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The local food and the weather.

The tomatoes are crap at the moment probably because of too much rain.

No winter

Excellent local food

My favourite coffee shop and its ultra-cheap delicious liquid offerings ... and the fried bananas are pretty stunning as well

Padang food, especially rendang

Very friendly people

A slary that I hardly use - I'm still on the March payment (after stuffing a sack of cash into savings accounts) - That means no money stress

Nice family

Other good things about the city where I live is that the elevation is 768m or 2,620 ft above sea level, so it is generally less hot and humid than most other parts of the country although there is more rain than other parts and the city is also surrounded by mountains.

Despite being the fourth largest city in Indonesia, the place feels more like a large town full of old colonial bungalows and Dutch colonial era buildings and most of the streets in the city are heavily lined with trees.

One of the best things used to be that the airport was downtown (owned by the military) but a couple of years ago for certain reasons commercial flights were stopped and a new airport far away and in the middle of nowhere was built. Unfortunately this new airport is now mostly only used for Hajj or Umroh trips by locals now since there is no proper transportation link with the city so nobody else wants to use it. Most locals, including tourists from Malaysia and Singapore and other Asian countries that want to visit our city, now use the airport in Jakarta which is 2 - 3 hours away which is more inconvenient.

The good news, is that the new mayor of our city is planning to negotiate with the military to again to share the downtown airport for international and domestic commercial flights. Many businesses have suffered because while local tourists from Jakarta still flock here every weekend, tourists from other Asian countries are not really coming here due to the lack of direct flights. Hopefully things will work out well.

One of the best things used to be that the airport was downtown (owned by the military) but a couple of years ago for certain reasons commercial flights were stopped and a new airport far away and in the middle of nowhere was built. Unfortunately this new airport is now mostly only used for Hajj or Umroh trips by locals now since there is no proper transportation link with the city so nobody else wants to use it. - @wyngrove60

I lived in Cirebon, but travelled all over the country when that was built.

"BONUS!", shouted I.

"Ugg", thought I when I found there was no transport link from anywhere, even the nearest large city. It was far easier to go to Jakarta than an airport 30 minutes away.

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