Fair go,chaps.He is not that far off the mark,is he? And full points for the sunny country for shady characters line.
I am sure we all know of shady types who drift through the kingdom,the place would be boring without them.I have known one convicted pedo,one electrician turned killer,a french garage proprieter breaking bad and robbing a bank.
Then there was the other pirate.
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Yeah, I'm not that familiar with his work, so maybe I didn't need to trash him *quite* that badly, but that was my immediate reaction to reading that article. That the guy should know better, and probably does know better, so he's intentionally misleading people because it makes for a better read back home. Bleh.LTO wrote:Terrible article by Luke Hunt. Supermarket tabloid trash by an otherwise informed and insightful reporter. Shameful, really.
It is pretty far off the mark. I've met some "questionable" people here, but I've met a lot lot lot more people who weren't anything like "hardened criminals or sexual predators," more like eccentrics and creative types, or young idealists working for NGOs, or older guys who've realized how much further their retirement or vacation funds are going to go here (and how much younger they feel at the same time, I feel 10 years younger and I'm only 35).ken svay wrote:Fair go,chaps.He is not that far off the mark,is he? And full points for the sunny country for shady characters line.
I am sure we all know of shady types who drift through the kingdom,the place would be boring without them.I have known one convicted pedo,one electrician turned killer,a french garage proprieter breaking bad and robbing a bank.
Then there was the other pirate.
Career criminals and drug addicts? No, few to none of the former and only slightly higher population of the latter. Not more of them than I've met in America, per capita, that's for sure. Maybe they're easier to spot here for some reason, less likely to hide it. The fact is, wherever you have poverty you have marginal people engaging in marginal behaviors. Cambodia is very poor and very marginal.
I guess if you've known plenty of "shady characters" back home, meeting a few of them here (in the developing world) doesn't strike you as very odd or unusual.
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