I have the feeling this is only the beginning. How much are they going to charge you per month to water the garden in the middle of the road?
Roadside robbery in Kep
Looks to me, you are getting a nice through-road in front of your property......... Plan your business.ricecakes wrote: ↑Mon Nov 30, 2020 4:35 amGot a call last night from our neighbour. The machines have started rolling through and have scraped one of our blocks arleady and looks like we are losing 5-6m off each frontage. He says they want a 20m wide strip so they can do a dual lane with garden bed in the middle just like the main road that runs into kep . I mean fuck me dead yeah that make sense on a rural backroad.
and.....
Everyone has had to pay $50 per property for the privelage of having our front fences removed . I am told this means rolling up the cyclone wire we used and "storing" the gates for re-use.
HOWEVER, I am thiking it will not be a bad thing for the property value as Older French Khmer return to Kep cashed up and Chinese keep invading. The blocks are still large and level with mature trees, power, views and now a 25 lane AutoLexusBahn right at the front.......
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It now appears that over the last week there have been a string of actual robberies on the "Kep road" leading out of Kampot, centered around the Salt Worker's roundabout. Seems to be a nightly occurrence of three Cambodian men violently attacking both men and women and attempting (and succeeding in some cases) to rob them.
Maybe.,...but i kind of liked it when it was quiet,
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Yep, I understand. As such, my "........." in the reply
I now have much better intel on what is happening.
Seems there is a plan for the hinterland area. Concrete roads and "scenic" loops are going to happen imminently .
See below in organge for targeted roads for anyone that knows the area well. ( and where our blocks are in red )
Interestingly when we bought the first blocks of land in 2008 i told my wife we should be buying as much as we could in "the hinterland" because one day Kep would explode. We are only 3 kms from the ocean / 5 mins to crab shacks after all. We did have a massive price spurt in the area around 2018 ( eg last block we paid $12k for 26 x 40m and got offered $40k just before C19 hit ) ) . Some 12 years later.....seems explosion MK2 is about to happen . If it wasn't for C19 and travel hassles i would probably come back for 2 weeks and scout some more land out.
Not sure who the big buyers are going to be but i stick to my theory about one major group being returning retired French Khmer with bulk $Euros looking for their final resting place back under the Cambodian sun. Kep holds the French history etc.
Interesting times.....
Seems there is a plan for the hinterland area. Concrete roads and "scenic" loops are going to happen imminently .
See below in organge for targeted roads for anyone that knows the area well. ( and where our blocks are in red )
Interestingly when we bought the first blocks of land in 2008 i told my wife we should be buying as much as we could in "the hinterland" because one day Kep would explode. We are only 3 kms from the ocean / 5 mins to crab shacks after all. We did have a massive price spurt in the area around 2018 ( eg last block we paid $12k for 26 x 40m and got offered $40k just before C19 hit ) ) . Some 12 years later.....seems explosion MK2 is about to happen . If it wasn't for C19 and travel hassles i would probably come back for 2 weeks and scout some more land out.
Not sure who the big buyers are going to be but i stick to my theory about one major group being returning retired French Khmer with bulk $Euros looking for their final resting place back under the Cambodian sun. Kep holds the French history etc.
Interesting times.....
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ricecakes wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 5:06 am
Gates and tree.......going going .....
Perhaps they took one look at your beautiful tree and decided in order to chop it down they need to make a 747 runway. So be it. Basically, these giant roads like the ones they did in Siem reap, are "the bigger the better" the contractors are all relatives of the politicians, who are winning these bids of course.