cant we all just get along? #rking

i really dont care what people think of shv or shitsville or anywhere else i live

at home most people slag off where they live so its a refreshing change here!

unlike london where the majority of property (albeit not your two bed terraced) is owned by foreigners and lies empty

I thought the SR demographic ran more to meusli, yoga, and gender mainstreaming in a fairly fascist, bullying way.

frank lee bent wrote:I thought the SR demographic ran more to meusli, yoga, and gender mainstreaming in a fairly fascist, bullying way.

Really? I don't think I know anyone who eats muesli (unless they do so in shame at 4 a.m. when the alcohol starts draining from their veins) and only one person into yoga (though I know two people who run a yoga retreat but look unable to do so much as a mild stretching exercise themselves - they don't teach yoga though, they hired someone to do that). I'm not even sure what gender mainstreaming is...

Siem Reap's demographic is not dissimilar from expats in much of Cambodia. Mainly people who are a bit broken (for whatever reason) who have run away to escape the responsibilities of home and over time have found themselves trapped in low income jobs in a low income nation. It is a small place, however, and people's destructive tendencies tend to see them ejected from the local society pretty quickly and then they head off to PP or Snookie...

gender mainstreaming = gender equality

extreme politically correct example - The BBC!

John Bingham wrote:

TheGrinchSR wrote: Phnom Penh has gone from a slightly colourful dump to a menacing place.

I'm not seeing this, and nobody else has mentioned it either.

I think it might have something to do with the influx of money and the gentle push to get rid of the locals who have made the place their home.

It's local people who have all this money, and who own the vast majority of property. They aren't going anywhere.

I don't see that either, I have lived in PP for 20 years in pretty much every area. I go out most nights and certainly don't find the place in any way menacing, as it could be occasionally back in the '90's.There are plenty of nice places to live now (western style condos etc) and the majority are owned or rented by Khmer. In my condo for example, most of my neighbors are reasonably well off Khmer. Also the number of restaurants, wine bars and clubs have really mushroomed in the last year, making Phnom Penh a great place to be out at night. A large part of the clientele are also Khmer, which wasn't the case 20 years ago.

hanno wrote:

TheGrinchSR wrote:

frank lee bent wrote:I thought the SR demographic ran more to meusli, yoga, and gender mainstreaming in a fairly fascist, bullying way.

Really? I don't think I know anyone who eats muesli

You haven't been to ARTillery Cafe then . Full of Muesli-eating, gluten-intolerant, vegan NGO volunteers that attack Yoga with a passion. The reason I avoid this place....

No, definitely not been there. I try to avoid NGO types everywhere to be fair.

Battambang seems to be NGO epicentre.
Even the restos seem largely to be funded training enterprises.