What is a decent allowance for a Khmer girlfriend?
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Re: What is a decent allowance for a Khmer girlfriend?
LOLSweet Lemon wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 12:15 pmYeah, Cambodian coconut sellers aren't poor because they were raised in a developing country and are poorly educated and no marketable skills. It's because they don't keep records of the coconut sales.
one thing with the lockdown in various countries and the poor
they now have to choose,
break the law to try and earn a few $$
or go hungry
how will keeping track help them?
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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Re: What is a decent allowance for a Khmer girlfriend?
There is no lock down here, traveling between provinces has been banned except for goods transport.phuketrichard wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 1:15 pm
one thing with the lockdown in various countries and the poor
they now have to choose,
break the law to try and earn a few $$
or go hungry
how will keeping track help them?
Silence, exile, and cunning.
Re: What is a decent allowance for a Khmer girlfriend?
FTFYJohn Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 1:22 pmThere is no lock down here, traveling between districts has been banned except for goods transport.phuketrichard wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 1:15 pm
one thing with the lockdown in various countries and the poor
they now have to choose,
break the law to try and earn a few $$
or go hungry
how will keeping track help them?
Pork which is coming from neighboring districts didn’t make it today to the market despite exceptions announced. I guess the guys checking the roads either did not receive clear instructions or they fell for the old habit of holding up theirs hands at checkpoints.
Re: What is a decent allowance for a Khmer girlfriend?
Why do you guys give your girlfriends allowances? Lived in thailand for a very long time and never paid them allowances. What is the reasoning behind an allowance? Is this a khmer thing?
Re: What is a decent allowance for a Khmer girlfriend?
I think you will find its more related to bar girls, normally as I am sure you are aware, they get a basic salary + Girl drink percentage + short or long-time profit.
Its safe to say 99% of these girls do not want to be doing what they are but they are making some good coin for little effort and in return can send decent coin home to support the family. (or safe face, depends how you look at it)
If you want to pull one of these girls away from the bar to become a permanent fixture, you will need to make the venture profitable so she can keep up appearances and keep the family happy.
As a rule, most will be your live in for less then possibly bar earnings simply because of security/ guaranteed income and it’s a shitload less effort.
Rule of thumb, stunner = a hefty fee, middy = happy life
Well that’s my take on it anyhow
Re: What is a decent allowance for a Khmer girlfriend?
Yes, I think you're correct.BigDee wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 4:06 pmI think you will find its more related to bar girls, normally as I am sure you are aware, they get a basic salary + Girl drink percentage + short or long-time profit.
Its safe to say 99% of these girls do not want to be doing what they are but they are making some good coin for little effort and in return can send decent coin home to support the family. (or safe face, depends how you look at it)
If you want to pull one of these girls away from the bar to become a permanent fixture, you will need to make the venture profitable so she can keep up appearances and keep the family happy.
As a rule, most will be your live in for less then possibly bar earnings simply because of security/ guaranteed income and it’s a shitload less effort.
Rule of thumb, stunner = a hefty fee, middy = happy life
Well that’s my take on it anyhow
Bar girls expect an allowance.
Ex bar girls expect an allowance.
Girls with knowledge about the bar scene will try to get an allowance.
Other girls might try to bargain some kind of allowance, but it seems a rare occurrence.
Re: What is a decent allowance for a Khmer girlfriend?
A proper question to ask is why wouldn't a girl expect an allowance, especially from a foreigner boyfriend? A girl like that surely is contriving something sinister in the future, I would stay away.
Re: What is a decent allowance for a Khmer girlfriend?
I do'n know re a Khmer gf... Tland, in past years I would provide a "small" allowance to gf because I didn't want her working bar whilst being gf. some stuck around, some didn't. No matter what their work history, peer pressure is very strong and family pressure is double that. Don't fight culture. Maybe I should have moved upscale - nah. Eventually wound up officially married to thai gf. said I wouldn't and never sent her family one baht, gave her small spending money occasionally. In the end, same old story all over the world, renting would have been cheaper. Live and try to learn.
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