Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2017 5:53 pm sure, people have a lot more freedoms here than they do in their home counry
a lot just arent responsible with that freedom

frank lee bent wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2017 6:11 pm no doubt cambodia attracts fucked up people.
for me:
i am happy here. i really enjoy my little beekeeping gig and training ( unpaid ) the local kids in the business.
a year ago i would not have believed i could live without AC and other things- i guess i forgot how i lived on the mining fields of lightning ridge and on my farm near kuranda.
maybe now that i am old i assumed certain things were requirements which were not.
but i only first started coming here in 2007, and living here for 3 years now- so took me some time to adjust.
one big surprise for me is that it is better to do biz with locals than expats, who constantly break their contracts

taabarang wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2017 7:19 pm I answered this question in a previous post.

"What future and for whom? Some biographical details first and conclusion later I met my wife 15 years ago and fell in love at an advanced age with a wonderful woman. I've lived in several countries and like many men been in and out of love a good deal. But this time I knew there would be no "out of love.". So we have been married every since and now have two teenage kids. The second reason I am still here is because both of my parents are deceased and I have no brothers or sisters. In short back home isn't really home so I wanted my kids to have a home and nationality didn't seem important.
So, we opted to move to the small rural village my wife comes from, bought land and had a modest but comfortable home built. So now my kids have a family, a really big one, for which I am grateful and we make ends meet on the pittance of Social Security that I get monthly. Far less than we would require in my home country.
So far so good. The kicker is rural education. I think my moms had a more advanced system when she was a student in a one room school house in the mountains of Tennessee. While the Khmer Rouge regime hobbled it the current government is the most responsible. I will spare you the litany of shortcomings and say that not only is it inferior to the education the sons and daughters of the privileged class it is lamentably lacking in qualified staff and has no art, no music, no labs for chemistry and physics and no supervised sports. There is more but that is in the litany I promised to spare you.
So, in short I feel that I was somewhat selfish in pursuing my love interest. But I was naive and really didn't have the financial wherewithal to move a family back to my country. They now see themselves as Cambodian and would miss the country terribly if they were uprooted. As for me I'm an old man; I can live or die anywhere. But I don't think I'll ever forgive myself for having put my interests first.
So, in conclusion if I were single I would have left long ago and never come back. There are many other small countries that admirably cope with their problems and constructively use foreign aid to advance the whole country, not just a select few."

taabarang wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2017 7:19 pm I answered this question in a previous post.

"What future and for whom? Some biographical details first and conclusion later I met my wife 15 years ago and fell in love at an advanced age with a wonderful woman. I've lived in several countries and like many men been in and out of love a good deal. But this time I knew there would be no "out of love.". So we have been married every since and now have two teenage kids. The second reason I am still here is because both of my parents are deceased and I have no brothers or sisters. In short back home isn't really home so I wanted my kids to have a home and nationality didn't seem important.
So, we opted to move to the small rural village my wife comes from, bought land and had a modest but comfortable home built. So now my kids have a family, a really big one, for which I am grateful and we make ends meet on the pittance of Social Security that I get monthly. Far less than we would require in my home country.
So far so good. The kicker is rural education. I think my moms had a more advanced system when she was a student in a one room school house in the mountains of Tennessee. While the Khmer Rouge regime hobbled it the current government is the most responsible. I will spare you the litany of shortcomings and say that not only is it inferior to the education the sons and daughters of the privileged class it is lamentably lacking in qualified staff and has no art, no music, no labs for chemistry and physics and no supervised sports. There is more but that is in the litany I promised to spare you.
So, in short I feel that I was somewhat selfish in pursuing my love interest. But I was naive and really didn't have the financial wherewithal to move a family back to my country. They now see themselves as Cambodian and would miss the country terribly if they were uprooted. As for me I'm an old man; I can live or die anywhere. But I don't think I'll ever forgive myself for having put my interests first.
So, in conclusion if I were single I would have left long ago and never come back. There are many other small countries that admirably cope with their problems and constructively use foreign aid to advance the whole country, not just a select few."