This Is Not My Beautiful House, This Is Not . . .

Post by **Username Taken** » Sat Jul 28, 2018 10:36 pm

This is not the Phnom Penh that I first called home so many years ago.

finbar · Post by **finbar** » Sat Jul 28, 2018 10:43 pm

That latter video seems to show some of the best of the new.
The reality seems much worse to me.

GTC7 · Post by **GTC7** » Sun Jul 29, 2018 7:51 am

It all depends where you live, just like anywhere. Stay in a high rise condo and shop at Western style supermarkets and your Phnom Penh may be very different than others living next to a shit river sewer in a wooden shack and 10 people inside.

Post by **Username Taken** » Sun Jul 29, 2018 7:40 pm

GTC7 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 7:51 am It all depends where you live, just like anywhere. Stay in a high rise condo and shop at Western style supermarkets and your Phnom Penh may be very different than others living next to a shit river sewer in a wooden shack and 10 people inside.

My point being (in part) that there were no 'high rise condos' at that time.

GTC7 · Post by **GTC7** » Sun Jul 29, 2018 7:48 pm

Right, I was replying actually to finbar talking about "reality being so much worse".

I agree, even my first trip to Asia in 2006 and EVERYTHING looked different. Traffic was so much less too, Phnom Penh then looked like Kampot does now, maybe even less.