7 Reasons Why You Really Shouldn’t Move to Cambodia
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When I read the piece I thought it was an amusing read, full stop. Yesterday I got an email from an old colleague in Singapore who told me he was considering a job here as CFO of a foreign bank but was now having second thoughts as his wife had just read THE SEVEN REASONS NOT TO GO!
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Yeah, you're right.Lucky Lucan wrote:I don't agree that it's mostly their fault, but solely blaming teachers is totally lame. The parents, culture and students are as much, or more to blame than the teachers. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.vladimir wrote:
NO, you dumb motherfucker, it's mostly their fault.
I just love the way the owners are always left out of the equation, and usually it's them setting the limbo-bar standards.
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Red DRAGON wrote:When I read the piece I thought it was an amusing read, full stop. Yesterday I got an email from an old colleague in Singapore who told me he was considering a job here as CFO of a foreign bank but was now having second thoughts as his wife had just read THE SEVEN REASONS NOT TO GO!
Haha, thanks. I love hearing stuff like that.
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I wonder whether this reason (slightly modified, with apologies to GavinMac) would be an incentive or a reason NOT TO move to Cambodia for some wives and husbands.Red DRAGON wrote:When I read the piece I thought it was an amusing read, full stop. Yesterday I got an email from an old colleague in Singapore who told me he was considering a job here as CFO of a foreign bank but was now having second thoughts as his wife had just read THE SEVEN REASONS NOT TO GO!
You will be able to find a new hot young mistress every time you feel like a change in Cambodia, especially if you are transferred there by a multinational company.
Is there a thread or article " 7 reasons why you should move to Cambodia"?
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You came up with this, Cambodian?Cambodian wrote:I wonder whether this reason (slightly modified, with apologies to GavinMac) would be an incentive or a reason NOT TO move to Cambodia for some wives and husbands.Red DRAGON wrote:When I read the piece I thought it was an amusing read, full stop. Yesterday I got an email from an old colleague in Singapore who told me he was considering a job here as CFO of a foreign bank but was now having second thoughts as his wife had just read THE SEVEN REASONS NOT TO GO!
You will be able to find a new hot young mistress every time you feel like a change in Cambodia, especially if you are transferred there by a multinational company.
It's one of the risks/perks depending on what team you're swinging for.
But in any case, you're assured a whole lot of drama.
Red DRAGON wrote:When I read the piece I thought it was an amusing read, full stop. Yesterday I got an email from an old colleague in Singapore who told me he was considering a job here as CFO of a foreign bank but was now having second thoughts as his wife had just read THE SEVEN REASONS NOT TO GO!
Cambodian wrote:I wonder whether this reason (slightly modified, with apologies to GavinMac) would be an incentive or a reason NOT TO move to Cambodia for some wives and husbands.
You will be able to find a new hot young mistress every time you feel like a change in Cambodia, especially if you are transferred there by a multinational company.
Sarcasm/Satire alert.Joon wrote:You came up with this, Cambodian?
It's one of the risks/perks depending on what team you're swinging for.
But in any case, you're assured a whole lot of drama.
Why should the local males have all the fun? Their wives seem to be resigned to this idea that "men will always be men" and many of them seem to privately enjoy the breaks from marital duties.
Even the wives of many Cambodian returnees seem to reluctantly accept this practice and prefer to concentrate on enjoying the material perks of life in Cambodia.
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Nice comment on the front page this week by a woman who went to Cambodia to teach English but was driven "in sain."
When I first read this article before I went I thought, every person has a choice to partake in alcohol etc. I consider myself to be a strong willed person but since going there and being completed isolated working in a school for to months I have to say the amount of negativity you are surrounded by is disgusting and enough to drive anyone in sain. It seems the Cambodian people stick together, but as a foreigner I certainly did not feel it. I was there to teach English, I knew nothing of the country and went innocently to do something good. All I got asked was what am I doing there and had people at the school telling me I could get kidnapped and held for ransom and the going rate is 180,000$.
