bossho wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:06 pm In 2015, the Borough of Milton Keynes had nine 'lower super output areas'[o] that are in the 10% most deprived in England, but also had twelve 'lower super output areas' in the 10% least deprived in England.[201] This contrast between areas of affluence and areas of deprivation in spite of a thriving local economy, inspired local charity The Community Foundation (in its 2016 'Vital Signs' report) to describe the position as a 'Tale of Two Cities'.[202]

---from the wiki page for "Milton Keynes" posted to offer that if Ol' Milt could talk and act well then it looks like he'd do what he could for his neighbor when he could do it---

bossho wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 9:17 pm @Anchor Moy for the most part I concur, but posters who warn here about the poseur poor also have valid points, there is a lot of getting over on the foreigners going on out there and I don't need to be fluent in Khmer to know its a hustle when someone talks poor but has got more cash than me on them but that hand still is out.

That's why qualified giving to your inner circle of locals might be best, and then I would add to never give money to locals you know are rough even if they are sweet to you, even if they need it and you can see that need.

I can say from experience that when the day comes and you don't give, all you ever gave cumulatively will be forgotten and you will be targeted from then on. Usually this is called "extortion" and this might be what other posters refuse to give in to and rightfully so to them. I wish I never did, it's limited my safe movement in this city and I have to look out and be ready for anything in some zones of the city now because I thought I was doing good and making inroads with a holes.

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 9:40 pm

Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 9:01 pm

The Judge wrote: ↑Tue Sep 28, 2021 6:24 pm Why barang try to solve Khmer people's problems is beyond me.

I haven't experienced one Khmer ever who truly tried to help me, without benefiting greatly for themselves in the process.

I see it everyday. These people are professionals at playing the woe-be-me card. Despite any signs, verbal pleas, etc, ready assured they have family somewhere who can support them, if they are truly in need.

It takes a shrewd eye to identify the level and magnitude of their collective greed.

You can't change the country or the people, but you can change your attitude.

Wherever you live, there are always people in need. Poor people are not playing at being poor and needy just to cheat you and piss you off. If you were not there, they would still be poor and in need. They are not being poor AT YOU, believe it or not.

You said

I haven't experienced one Khmer ever who truly tried to help me, without benefiting greatly for themselves in the process.These people [Khmer] are professionals at playing the woe-be-me card

Life is short and you sound unhappy. Why not accept things as they are, don't expect anything, stop judging people, and appreciate the good things in life ? "Do what you can" is not a bad life motto.

Yes, and there's a pattern of posts that are negative of Cambodia and disparaging of khmers. It's one thing to criticize certain aspects of life in Cambodia from time to time, another to make sweeping negative generalisations that insult and demean khmers on a continual, ongoing basis.

@The Judge If that is your MO going forward, it's not appropriate on this forum. Nor are sweeping racial slurs as you've done on another topic. I suggest you lighten up on this rhetoric if you wish to stay on here. Take a 24 hrs off to think about how you want to contribute to CEO and no need to come back if you wish to resume as before.

sanjuro wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 10:24 pm Both of these sites have become so calcified with opportunistic pseudo-wokism that it's inevitable that I get banned at some point while speaking truth to power.
Truth (as in "water is wet", or pizza delivery 'bodies with persons' are "not in fact heroic" ) is not a popular subject.

With that said, who here can honestly say Cambodia attracts the best and brightest? To pick on barang--east & west.

Anyone? Look around you. Statistically even if you find a handful of "swell" guys or "good chaps" as was mockingly said when we bit it at 55 , what percentage would we top out at? 2?
1? Does that make us the 1%. No. You can BS on a forum or slumped over a bar or to your mother-in-law all you like. -Doesn't mean they bought it. You're the hardest sell to yourself. Take it as severely cynical as you want, doesn't matter much to me. I know where I stand. I know what makes me smile. We are all, human, after all.

Marty wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 8:44 am
Khmers are such lowlife cocksucking scum that they'll have their hand out and accept our generosity or fuck us deep in our asses and rob us. They obviously don't give any fucks.

Marty wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 8:44 am
Khmers are such lowlife cocksucking scum that they'll have their hand out and accept our generosity or fuck us deep in our asses and rob us. They obviously don't give any fucks.

AndyKK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:33 am It's fair to say most visitors to the country have been ripped off, and there's plenty of warning beforehand, but we still may have fallen for it was n some way or another.