Could it get any worse than this ?

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 2:10 pm

they used to say "america, love it or leave it." so i left circa 1972.
it kind of stifles debate though.

bangkokhooker · Post by **bangkokhooker** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 2:14 pm

Yet we are still debating.

pczz · Post by **pczz** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 2:15 pm

bangkokhooker wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 1:59 pm
Cam Nivag wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 6:12 am Haha, "hell" is when you no longer have access to dirt cheap beer, meth and skanky hookers, I guess.
Expats are waxing lyrical about the “old” SHV as if it was some modern paradise. It was a shithole in 2014 and is now.

I’ve always said. If you don’t like it fuck off back home.

But it was ok 2011 to 2014

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 2:18 pm

i think the ease of visas for long termers, the ability to start a little low key business, and the fact that the Khmer people had not been exposed to decades of tourism were the prime attractants in any perceived "golden age"
PP seemed to have about half the people when i first visited in 2007 compared to the current population.
People were poorer.

taabarang · Post by **taabarang** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 2:32 pm

Yes, they were poorer, but at least had not yet adopted the arrogant predilection for being ostentatious.

King Keil · Post by **King Keil** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 2:34 pm

I think GSM will be much nicer after the remodelling job but the problem is to find a good mix of customers.
I mean the business owners who rent these new bars want some normal people with money but those people could be scared away by some of the regular customers.
Yesterday for example, I wanted to go into one of these places to have a drink but had to go around the corner because the people who sat there, how can I put it, they just did not look inviting.
And I am not really sensitive about that normally.
One was wearing a T-shirt that said "I fart in your direction"

bangkokhooker · Post by **bangkokhooker** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 2:51 pm

Koh Samui was ace in the early 90s. Anyone could setup a business, cheap beer cheap girls. Then the investors came.

Maybe Myanmar is next...

Micmac · Post by **Micmac** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 2:55 pm

In all fairness King Keil, atleast the guy was giving you fair warning with the "I fart in your direction" T-shirt .. lol classic

Post by **Jamie_Lambo** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 3:07 pm

pczz wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 2:15 pm
bangkokhooker wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 1:59 pm
Cam Nivag wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 6:12 am Haha, "hell" is when you no longer have access to dirt cheap beer, meth and skanky hookers, I guess.
Expats are waxing lyrical about the “old” SHV as if it was some modern paradise. It was a shithole in 2014 and is now.

I’ve always said. If you don’t like it fuck off back home.
But it was ok 2011 to 2014

Arget · Post by **Arget** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 3:35 pm

that genius wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 11:50 am
frank lee bent wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 10:40 am walkabout could be a fun place at times

Mods! flb posted a picture of me! Outing!

You have had your blue beard trimmed too.......or is that an old photo?

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