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- spitthedog
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I think it's no exaggeration to say that 95%+ of all large apartment blocks in SHV have been renovated and leased out to the casino operators as they come in and pay 3x what the whities do. If it's got a new paint job and has minivans parked outside you know it's been taken. And most have been taken and filled with casino workers.
Many khmer's are having to go more on the outskirts to find a place now.
You only have to look at the home for rent signs in Chinese all over town to know that they are paying well over the top. There looks to be khmer places which are just sitting there empty waiting for the casinos to come along.
We used to be like...important and shit. Even in flip flops. Now we are only just above the yuon in status.
Many khmer's are having to go more on the outskirts to find a place now.
You only have to look at the home for rent signs in Chinese all over town to know that they are paying well over the top. There looks to be khmer places which are just sitting there empty waiting for the casinos to come along.
We used to be like...important and shit. Even in flip flops. Now we are only just above the yuon in status.
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- MerkinMaker
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The whole thing is extremely precarious. There is no interest in the long term economic fundamentals of Cambodia, the Chinese "businessmen" are only her to circumnavigate financial and business regulations at home in regards to the movement of currency. If those regulations change at home, or a better loopholes arise elsewhere, they will leave just as quickly as they came.
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It’s more expensive to open a business in New York or San Francisco because the cost of living is higher there. For one thing, rents and property values are a lot higher because everyone wants to live there. And one of the main reasons why everyone wants to live there is because they can be financially successful there.son of vladimir wrote:
It's expensive to start a small business like a restaurant: do you deny that?
How much capital would you need in NY or LA compared with Bangkok or Phnom Penh? So what percentage of people could afford it in both countries? Pretty sure in SE Asia, more than 50%...
Boat people/illegal immigrants choose the nearest land mass which won't be too stringent in repatriating them...kind of difficult for a Cuban/Mexican to head to Scandinavia...
Also, opening a business is more expensive in the USA because we have regulations that restrict businesses for the betterment of society as a whole. You have to open your place somewhere zoned for it, you can’t pull a Ned and start a punk rock venue in your apartment or in an office building.
You can’t rent a space for your bar and then do all the electrical wiring yourself unless you’re a licensed electrician. You can’t hire your 8 year old nephew to work there for 5 cents an hour like you can in Cambodia.
Unlike in Cambodia, when you build your business space out, you have to install proper fire exits, handrails, and wheelchair ramps and buy insurance to compensate people injured on your premises. You have to pay for a license to sell alcohol which involves a background check and the revocation of that license if you serve booze to children or to drunk people who might then drive off and kill someone. You can’t blast music at 4 a.m. to attract customers to your bar, you can’t dump your business’ garbage and waste in the street or wherever you want.
Sure complying with all these regulations in Western countries increases business start up costs. If you believe that society is better when businesses can operate on a shoestring and cut corners and start up as cheaply as possible with no obligations to anyone that may restrict their pursuit of profit, then that’s the position of an extreme Republican and I’m surprised to hear it from you.
But I don’t think that really is your argument. I think you just instinctively spew that anything that costs more money is bad and sometimes you don’t think it through at all.
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gavinmac wrote:It’s more expensive to open a business in New York or San Francisco because the cost of living is higher there. For one thing, rents and property values are a lot higher because everyone wants to live there. And one of the main reasons why everyone wants to live there is because they can be financially successful there.son of vladimir wrote:
It's expensive to start a small business like a restaurant: do you deny that?
How much capital would you need in NY or LA compared with Bangkok or Phnom Penh? So what percentage of people could afford it in both countries? Pretty sure in SE Asia, more than 50%...
Boat people/illegal immigrants choose the nearest land mass which won't be too stringent in repatriating them...kind of difficult for a Cuban/Mexican to head to Scandinavia...
Also, opening a business is more expensive in the USA because we have regulations that restrict businesses for the betterment of society as a whole. You have to open your place somewhere zoned for it, you can’t pull a Ned and start a punk rock venue in your apartment or in an office building.
You can’t rent a space for your bar and then do all the electrical wiring yourself unless you’re a licensed electrician. You can’t hire your 8 year old nephew to work there for 5 cents an hour like you can in Cambodia.
Unlike in Cambodia, when you build your business space out, you have to install proper fire exits, handrails, and wheelchair ramps and buy insurance to compensate people injured on your premises. You have to pay for a license to sell alcohol which involves a background check and the revocation of that license if you serve booze to children or to drunk people who might then drive off and kill someone. You can’t blast music at 4 a.m. to attract customers to your bar, you can’t dump your business’ garbage and waste in the street or wherever you want.
Sure complying with all these regulations in Western countries increases business start up costs. If you believe that society is better when businesses can operate on a shoestring and cut corners and start up as cheaply as possible with no obligations to anyone that may restrict their pursuit of profit, then that’s the position of an extreme Republican and I’m surprised to hear it from you.
But I don’t think that really is your argument. I think you just instinctively spew that anything that costs more money is bad and sometimes you don’t think it through at all.
Perhaps, but I think you could say the same about many western countries, just the way variesson of vladimir wrote:Yobbo wrote:Hmmm, Cambodians have a history of being fu%ked over by their own people
This i agree!
But at least it can build a political platform from which an opposition can stand upon.
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That was a brilliant burn of Vladimir by GM.
Vlad is also talking nonsense about buying a house in the U.K. The average house price is around £260000 and most banks are now giving mortgages of 90-95% at historically low repayment levels.
If people don't have the discipline to save as little as £13000 and want to waste money instead on iPhones, Starbucks and eating out that is their choice.
Buying a house has historically been the single biggest wealth created in the U.K. for the ordinary man in the street.
