I live in a village, in my wife's familly : 5 houses with mother, brothers and sisters: good place, not noisy, people work, big garden and sala with wonderful landscape and occupation in my every day life, not boring
"civilisation " is not far, amphoe is at 4 kms, everything ( Big C, Makro, Tai watsadu etc ) inside a circle of 30 kms from my house, Internet, nice house, nice people, I speak and read good Thai
I live here for 6 years already and I don't see why I should go live somewhere else : I have found MY place
it's not Issan, but not far and I guess life is not too much different