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Theme B: Creating a livable, healthy and environmentally viable citiesSource: Survey by research team, August 2006It was found that residents in the study area go shopping, watch movies, meetfamily and friends, do social work and also other activities that are less than 20kilometers distant from their homes. This means that they are satisfied with goingout to other places around their residential area. In addition, they are also satisfieddoing the aforementioned activities, spending less than 30 minutes and spending atleast 7 Baht to go shopping, watch movies or meet family and friends. They alsospend a around 300 baht on shopping, 159 Baht on watching movies, 1,800 Bahtmeeting family, 500 Baht meeting friends and other activities, 250 Baht on socialwork and 3,500 Baht traveling to other provinces (see Table 8).Table 8: Cost spending of commuting travel to social function of residents instudy areas (Baht)Cost of travel(Baht)Min Max Mean SDShopping730046.9959.019Movie715940.0047.476Meet cousin71,800209.96415.773Meet friend650089.76129.379Other province803,500851.32803.358Help social50250133.33104.083Other10500124.17159.837Source: Team survey, August 2006Figure 7 shows the percentage of Bangkapi sub area residents’ use of distance andtime spent commuting and doing social functions. It shows that when residentsusually go out to do social functions, they travel less than 20 kilometers and spendless than 30 minutes traveling. Except for some activities, they may travel further255