BBC article about expat life in Phnom Penh
BBC article about expat life in Phnom Penh
From the BBC. Phnom Penh is apparently undergoing an image over-haul.
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/201610 ... al-history
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/201610 ... al-history
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Critical Crime Rating. The same as Somalia and South Africa. Seems reasonable....
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Well, nothing stays the same and it seems inevitable that, not long after word gets out and a place becomes popular, a bunch of people move in and "improve" it by destroying its charms.
I'm all for progress and development but it's the commercialization of everything that ruins it and this Western obsession of trying to replace authenticity with artifcial "cool" and trendiness.
I may be wrong but it seems to me that the hippies and the generations immeidately following them tried to blend in/go native/preserve the vibe, but today's hipsters show up and start opening juice bars and bringing in "DJs" and fire-spinning shows and yoga studios and tattoo/piercing shops, etc. The local kids are guilty, too, of course.
I don't know. Maybe they all watch too much TV?
I'm all for progress and development but it's the commercialization of everything that ruins it and this Western obsession of trying to replace authenticity with artifcial "cool" and trendiness.
I may be wrong but it seems to me that the hippies and the generations immeidately following them tried to blend in/go native/preserve the vibe, but today's hipsters show up and start opening juice bars and bringing in "DJs" and fire-spinning shows and yoga studios and tattoo/piercing shops, etc. The local kids are guilty, too, of course.
I don't know. Maybe they all watch too much TV?
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They don't watch enough TV, they are all addicted to interwebz.sigmoid wrote:
I don't know. Maybe they all watch too much TV?
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All the coffee and fast food chains down the BKK1 end of St 51 and St 57 make it so generic and boring. There were already three Brown Coffees, a White Coffee, a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, a Caffe Bene, a Gloria Jeans and a Costa Coffee down here and now there's a bloody Starbucks as well. Enough!sigmoid wrote: I'm all for progress and development but it's the commercialization of everything that ruins it and this Western obsession of trying to replace authenticity with artifcial "cool" and trendiness.
Can't I just get a tall black with a huge glob of condensed milk in the bottom, please? At a tiny fraction of the price?
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welcome to globalisation
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Ahh it's pathetic. In Australia the TV news repeatedly gets all excited because some stupid international brand (e.g. Zara, Top Shop, Microsoft, M&S etc) announced they would open a store in Sydney. It's like, "oh wow, look how important we are that they want to open a store here". Just sad.bolueeleh wrote:welcome to globalisation
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But Footscray in Melbourne has Olympic Doughnutstimmydownawell wrote:Ahh it's pathetic. In Australia the TV news repeatedly gets all excited because some stupid international brand (e.g. Zara, Top Shop, Microsoft, M&S etc) announced they would open a store in Sydney. It's like, "oh wow, look how important we are that they want to open a store here". Just sad.bolueeleh wrote:welcome to globalisation
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haha footscray is a beautiful place lolKuroneko wrote:But Footscray in Melbourne has Olympic Doughnutstimmydownawell wrote:Ahh it's pathetic. In Australia the TV news repeatedly gets all excited because some stupid international brand (e.g. Zara, Top Shop, Microsoft, M&S etc) announced they would open a store in Sydney. It's like, "oh wow, look how important we are that they want to open a store here". Just sad.bolueeleh wrote:welcome to globalisation
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