If you could do it all over again.
- David Stearn
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If you could do it all over again.
My life is ripe for adventure, but the world is an ever-changing place. Y'all chose Cambodia for a reason, and I think some of these do not exist anymore. My question is this. If you could do it all over again, would you still choose KOW? If not, then where, and why? Merci Bocoup.
Please don't throw me in that briar patch!
Venezuela. Opportunity to do mobile money, ancient temples & Miss Venezuela.
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
- spitthedog
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The Cayman Islands or Barbados, as very similar to...''The Most Baayuuteeful Bay in da World''.
"I don't care what the people are thinking, i ain't drunk i'm just drinking"
Nope.
Apart from I’d buy more land earlier.
Apart from I’d buy more land earlier.
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- violet
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Asking about doing it all over again implies going back in time rather than just choosing anew now.
I am always open to new, despite what I tell my friends. I am not going back though. Nor am I looking for another option. As always, decisions will be made on a whim when opportunities present themselves.
I am always open to new, despite what I tell my friends. I am not going back though. Nor am I looking for another option. As always, decisions will be made on a whim when opportunities present themselves.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
- Plutarch
Would definately stay in BKK for good...Visiting here is great but living here is another story...Most guys I know prefer Cambodia though
I'd maybe stay a bachelor, but would maybe be dead by now.
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- David Stearn
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Why?patcan wrote:Would definately stay in BKK for good...Visiting here is great but living here is another story...Most guys I know prefer Cambodia though
Please don't throw me in that briar patch!
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Why don't you go to Myanmar with Simon, have you ever thought about that option?violet wrote:Asking about doing it all over again implies going back in time rather than just choosing anew now.
I am always open to new, despite what I tell my friends. I am not going back though. Nor am I looking for another option. As always, decisions will be made on a whim when opportunities present themselves.
Please don't throw me in that briar patch!
I arrived here 5 years ago today. Never regretted the decision, wouldn't change it. My kind of place - I LIKE Phnom Penh.
I don't regret coming here 6 years ago, but I do feel like I came at the end of an era and I don't think I'd be as inclined to stay if I stepped off a plane today.
I'm of a wave of expats who, for whatever reason, tried to put as much distance as possible between ourselves and the coiffed, predictable lifestyles of organized home countries.The dark features that attracted me to this country; the grit, the lawlessness, the innovation, the self-reliance...and the privilege of pedaling down the street in shorts and sandals and still being treated like royalty because I'm white and therefore assumed to be rich...those features are eroding in wake of economic development and access to credit when even the guy next door making $200/month is honking at you behind the wheel of his Camry. Putting aside questions of the long-term reliability of Chinese money, Cambodia is globalizing and that may be a great thing for Cambodia, but I don't quite know where I fit here among the luxury brands, fast food chains and smartphone culture. I think an aspect of living in Cambodia that has always appealed to me - that it's easy to be yourself because Cambodians don't expect you to conform to their norms - has been because Cambodia's soul has always been up for sale to the highest bidder. The highest bidder used to be white social misfits and underachievers living on $1000/month, but there's a new player in town with different priorities, and Cambodians' attention and loyalties are shifting accordingly. Appearance over quality. Augment reality with borrowed money.
Money. Money. More money.
Shorts and sandals don't really cut it anymore, not in Phnom Penh, anyway. For the first time I'm starting to feel pressure to compete on their level in their value system and I don't like it. I think my clock is ticking.
I'm of a wave of expats who, for whatever reason, tried to put as much distance as possible between ourselves and the coiffed, predictable lifestyles of organized home countries.The dark features that attracted me to this country; the grit, the lawlessness, the innovation, the self-reliance...and the privilege of pedaling down the street in shorts and sandals and still being treated like royalty because I'm white and therefore assumed to be rich...those features are eroding in wake of economic development and access to credit when even the guy next door making $200/month is honking at you behind the wheel of his Camry. Putting aside questions of the long-term reliability of Chinese money, Cambodia is globalizing and that may be a great thing for Cambodia, but I don't quite know where I fit here among the luxury brands, fast food chains and smartphone culture. I think an aspect of living in Cambodia that has always appealed to me - that it's easy to be yourself because Cambodians don't expect you to conform to their norms - has been because Cambodia's soul has always been up for sale to the highest bidder. The highest bidder used to be white social misfits and underachievers living on $1000/month, but there's a new player in town with different priorities, and Cambodians' attention and loyalties are shifting accordingly. Appearance over quality. Augment reality with borrowed money.
Money. Money. More money.
Shorts and sandals don't really cut it anymore, not in Phnom Penh, anyway. For the first time I'm starting to feel pressure to compete on their level in their value system and I don't like it. I think my clock is ticking.
PP is a small part of Cambodia. Go to any small town/village and you’ll be viewed as you’ve described.
Any big city in any country is a caricature of the good and bad.
I go to my wife’s village in and get stared at and get lots of attention even in 2018. But I am damn handsum.
Any big city in any country is a caricature of the good and bad.
I go to my wife’s village in and get stared at and get lots of attention even in 2018. But I am damn handsum.
pew, pew, pew, pew!
^ this, me too.pedros wrote:I'd maybe stay a bachelor, but would maybe be dead by now.
Behind any good man is a good woman.
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- violet
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I have considered Myanmar. Mostly because there seems to be a handful of people that keep suggesting I go there, Laos or Vietnam. It seems 'anywhere but here'. I do not know their motivation for seemingly wanting me out of here and somewhere else in SE Asia.David Stearn wrote:Why don't you go to Myanmar with Simon, have you ever thought about that option?violet wrote:Asking about doing it all over again implies going back in time rather than just choosing anew now.
I am always open to new, despite what I tell my friends. I am not going back though. Nor am I looking for another option. As always, decisions will be made on a whim when opportunities present themselves.
As for 'with Simon'. That is an odd suggestion and, no, I have never thought of going to Myanmar with Simon. I am reasonably sure Simon is not my type.
Don't take my post the wrong way. I was not inviting suggestions. Now, if you have opportunities to discuss, that is a different matter.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
- Plutarch