Nimmanhaemin

This guide to Nimmanhaemin in Chiang Mai traces a neighborhood built twice over: first as a gift of land from the Nimmanhaemin family in the early nineteen sixties that let Chiang Mai University open its doors, and later as a quiet enclave of modernist homes for the professors and doctors who settled nearby. Decades on, cheap rent and strong wifi drew a very different crowd to the same streets. Look for the quiet houses down the side lanes, apart from the glass malls and roasteries on the main road.