Observations on Northern and eastern Cambodia

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Re: Observations on Northern and eastern Cambodia

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The new housing looks like the postwar prefabs in Youkay (some are still joyously and comfortably inhabited)

https://www.google.com.kh/search?q=post ... __TpggM%3A

... or like the (initially) charmless "development towns" in Israel where the penniless and (largely) unskilled Iraq, Yemeni and Moroccan immigrants were billeted when they first arrived.

That sort of new housing always looks effing depressing at first but very soon someone will have a shop and soon there will be a hair salon and then a bike repair place and so on.

The bad news is that quite a few of the younger men and women will be "working away" at first, leaving the old, the very young and the totally useless behind, but - inevitably - things improve in quite a short time.
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Re: Observations on Northern and eastern Cambodia

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Good to hear of your travels Richard. There are huge amounts of timber being cut up here, I think it is the last surviving great forest are to logged. Everyone is getting a slice of the action, one of the few places where the trickle down works.
I always wonder what the rich will do when the trees run out, even the sand has to be a finite resource.
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Re: Observations on Northern and eastern Cambodia

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Eat their own young
Money is not the problem, the problem is no money
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Re: Observations on Northern and eastern Cambodia

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just back from visiting the 3 closest waterfalls to Banlung, they are all three over rated
but beyond that on the dirt roads were many wood houses with stacks of wood under the house and stacked in the back yards and hidden under tarps in their yards.
lots of newly planted rubber trees and orchards. Tell ya, still its a beautiful part of Cambodia up here.
off to Sen Monorom tomorrow.

WE stayed in a beautiful wood house north of ST on the Mekong, he had at least 30 of those thick wooden tables that take 10 people to move , pus his whole house was wood, the chairs, ceilings, doors, and those huge vases and benches.
'said he brought them for his kids as he figured by the time they grow up, there wont be any left.
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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