I went with love tefl and found myself isolated left alone and abused by the people in the school with whom I had gone to volunteer my time. I was not appreciated, welcomed or to be honest wanted there. I was used and abused, being locked out of the kitchen when I had bought food,cake left in my toilet which attracked cockroaches and lizards and when I screamed. I was laughed at. I witnessed old men exploiting girls in pubs openly, I was constantly ripped off by tuk tuk drivers, agreeing one price and thwn changing there minds when I got to the destination. I wouldn’t mind my policy is to tip well if they are fair but then when one told another I tipped well as he treated me well everyone expected it. Everywhere I went my tuk tuk ride was for an hour. I got used to it after a while. I forgot my phone after letting the tuk tuk driver speak to someone in khmer, luckily it was a cheap one and was charged a $ for him looking after it for me.
I am truly traumatised by my experience and though I stayed away from the pubs and clubs, I ended up being isolated in the school on my own, being left scared by the staff there. I am so sad about it because there is so much going for the country in many respects but education is needed greatly and I cannot forsake my own mental health to go to a place and live like that. Cambodia has suffered a real tragedy, and still in my view has a long way to go. Economic advances are really fantastic and the country is developing well in this respect however socially it still has a long way to go. I went to dine In the dark, a place recommended to stay away from such exploitation I had seen down at the paddy’s Irish bar, I went alone as I had travelled alone and was joined by a staff member who started offering me extras. I was so tearful I left my meal and ran out.
I was talked about criticised and was stolen from, my memory stick with all my work on and money,what I don’t understand is, why wasnt I appreciated and welcomed. Unless you are rough and tough it seems you will not fit in. I don’t think I was hard enough for it and as a first country travelling as a female and then living and working in compete isolation alone, I was not appreciated nor wanted there with constant questions.
Why am I there. The simple answer was to try and do something positive and learn more about the world out there. There was no alteria motive alike some people seem to think but then I agree there are so many people that go there with bad intentions, khmer people have developed a hatred for many foreigners, this is how I feel. I would never recommend taking children here, all I did was cry. At the disabled children walking the streets for money, the elderly and disabled in wheelchairs, the sad sad history. I will never forget and hope one day this country and it’s people will be saved.
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What sort of semi-literate retard writes shite like that?
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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$180,000 ransom in connection with a teacher, is that ISiS taking charge of a TEFL Olympic Stadium conference.
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Priceless!There was no alteria motive alike some people seem to think
I can't begin to imagine the abuse she'd have received, rightly so, had she landed on 440.
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She wasn't cut out for Cambodia. No big deal. Let's no go all "full vladimir" on someones typos.
..and if you disagree with me, you are one billion times WORSE than HITLER!!!
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Writing "in sain" and "alteria motive" aren't really typos.Pol Pothead wrote:She wasn't cut out for Cambodia. No big deal. Let's no go all "full vladimir" on someones typos.
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Reading between the lines she wrote, I get the feeling she tried to teach far more then just English. Moralizing, telling people to do things different, showing her disgust about "normal" things, being a complete lost no-no, driven around town, etc. I certainly hope, she does not return. US origin ????gavinmac wrote:Nice comment on the front page this week by a woman who went to Cambodia to teach English but was driven "in sain."
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This seems to be the current mindset (or maybe it's been like this for awhile and I've just been noticing it more and more because of the interwebs): "I've always been told that I'm special. I have lot's of participation trophies and certificates proving it. My high school and college diplomas show that I'm intelligent. My 200000000 Facebook/Twitter/blog/whateverelseispopularnowchat followers are constantly telling me that I'm beautiful, witty, wise, interesting, and they envy my life. So why the fuck don't these stupid nose-picking spitting constant-crotch-scratching wall-peeing lying scamming cheating leering paint-splattering braind-dead knuckle-dragging twatflannel stinky noisy little brown monkey-people appreciate my trying to change them to be just like me? I know I'm smart, but I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY I'M NOT APPRECIATED!"...I am truly traumatised by my experience and though I stayed away from the pubs and clubs, I ended up being isolated in the school on my own, being left scared by the staff there. I am so sad about it because there is so much going for the country in many respects but education is needed greatly and I cannot forsake my own mental health to go to a place and live like that...
...what I don’t understand is, why wasnt I appreciated and welcomed... I was not appreciated nor wanted there with constant questions.
At least this one has realized that there is a disconnect. Maybe she will someday truly understand "that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself." Probably not. No attention in that. Is it beer-o'clock yet?
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