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HUGE grotesque monstrosity under construction in Kampot...
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Rode through Kampot yesterday... Right beside the Old Bridge, in the long-empty lot fronting the river nestled in the middle of the old downtown, some rich people are beginning to construct a very VERY huge and tall apartment block, looks to be up to 30 or 40 storeys. How sad. Instead, this big empty lot should have been made into a quaint, tree-filled park along the lines of old Carré Saint-Louis in Montreal, Canada. Poor Kampot, it will no longer be pleasant even a little bit with the ugly shadow and traffic jams this misplaced misfit will create...
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"Two tv sets and two Cadillac cars
Well you know it ain't going to help me at all
Nah, my lips just get tighter..."
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HUGE grotesque monstrosity under construction in Kampot...
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Rode through Kampot yesterday... Right beside the Old Bridge, in the long-empty lot fronting the river nestled in the middle of the old downtown, some rich people are beginning to construct a very VERY huge and tall apartment block, looks to be up to 30 or 40 storeys. How sad. Instead, this big empty lot should have been made into a quaint, tree-filled park along the lines of old Carré Saint-Louis in Montreal, Canada. Poor Kampot, it will no longer be pleasant even a little bit with the ugly shadow and traffic jams this misplaced misfit will create...
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"Two tv sets and two Cadillac cars
Well you know it ain't going to help me at all
Nah, my lips just get tighter..."
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"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
...Hannah Arendt
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I think we all had these dreams at one time of how the old rustic and ravaged Cambodia of old might develop. Unfortunately there isn't much return on parks which need constant maintenance and security. People would be fighting and chopping each other up, what will you do about that?..........some rich people are beginning to construct a very VERY huge and tall apartment block, looks to be up to 30 or 40 storeys. How sad. Instead, this big empty lot should have been made into a quaint, tree-filled park along the lines of old Carré Saint-Louis in Montreal, Canada.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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Well, mmmm, I think it is okay to build a tall building, but not in that particular location adjacent to the old town and bridge... They could place the condo a kilometer or two up river, just out of town... It is going to be SO BIG -- it is really really in the wrong place... (And a park costs little to maintain. Security in Kampot? Well, that is not really an issue right now.)Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:37 amI think we all had these dreams at one time of how the old rustic and ravaged Cambodia of old might develop. Unfortunately there isn't much return on parks which need constant maintenance and security. People would be fighting and chopping each other up, what will you do about that?..........some rich people are beginning to construct a very VERY huge and tall apartment block, looks to be up to 30 or 40 storeys. How sad. Instead, this big empty lot should have been made into a quaint, tree-filled park along the lines of old Carré Saint-Louis in Montreal, Canada.
My main point is: since in that particular spot, the whole surrounding area consists of the quaint low-rise "old town", then therefore, the only sensible thing to place in that lot is a nice green park with fountain, flowers and big trees ...Then, Kampot would remain lovely. But the local rich are evil and stupid: obviously, infected by Chinese greed, the local Oknhas have not the slightest notion about intelligent urban design. They cannot seem to conceive of an aesthetic or pragmatic plan for even the briefest instant, I regret to observe. Why not place that edifice a couple kilometers up or down the river? You can still have a nice view, and surround the building with a parkland, too... This place is going to be way too big, you would agree with me if you saw it, I am pretty sure: there is a painting of the finished condo on the wall outside... It's very VERY tall, taller than Trump... But of course, the scurvy-ridden officials took a big piece of change to lease that prime land to whichever greedy but stupid hoodlum came up with enough dough for them...
Shhhhhh, they won't announce who they are, or where they live... Same thing as happened in Sihanoukville: police proxies bought and sold most of the land to the idiotic Chinese gangsters who built many small casinos or unfinished hulks, and as you know, most not having proper inside connections have fled a year later... The ex-police chief built a gigantic mansion on the new avenue down to the beach, using the money he got from his nephew's take on large-scale drug importation kick-backs...
A lot of bad stuff happens in government here: when an important council minister wants to fly to Europe on "official" business, his requisition form for the price of the first class ticket is $7,000 dollars. That is a fact: I met a man who used to work in the Ministry of Justice and he quit in disgust at all the graft and nepotism: uneducated nephews and nieces get jobs they have no education to perform in all the ministries, which is one big reason nothing gets done here in Cambodia. Did you know that?
(BTW, you should see, ironically, Prek Treng (Hun Sen) Beach and how lovely it is... It's located near Sihanoukville, after the port about 7 kms northeast of town. There are always three or four ladies raking the evergreen needles off the sand and bundling them up. The water is clean and swimmable, and best of all -- there is nobody there except a few locals now and then, and only a few more on weekends... The back-packers never discovered it, so nobody knows it exists... The ironies of Cambodia are many...)
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Kampot will still look like a quaint low rise town from their balconies so why would they care?
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Yeah, all in Riels, though they also increased pricing on the whole, is my impression (more than the 4050:4200 would imply).
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Considering the riel almost never reaches 4200 this is a great scam to make an extra couple percent off of every purchase. Should be boycotted the fuckers.
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I stopped going to Lucky Market two years ago since they it is invaded by the ill mannered Chinese. I like to go to Bayon Market or Super Duper.
Super Duper has also been invaded, late nights and early mornings especially: very loud tipsy Chinese
It's like Vietnam all over again
It's like Vietnam all over again
You can still pay in $ and get 4200 riel for your $. Buy something for about $1, pay with a $10 bill, ask for the change in riel, hey presto you've changed $9 into riel at a rate of 4200 to use elsewhere
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Why the hell would you ask for change in riel if you know you will be burned on the exchange?
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