How is what they are describing different than Phnom Penh, Kampot, Kep, Siem Reap, Koh Rong, Kampong Cham, etc., on and on? When it all becomes too disgusting for even the Chinese, then what happens? Seems no one has asked the Cambodian people what they want? Becasue they will be left with the bill to be paid.

It's so sad to know that SHV has come to this.

When I lived there in 94, 95, part of 96 it was stunningly beautiful and peaceful and quiet. Otres beach was so quiet and the beachfront was so limited with few buildings. We'd ride our motorcycles down quiet roads along the beaches.

Driving the main street through town traffic was just some motorcycles, a car here and there.

We'd sit at an open-air restaurant on Sokha, and eat pepper crab and stuffed squid, watching the sunset on the quiet beach.

Those were some happy times, and SHV was a friendly, quiet little beach town.

Cinnamoncat wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2019 10:56 am It's so sad to know that SHV has come to this.

When I lived there in 94, 95, part of 96 it was stunningly beautiful and peaceful and quiet. Otres beach was so quiet and the beachfront was so limited with few buildings. We'd ride our motorcycles down quiet roads along the beaches.

Driving the main street through town traffic was just some motorcycles, a car here and there.

We'd sit at an open-air restaurant on Sokha, and eat pepper crab and stuffed squid, watching the sunset on the quiet beach.

Those were some happy times, and SHV was a friendly, quiet little beach town.

Was that the little restaurant at the base of the old Independence Hotel? That was my favourite restaurant in SHV back in the 90s.

RightLegDave wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2019 4:04 am

Cinnamoncat wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2019 10:56 am It's so sad to know that SHV has come to this.

When I lived there in 94, 95, part of 96 it was stunningly beautiful and peaceful and quiet. Otres beach was so quiet and the beachfront was so limited with few buildings. We'd ride our motorcycles down quiet roads along the beaches.

Driving the main street through town traffic was just some motorcycles, a car here and there.

We'd sit at an open-air restaurant on Sokha, and eat pepper crab and stuffed squid, watching the sunset on the quiet beach.

Those were some happy times, and SHV was a friendly, quiet little beach town.

Was that the little restaurant at the base of the old Independence Hotel? That was my favourite restaurant in SHV back in the 90s.

Hey, Dave! It was just about right across from the old SHV branch of ACE which was on the main drag of Ekreach. I can dig around at some point and see if I can find some photos. It was on the corner of the road that went down to Psah Luah. Every morning, I got noodles with curry, and ate a couple of those fried things that you dunk in coffee, although they always smelled kind of weird, like ammonia.

Ken used to get noodle soup and seems like he got a couple of meatballs and some square chunks of meat in it. He usually got fresh-squeezed orange juice, and I did too.

The coffee was good there. Students would ride their motos by and wave. We ate there every day for a long, long time---usually at about 7:40 am after we taught from 6 - 7:30. Then, we'd go home and take a nap. Next teaching hours, 10 - 11:30 unless one of us was out teaching at Ream, which was a really sucky gig as the ride was so long (relatively speaking).

phkachhouk wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2019 2:30 pm
10 years down the road it’ll be amazing. Not for expats but as a tourist destination/gambling hub.

No.

In ten years a combination of: sea level rise, poor construction methods using shitty materials, condos bought on spec and never lived in or rented out (thus the owners neglecting to pay maintenance fees), will result in hundreds of casino/condo tower complexes with elevators that don't work and half-filled swimming pools containing green, slime-covered water and tons of plastic garbage; with great chunks of surrounding concrete 'decking' breaking off and sliding into the sea as the foundations are undermined with every high tide/storm surge.

In ten years a combination of: sea level rise, poor construction methods using shitty materials, condos bought on spec and never lived in or rented out (thus the owners neglecting to pay maintenance fees), will result in hundreds of casino/condo tower complexes with elevators that don't work and half-filled swimming pools containing green, slime-covered water and tons of plastic garbage; with great chunks of surrounding concrete 'decking' breaking off and sliding into the sea as the foundations are undermined with every high tide/storm surge.

you're a glass half empty kinda guy aren't you?

We will have to wait and see but I agree that it’ll either be an amazing place or an absolute disaster zone but if I was investing millions I wouldn’t let that happen.


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Farewell to Otres Beach. Posted on social media last night.

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2019 1:37 pm Farewell to Otres Beach. Posted on social media last night.

They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot