Happy2 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 10:26 pm Yes but surely someone can give a decent approximation of what’s actually going on.

I.e. vs Phnom Penh. Vs. kampot 1 year ago, etc.

I mean here in Phnom Penh I haven’t heard any such stories as I hear from Kampot? And I assume there are much more foreigners in the capital than Kampot?

I always found that Risk Factor increases with the PM time.

1pm Lunch...Risk Factor 1 Most of the assholes are still sleeping it off (watch out for all nighters)

6pm Dinner... Risk Factor 6... Some heavy drinkers/druggies might have got started early and are now playing up, but usually just normal people. And so on and so forth until 6AM after which the daylight start the reset.

00:00 to 06:00 is where the vast majority of trouble occurs when compared to the number of people out at that time and that is true of just about everywhere.

Personally, I would be much more concerned about the journey there and back. Are you riding a bike there by any chance?

There are lots of scary street dogs in Kampot.

Sihanoukville would be much safer and more exciting.

John Bingham wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 7:13 pm I was staying on a friend's farm in the hills of Kampot, he was the GRK commander for the district. It was a moonlit night so I decided to go for a stroll along the road up the hill. I hadn't gone far when a crazy tattooed guy in just a krama with a machete popped out ahead of me. He was screaming while heading towards me. I decided to go back to the house - at a brisk pace. That was in 2009. Almost the exact same thing happened to me in Prey Veng in broad daylight a few years before that except he just had a big stick. The boonies are full of savages.

Maybe stop going out in your 30k of gold necklaces big boss

I'd say Phnom Penh is way more dangerous than Kampot, especially after 10pm. But most of the expats in PP are streetwise and there are no tourists. Chinese are actually common victims.

In Kampot, there is a bubble of young expats that want to live their Western way without so much adaptation, so that exposes them to more danger. However, if they lived like that in PP, they'd be lambs to the slaughter.

In rate of change terms, yes probably Kampot has got worse, but from a low base.

timmydownawell wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:14 am There are lots of scary street dogs in Kampot.

This is true. I heard about one they call Snoopy that has more than a few expats on his consciousness. Dogs was always the most dangerous part of Kampot, but some of us survived still!

I think both PP and Kampot have both felt less safe after dark with less people around