Vlad is also talking nonsense about buying a house in the U.K. The average house price is around £260000 and most banks are now giving mortgages of 90-95% at historically low repayment levels.
If people don't have the discipline to save as little as £13000 and want to waste money instead on iPhones, Starbucks and eating out that is their choice.
Buying a house has historically been the single biggest wealth created in the U.K. for the ordinary man in the street.
Well I won't descend to your level, but I've been translating at ASEAN conference for eight years now, also CAEXPO.Edwardo wrote:Ah, it was at an ASEAN meeting just 6 months that the official policy was written proclaiming "The Chinese are coming" was it?Pu Li wrote:Good for you squire.Edwardo wrote:Warned us a whole 6 months ago did ya? A regular Nostradamus you are. Most of us saw this trend developing many years ago. It's been pretty fucking obvious.Pu Li wrote:I did warn you six months ago.
I translated one of the meetings. Like it or lump it, the Chinese are coming.
But you weren't at the Asean meeting watching policy being written were you? Or I'm sure we'd have met, then you could have told me how clever you are.
So do tell what happens next?
What happens next is you continue being a fucking prat with nothing to add yet lamely pretending to be "in the know". Now regale us with more keen-eyed insider information from 6 months ago of things that have been obviously occurring for years.
It was September 2016 when the Visa policy was discussed, and February this year when it started to take effect.
Revel in your ignorance and belligerence, as you are ejected from Cambodia.
And swear and offer abuse as Cambodia is bought up by the Chinese, and wonder why the opposition party has been taken down, and all those NGO's are more strictly regulated.
Really, it's impossible to educate pork.
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To struggling people (a lot in Cambodia) anything that costs more money is a problem.gavinmac wrote:But I don’t think that really is your argument. I think you just instinctively spew that anything that costs more money is bad and sometimes you don’t think it through at all.
For many yanks, it's also a problem.
Could you afford to open a restaurant in New York?
I understand why it's expensive with all the regulations. The question is, are they all necessary, and do they benefit the majority of the people, or are they part of a legalised way of milking people?
There's an inherent contradiction in your argument: you laud the safety regulations in NY, and the Labour Laws, but you choose to visit Cambodia and other developing countries often. But I guess that's because the US is cheaper for the service industry and cashiers, right? iirc, you were whining about a kleptocracy, but your (fake) moral indignation doesn't seem to extend to boycotting anything, right?
You had a go at me for complaining that a hotelier and a few other people in Koh Kong tried to scam me on holiday. I realise that as an ex- casino lawyer you are more tolerant of scammers, but for most of us, it puts us off. You on the other hand, would probably feel like you were back at work.
re: housing: I guess the Financial Times and Lloyds Banking have crap reporters, maybe they need to hire the resident 440 expert, Northern Monkey.
https://www.ft.com/content/ef830e2e-a6e ... 144feab7de
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You said I didn't know what I was talking about, but you didn't bother to even try and argue against a single source I quoted. Try and focus on the sources old chap, several are quite respectable...but hey, you're smarter than all the people who wrote those, right?GMJS-440 wrote:I’m looking at opening a business in the USA, and help with a few other businesses friends of mine own. Vladimir has no fucking clue what he’s talking about.
I hate to say this, but I think you have slightly more cash available than most lower-income groups. Cool the heavy breathing, ego massage is over...
Not sure what 'and help with a few other businesses friends of mine own' means...perhaps it means that you will enter into a multiple-partnership venture? Why not all on your own? Ot mien loi? Too rich for your blood on your lonesome? Doesn't that prove my point?
Where in the US? I think Detroit would be right up your alley.
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son of vladimir wrote:
re: housing: I guess the Financial Times and Lloyds Banking have crap reporters, maybe they need to hire the resident 440 expert, Northern Monkey.
https://www.ft.com/content/ef830e2e-a6e ... 144feab7de
Yes. Housing costs are rising. No one is denying that. Rising housing costs are what creates wealth and it’s been happening since time began - What is your point? Rising housing costs do not mean it is impossible to get onto the property ladder.
They still remain affordable if people are prepared to save for them and do all those tedious things like make sacrifices. And the costs of repaying your mortgage have never been cheaper in history. In fact, if you are able to raise a 5% deposit, owning your own house and servicing the debt is now cheaper than paying rent.
I suspect you have been nowhere near the UK for decades, if ever. You have certainly never attempted to buy a property in the UK. When you express an opinion based on real life experience rather than reading about it online, your opinion might be worth listening to.
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You guys are way off, the Chinese started investing 800 years ago
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It's crass to ask people about how much money they have.son of vladimir wrote: Could you afford to open a restaurant in New York?
Why are you obsessed with trying to attack other posters personally? You made a another bad anti-money argument. I pointed out its flaws. This has nothing to do with teachers or lawyers or accountants or cashiers.son of vladimir wrote: There's an inherent contradiction in your argument: you laud the safety regulations in NY, and the Labour Laws, but you choose to visit Cambodia and other developing countries often. But I guess that's because the US is cheaper for the service industry and cashiers, right? iirc, you were whining about a kleptocracy, but your (fake) moral indignation doesn't seem to extend to boycotting anything, right?
You had a go at me for complaining that a hotelier and a few other people in Koh Kong tried to scam me on holiday. I realise that as an ex- casino lawyer you are more tolerant of scammers, but for most of us, it puts us off. You on the other hand, would probably feel like you were back at work.
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No. It started just 6 months ago, just as Pu Li warned us about. He was there and everything.offshoresports wrote:You guys are way off, the Chinese started investing 800 years ago
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