Why are you still in Cambodia?
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I'm still looking for evidence of medieval dinosaurs, portals into parallel universes, evidence of ancient cataclysms and the subsequent re-programming of the human race. It's keeping me quite busy.
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Exactly. MD and migs are both suffering from a 'Scobienz Complex'. Hell, they'll be on about watch winders next.pedros wrote:Nonsense. You used to be a regular drinker at Queeley's, which was stuffed to it's low hanging rafters with English teachers.Mèo Đen wrote:
Whats this preoccupation with teaching English, I have been here over 20 years and I think I have only come across two or three English teachers the whole time. Concerning NGO's the number is even less. I did know one, a Filipino lady that was running a NGO back in 1996.
What leads you to think Cambodia is over is beyond me, it's streets ahead of what it was like in 1996.
Regarding the question "Why are you still in Cambodia?" Because I like the place, if I didn't i'd go and live somewhere else.
In answer to the OP, there are several reasons. Employed by overseas company and transfer has been refused. Lost passport / never bothered to renew their visas etc, so stuck here. But in the majority by far are the married with kids lot. Then you are really stuck here if you can't afford to leave or the Mrs refuses to go.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Ps . there's always the phycologists angle which states that Cambodia has a way of undermining the very essence of the expat self,which results in a severe lack of belief in oneself. Migs hasn't been here long enough yet to comment on that one.
One can fly then,bus spend a day in Pattaya , Fly PP to Bangkok 7',30am, arrive Bangkok 8,35..an hour messing around at arrival, 1 and a half hour taxi to Pattaya- spend a couple or five hours 'shopping' for roid's and kamagra and a massage, taxi back to airport last flight 8,30pm. Home by 11 pm.
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It should be taken into account that the OP is writing from the perspective of a TEFL jobber who worked at some shithole like ELT and lived at the poxy lake, no doubt due to the easy availability of drugs. He also married a hooker and brought her to the US. It wonder what lies about her background he put on the immigration forms? Considering he's such a fan of Trump's policies it would be interesting to find out what ICE would make of this. Isn't it a felony to lie on immigration forms? No wonder he's got such a dismal opinion of Cambodia when he made such a fucking disaster of things here. Good riddance to the tosser anyway, his opinion isn't worth shit.
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You don’t know shit about me or my ex wife, stop spreading lies and slandering me and her.Lucky Lucan wrote:It should be taken into account that the OP is writing from the perspective of a TEFL jobber who worked at some shithole like ELT and lived at the poxy lake, no doubt due to the easy availability of drugs. He also married a hooker and brought her to the US. It wonder what lies about her background he put on the immigration forms? Considering he's such a fan of Trump's policies it would be interesting to find out what ICE would make of this. Isn't it a felony to lie on immigration forms? No wonder he's got such a dismal opinion of Cambodia when he made such a fucking disaster of things here. Good riddance to the tosser anyway, his opinion isn't worth shit.
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I don't know shit about you either but I wouldn't mind betting Lucan isn't far off the mark.
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TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
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Free speech, snowflake. You got dumped by a third world hooker. No joke.fantasticplanet wrote:You don’t know shit about me or my ex wife, stop spreading lies and slandering me and her.Lucky Lucan wrote:It should be taken into account that the OP is writing from the perspective of a TEFL jobber who worked at some shithole like ELT and lived at the poxy lake, no doubt due to the easy availability of drugs. He also married a hooker and brought her to the US. It wonder what lies about her background he put on the immigration forms? Considering he's such a fan of Trump's policies it would be interesting to find out what ICE would make of this. Isn't it a felony to lie on immigration forms? No wonder he's got such a dismal opinion of Cambodia when he made such a fucking disaster of things here. Good riddance to the tosser anyway, his opinion isn't worth shit.
