Moving to Penang in August

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BillothMember30 May 2013 10:26:17

Dear friends,

I'm an English Science Teacher who's moving over to Bayan Lepas in August to work in a new school that only opened last year.

I'm very excited to be moving to Malaysia, but also anxious to find friends who would want to do some travelling around Asia and Australasia and get active doing outdoor sports including biking, climbing and water sports including surfing, kite surfing. I love music... listening and dancing!

A few tips would also be grateful!

My accomodation is all sorted for me, so other tips e.g. should I get a car?

Thanks

DavidViP31 May 2013 10:23:05

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Hi Billoth,

Please feel free to participate the Malaysia Forum to create new contacts and friendship, this might help.

I suggest you to go through the Malaysia forum, Everyday life section, in order to learn interesting features Malaysia has to offer.

Thank you,

David.

caesar1956Serial expat31 May 2013 13:48:30

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welcome to malaysia

farmActive member01 June 2013 09:09:29

YES you should get a car. People like dissing the taxis in KL, I guess they never been to Penang. Taxi is not an option in Penang, public transport bad in KL? Compared with Penang the KL PT is flawless.

Bayan Lepas is an mostly an industrial area, factories, factories, factories. Hopefully your accommodation will not be in Bayan Lepas area but rather Georgetown/gurney/tg bungah/bt ferringhi area. In which case you gonna need a car to get to/from work anyway.

If you are unlucky and you accommodation is in Bayan Lepas area, then you gonna need a car just to get out of there in the evenings. No matter how, you're gonna need the car!

There is a shopping mall of decent size in the area (Queensbay), but after 2-3 weekends then you seen it all there

roystevenungActive member04 June 2013 00:22:52

Welcome to Penang!

As suggested by many you will need a car. For starters I would advise you to get a decent car, yet not too expensive. But the cars here are pretty pricy. The good thing is fuel is cheap. For RON 95, it is RM1.90 per liter.

Penang drivers drives with their six sense and it takes years of practice without getting your car scratched or involve in accidents LOL.

The beauty of it is that if you can drive in Penang, you can safely say you can drive anywhere in the world. The traffic in Penang is somewhat still manageable, unlike KL. Unless of course people flocks Penang due to school holiday.

yahonzaActive member04 June 2013 02:04:45

Anytime I've driven to Penang from KL, I ditch the car when I arrive and hire a bike, the Penang traffic is tediously slow most of the time.

roystevenungActive member04 June 2013 03:55:50

Slow is better than being caught in a horrendous 2 hours traffic jam in KL :-)

I heard we would be getting trams/monorail or something inanely similar. I hope I'll live long enough to at least see the ground breaking ceremony :p

But yeah, a bike or bicycle along the Tanjung Bunga/Ferrighi area would be the best mode of transport.

At peak hours even those who travel by foot at times is able to wave passed by those being caught in the jam.

farmActive member04 June 2013 15:36:19

Bike is only an option if you have the guts to ride one in Malaysian traffic

JackcollGuest05 June 2013 07:50:08

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YES you should get a car or motor bike easy

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