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Mercer ranks Phnom Penh last among ASEAN cities for personal safety
21 March 2019
Cambodian capital Phnom Penh has been deemed the worst city in East and Southeast Asia for personal safety according to Mercer’s latest quality of living index.

Now in its 21st edition, the annual Quality of Living index compiled by human capital consultancy Mercer assesses a comprehensive range of factors in over 450 cities worldwide to arrive at its overall rankings – with Singapore the perennial top performer in Asia and the upper ranks largely dominated by cities in the DACH region: Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

This year, however, Mercer has also provided a separate ranking specifically for personal safety. Overall, Luxembourg was considered the safest city in the world, while Phnom Penh was assessed as the worst of all East and Southeast Asian cities, finishing one spot below Yangon in 199th place worldwide. Singapore, again, was the highest placing city in the region, at 30th.

The poor personal safety ranking places Phnom Penh only marginally above the notoriously crime-ridden Port-au-Prince in Haiti – but while the US State Department has previously listed the crime status of Phnom Penh as critical, primarily due to bag-snatches and pick-pocketing – the Mercer assessments takes in a broader range of factors, including internal stability, law enforcement, personal freedom and freedom of the press.
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Bullshit. Worse than Haiti? That Mercer must be a total racist. Khmer people are kind and very tolerant. I have never had a problem with personal security here - touch wood.

What a crock of shit!

Paulo wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2019 4:01 pm Bullshit. Worse than Haiti? That Mercer must be a total racist. Khmer people are kind and very tolerant. I have never had a problem with personal security here - touch wood.

I think it is way out because of some of the criteria they have included.

"the Mercer assessments takes in a broader range of factors, including internal stability, law enforcement, personal freedom and freedom of the press."

Probably they weight the scale with factors that many people do not regard as relevant to personal safety. However if they had included riding a moto I might agree with them!

They also note:

Despite the concerns for personal safety, the expat population of Phnom Penh continues to boom ( I wonder why- maybe they just like living dangerously ) - with unreliable government estimates of around 160,000 foreign workers in the country in total – and in the 2017 Expat Insider survey report conducted by expat platform InterNations, respondents rated Cambodia as 12th for personal happiness. Still, Phnom Penh ranked in lowly 196th on the overall quality of living index. Maybe what people define as quality of living varies substantially!

Anecdotally, seems like a dangerous place for women, sometimes, but not so much men. Boys on scooters grabbing purses is what I'm mainly thinking of.

Paulo wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2019 4:01 pm Bullshit. Worse than Haiti? That Mercer must be a total racist. Khmer people are kind and very tolerant. I have never had a problem with personal security here - touch wood.

Haiti is a big place my friend. Haiti as a whole may be safer than PP. Parts of Haiti are absolutely safer than PP. But comparing an entire country to a city is apples to oranges anyways.

I don't think that PP is really all that dangerous though. Just sticking up for Haiti.

Good. All the weak ass cunts can fuck right off to their safe spaces and leave us our thunderdome.

The good news is when your contract is being renewed you can cite this article as a claim for danger money.

Paulo wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2019 4:01 pm Bullshit. Worse than Haiti?

The country in the Caribbean? Why would that be included in a list of Asean cities?

Western males having "Heart attacks" and drunk lexus drivers made this article true.