Username Taken wrote:^^^ Do you think Cambodia is void of materialism? Cambodia is the epicenter of materialism! Even poor people have smart phones and facebook accounts.

Seasquatch wrote:

Username Taken wrote:^^^ Do you think Cambodia is void of materialism? Cambodia is the epicenter of materialism! Even poor people have smart phones and facebook accounts.

Seasquatch wrote:

Seasquatch wrote:

Username Taken wrote:^^^ Do you think Cambodia is void of materialism? Cambodia is the epicenter of materialism! Even poor people have smart phones and facebook accounts.

No absolutely not, I know materialism is all over the world and a lot of "less off" people dream of it, just thinking that a less materialistic lifestyle - for myself, would be easier there(or Costa Rica where I've lived before) than in the US. I'm a simple man, just need a laid back beach, good food and drink, travel. People can keep their $400 month car payments, $200 cable bills ect. I laugh when people ask how I have the money to travel when I drive a shitty 99 ford ranger work truck with paint all over it.

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BklynBoy wrote:

Jamie_Lambo wrote:

BklynBoy wrote:

Jamie_Lambo wrote:
i dont spend time with backpackers in any season
closest ive been to backpackers the past 2-3 months is i was in big easy a few nights ago playing pool with 3 of my khmer friends

Lambo,
Curious-- if you go back/forth where do you stay when home? I assume you have family that puts you up? Asking because trying to decide what makes the most sense for me personally. I have a rent controlled apt in brooklyn w/ roommates and would love to keep it. Currently I travel for approx 2 months -- Summers then go back to cold ass nyc to work. I am debating about making a bigger jump.

Do you pay any bills in your homeland while your in cambo?

yeah i am lucky in the sense i do have family that put me up,
it would be too much of a ball ache if i had to look for a new apartment every time i go back, and it wouldnt be very cost efficient if i kept an apartment while im away, as im usually away for most of the year,
now im about to hit 30 i may start doing it the other way round for a few years and spending a bit more time in england and just coming over for a few months in the winter, and getting a decent wedge of cash behind me so when it does come to a stage when i want to make a permanent move out here i would have enough to set up a business or at least buy my own place etc
its the smarter thing to do as im still young when it comes to men in asia,
but im just an empty shell of a man when im back in england, my heart and soul stay here lol

thats great man... you sound like me..or I sound like you. I am 44 and just love it out there bro. So you don't work at all while in cambo? I would love to do that for a longer time period. I just have the summers --- more and more its just not enough for me. 2 months... I dont want to lose my apartment in brooklyn and have roommates so trying to work it out. Thanks for sharing as I am curious how others do it. Curious--- what kind of profession allows you to do that? you work on a boat or something?
I actually just emailed you as well to ask.

thanks again

You sound like you're in my position except I don't get the 2 months off(to bad you didn't get them in winter), I get my 2-3 weeks to Japan to see the gf's family and my friends, and a couple weekend local trips, even taking that time off is a major pain in the ass for me as I still have to take calls. I'm a similar age too, I'd like to live abroad in Asia while I'm still "youngerish."
I've been looking at starting a business abroad for a while, more and more I read about it the more off putting it seems. I know an older gentlemen down in Costa Rica, been living, running businesses down there for 25 years, I go have beers with him and pick his brain, his advise he has gave me repeatedly is - earn your money in the US then come down and put your feet up. I'm starting to lean towards that advise.

I still can't help to feel this pull over there, to live a more simple/less complicated life, I think what I hate most about the West is the materialism.

Username Taken wrote:^^^ Do you think Cambodia is void of materialism? Cambodia is the epicenter of materialism! Even poor people have smart phones and facebook accounts.

BklynBoy wrote:

Username Taken wrote:^^^ Do you think Cambodia is void of materialism? Cambodia is the epicenter of materialism! Even poor people have smart phones and facebook accounts.

I agree w/ you! I think difference is you can have both in Cambodia-- Rural and city life. But in cambodia the materialism works for me --- now i can afford everything, and more!