I doubt it's a higher percentage in Cambo than in the West. The expat community is small so you just notice more of them dropping off like flies.
Of course, excessive drinking, smoking and relationships with women of varying degrees of craziness doesn't help either. (oh now now, I'm just joking)
Cambodia Can Seriously Damage Your Expat Health
andyinasia, I see it all now. So you were pulling my leg, good one.
Wonderful post, bar one. There are many reasons people flee in droves from the West. I'm still in it, but hope to get out shortly. I have suffered the insecurity of Western upbringing, wasted youth and now the boredom of middle age, but am happy and more fulfilled when in the East. Everyday here I groan along with Hamlet
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on it! ah fie! 'My life is like an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
Wonderful post, bar one. There are many reasons people flee in droves from the West. I'm still in it, but hope to get out shortly. I have suffered the insecurity of Western upbringing, wasted youth and now the boredom of middle age, but am happy and more fulfilled when in the East. Everyday here I groan along with Hamlet
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on it! ah fie! 'My life is like an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
I have to believe the middle aged expats who come to Cambodia are a very self selecting group who are are there for very specific reasons. Others might choose the south of France, the Caribean, or some other less strenuous locale. I would think the ones who choose Cambodia tend to be the ones most likely to lead the debaucherous lifestyle that leads to their early demise. Used to be a time when they just bought expensive, flashy, sportcars.
You seem to have mixed up two very different demographic groups. The guys who buy sports cars in the West usually suffer anxiety attacks when forced to mingle out of their social groups. I was totally out of the US pop culture loop a while back when I had to pop into the Apple store for some software. Unfortunately, I picked the very day they released the iphone. Shit out of luck. No way was I going to get near the store with the line winding several blocks outside of the mall. They even had celebs and TV coverage. So I bought myself a coffee and proceeded to drive out of the mall when this freak drove up next to me in some sort of Merecedes Coupe type car and began honking to get my attention. He was all giddy like a bar girl who just received a mobil phone for her birthday.PhilipG wrote:Used to be a time when they just bought expensive, flashy, sportcars.
I thought he wanted to race ala bored high school teenagers peeling out in big brothers' mustangs but no. The freak holds up his iphone box and shines at me as if to say, "Look at me! Look at me! I got an iphone!" Holy shit, the guy must have been at least 30 years old. Anyhow, these guys tend to live a good long while. Their lives are constant seesaws of work and reward. They go out and find weird ass backward shit to be happy about all their lives.
Some plastic crap to glue to the back of their sports car . . . Yahhhh baby! Any jewelery . . .look at that shine! Watches. . . .(It doesn't count unless it's over 10k) Check my time 10 times in 1 hour! Club Med vacation to show all that stuff off. Hang out at the garage after work to get giddy merely thinking about showing off.
I don't think I've ever met expats like that. Well, no . . . chicks still get giddy over phones and bags and glittery crap but that's practically a job description for them.
If I hadn't have left when I did I would've been dead before the year was out. I've been pretty lucky not to die in a few differnet countries but Cambodia offered me too many irrefusable risks. Maybe I'm a stronger man now, maybe not. Respect to those who can handle themselves out there.
Having said that, there are some who behave far too responsibly, Bubble_T etc. Makes you wonder why they don't fuck off to Singapore.
Having said that, there are some who behave far too responsibly, Bubble_T etc. Makes you wonder why they don't fuck off to Singapore.
Interesting thread ,especialy as I live in a country where many people come to live out the mid life fantasies .Believe you me ,the coast of Spain is littered with burnt out people ,many of them killing themselves off with drink ,and lots of younger people as well .Thank God I live in the mountains ,and do not have to confront the middle aged teenagers ,or retired teenagers with lethal sportscars .People here tend to turn a blind eye to exentric and self destructive behaviour .Why do I want to livein Cambo .To achieve a sense of lunacy now sadly missing in the west .Plus my money will go a lot further and stop paying for bricks and mortar ,to leave to my kids Havng said that ,I really do not want to live in the same place all the time
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