivefest will be in Malaysia this year. I want to go but I don't want to go alone. If you are going, let's hangout. Then you can understand better why I like and dislike the things I mentioned! Are you going Galen?