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Well he pretty much told us as much himself, and some of his old acquaintances filled in some gaps.slavedog wrote:I don't know shit about you either but I wouldn't mind betting Lucan isn't far off the mark.
fantasticplanet wrote:Dude, no contest, Filipina. I have an 11 year old son with my Cambodian ex. While we were in Cambodia, she gambled all my money away and then threatened to kill the baby and periodically disappeared with him to get her way. I barely managed to get out of the country with him because I had taken care of all his paperwork. Despite this, I later got her a visa and she came to America. She stayed with us for about 6 months before disappearing. We got legally divorced in America in 2014. And yes, she wasn’t no ‘good girl ‘. I was on Asiandating.com last year and started taking to a nice enough Cambodian ‘good girl ‘ but she needed $10,000 to marry her!
Then I started looking at Filipinas. I got lots of interest, and they weren’t hookers either. I eventually narrowed it down to one and then flew over there to spend time with her. We stayed together for a month and it was just wonderful. I am 45, she’s 33, she’s a widow with 4 kids, I am divorced with just the 1, but it is the kiss of death with American women, they don’t want anything to do with another woman ‘s baby. And of course she’s much better looking than me too, but I am still really appreciated and treated with respect. After living in Cambodia, China, and America, the Philippines was just amazing. People are just genuinely friendly and kind there. It was just what I needed after the cultural warfare of the 2016 election. Now I am in the process of getting visas for her and her kids. Should be by the end of the summer. Simple choice-live in peace, harmony, and love with a Christian Filipina or be exploited and abused by one of the daughters of Pol Pot.
fantasticplanet wrote:The bottom line is, whatever nationality of SE Asian bride you choose, don’t choose a hooker. And that is really the most important advice we can give this guy if he is a SE Asia newbie. To be honest, the $10,000 dowry was what pushed me into making that very bad decision in the past, but no more. My Filipina girl is a housewife, she was before her old man died, then she was dependent on overseas relatives, and then me. I am in contact with her through Facebook everyday. She is a church going, practicing Catholic. Snoop Dogg said it best, you can’t make a ho a housewife. But seriously, although the environment and the people bear superficial resemblances between Cambodia and the Philippines, they couldn’t be more different as people. Cambodians, like mainland Chinese, are deeply traumatized by communism, and are just not people that I choose to have in my life anymore. I wish them the best, but they are all dangerous. These are low trust societies, where everyone is backstabbing each other all the time. Philippines really wasn’t like that for me at all last summer. I have the highest opinion of them.
Peaceman wrote:Now lets consider the personal hypocrisy. You tell us you helped your son';s mother, a Cambodian bar girl, to immigrate to the US where she now lives, and now you intend to do the same to a Philippina girl who you met online. So that is two people you have helped immigrate to the US. At the same time you are applauding a President who is so hard line on immigration that he is tearing children from the arms of their mothers and locking them in cages. A President who wants to build a wall across the Southern border and who has smeared immigrants as rapists and criminals. Do you not see the hypocrisy here , You imported a Cambodian prostitute to live in the US and yet you support a President who is literally ripping immigrant families apart at the border.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
It will be of great surprise when the yank with little to no connection to Cambodia decides to storm off the forum in a huff and puff.
And nothing of value will be lost... Make Cambodia forums great again! I’m gonna build a wall and make him pay.
And nothing of value will be lost... Make Cambodia forums great again! I’m gonna build a wall and make him pay.
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The day that TEFL Jobbers become a protected class on 440 will be the day that I finally bother to find out where our IT Dept is and set fire to the whole bloody server room.Miguelito wrote: ... Can we still make fun of TEFLers or are they a protected class now?
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The day that TEFL Jobbers become a protected class on 440 will be the day that I finally bother to find out where our IT Dept is and set fire to the whole bloody server room.Miguelito wrote: ... Can we still make fun of TEFLers or are they a protected class now?
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OP has a good point.
Why are they still in KoW?
Living of bor bor and 2000 riel beer in unbearable heat hardly seems fun
Cambodia isnt the same cambodia, perhaps a great place for gambling addict chinese and methy scammy types.
Why are they still in KoW?
Living of bor bor and 2000 riel beer in unbearable heat hardly seems fun
Cambodia isnt the same cambodia, perhaps a great place for gambling addict chinese and methy scammy types.
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