The French have a longer history with this place than anyone (apart from the Chinese) so they will always be around - Shrugging their shoulders, smoking those poncy cigarettes, eating pastry, drinking Pastis, kissing cheeks and generally being annoying.Barang_doa_slae wrote:Not all tho, the remaining older French drunk crowd on the hill, many of whom were kicked out many times already are way more realistic regarding Sihanoukville future even if one could argue their fatalistic nature put them at an advantage.YaTingPom wrote:You’ll find there’s a correlation between people who’ve been kicked out of accommodation/screwed over on their lease/lost their fav’ drinking hole/have a limited income and the people who hope the bubble (which hasn’t even started) pops and all the Chinese leaving in the incorrect belief it’ll all go back to pre 2015 times. The good old days etc.
As for old Mariner he just thrives in conspiracy theories.
If that French coffee place (next to the gas station) is anything to go by they’ll be here long after the Chinese are gone.