oh but if you are doing 2 5 month stints you gotta go 2 month visa, 30 day extension, border run, 30 day extension. Don't do 2 border runs in the first 5 months if both by land as you are only permitted 2 of them in a calendar year. So if you want 10 months total, you'll have to do it this way unless you're flying out and back on a border run. Important you know this
Pava Scotty Pattaya isn't really slower pace imo. The reason I left was it was way too fast for me to keep up. I lasted 8 months. I was basically dragging my knuckles on the ground by the end. Moved down to bang saray and now have perfect balance
I'm from Canberra or as I call it Cantberit too and very few places are as boring as that. But I do know what you mean. Unless you have a Viagra, an iron liver and a 200k budget a month the city can get boring. I only lasted 8 months but found contentment just down the road at bang saray. Now Pattaya is like a weekend getaway