Says It All Really Doesn't It?

[mark lamai]

Cambodia should use this as a tourist advertising campaign

[Huey]

I was there for a couple months in 2003. They don't even smile there like they do in Thailand. Its dirty and runed down, I'm remined of Pheom Phen whever I go into Bahgdad..but atleast Bahgdad has an excuse. 2 weeks there will make Pattaya look like Geneva. Seriously. Give me LOS anyday.

[Rinrada]

Should have seen the place when I first arrived there in 1992.......ye dogs .real wild west town...but still glad I went.....had to keep yer head down at times but good fun....

[Kerryd]

Doesn't really say much at all.

Go to any country in the world, and only look at the bad news headlines. What do you think that will do to your perception of the place ?

If there was a similar site (i.e. CamboVisa.com), and you read through the news clippings there, do you really think they would be any better ? I suspect they would be a lot worse (other than the fact there is probably lots of <deleted> going on there that never gets reported period).

The problem is, nobody really gives a rat's arse about good news stories. We've experimented with that in the Pattaya News Clippings forum. Good news doesn't sell (or attract anywhere near the attention).

When a story about a Thai taxi driver finding (and returning) some tourists bag with hundreds of thousands of baht in it, gets 3-4 replies and 50-60 views, but a story about some drunk idiot getting pick-pocketed by a ladyboy gets 10+ times the responses and views, you know few people care about the good side of life here (as far as the news is concerned).

There will always be those people though, for whatever reason, that like to pick out the bad things and try to make it seem like that is the only thing that ever happens.

Funny though, they can NEVER show us anywhere where life is perfect. Where is this mystical place that is oh so much better than Thailand ? Where there's no crime, great weather and food, friendly people, excellent exchange rates and cheap prices.

It sure as h3ll ain't Cambodia, that's for sure !

[asiaworld]

If there was a similar site (i.e. CamboVisa.com), and you read through the news clippings there, do you really think they would be any better ? I suspect they would be a lot worse (other than the fact there is probably lots of <deleted> going on there that never gets reported period).

hmm.. couldn't let this one slide , really . Actually THERE IS a similar site (can't remember the exact name,nor is it good idea to put it here, due to censoring>>& it's NOT called CamboVisa, simply because there is NO visa problems for expats in Cambodia, pretty much 'free' for all so far well you still have to pay .

But the most important difference, i've felt reading & posting there is the 'serenity' satisfaction with their lot of sorts of the forum participants .. They don't have to worry what tomorrow brings, & as a result sound a lot healthier .

Only Thailand breeds the lot of residents, who are unsertain & quite stressed about their future outlook ! Shame really, but fact

[t.s]

says you didn't screenshot a cambodian forum.

oddly, i have never been mugged in thailand, and dont know anyone else who has, but my friends in cambodia, male and female, almost all have.

my personal favourite is a woman who was knocked off her motorcycle by a brick in the face. they got her gym bag and sweaty shorts. she got reconstructive surgery.

dont pretend cambodia is safer, understand you are not getting the news.

[naka]

Tourism in Cambodia ? What does one do after seeing Angkor Wat ?

Chat with the NGO's at the FCC

Naka.

Edited March 30, 2008 by naka

[asiaworld]

says you didn't screenshot a cambodian forum.

oddly, i have never been mugged in thailand, and dont know anyone else who has, but my friends in cambodia, male and female, almost all have.

my personal favourite is a woman who was knocked off her motorcycle by a brick in the face. they got her gym bag and sweaty shorts. she got reconstructive surgery.

dont pretend cambodia is safer, understand you are not getting the news.

Well i haven't said, that Cambodia is crime-free! No country in the world is ! Even thou comparing the level of poverty there & here, does makes you think .. there's more poverty 'in your face', but it is still almost as safe, as Thailand. What i've stressed in my post is, that expat population, feels generally more content, so they display less negative emotions, aout their adopted home ! Same as me, being resident in both, i do feel much more welcome, dealing with Cambo bureucracy, starting from border guards upwards... even feel sence of 'entitlement' on my annually renewed 'extention of stay' .. Couldn't imagine same dealing with Thai immi! Secure & satisfied expats, make a lot healthier & worry'free lot .. Sad Thailand never seem to learn this important point! Than probably even TV posters will consider crimes, just as crimes>>not an 'anti foreign geneside'

[Maigo6]

I was there for a couple months in 2003. They don't even smile there like they do in Thailand. Its dirty and runed down, I'm remined of Pheom Phen whever I go into Bahgdad..but atleast Bahgdad has an excuse. 2 weeks there will make Pattaya look like Geneva. Seriously. Give me LOS anyday.

Now, that would be nice.

[TheDon]

Cambodia should use this as a tourist advertising campaign

Maybe your should go there

[jdinasia]

I think what says more can be seen by looking at the threads Mark has started

[YangYaiEric]

Hey you lot, Kampuchea is a GREAT place! So dont knock it! Try watching some Kampuchea t.v programs, and you'll get a better opinion of the country!

For example, did you know that the Kampuchean language is one of the most complex languages in Asia, with 76 letters in its alphabet ?

[jdinasia]

Hey you lot, Kampuchea is a GREAT place! So dont knock it! Try watching some Kampuchea t.v programs, and you'll get a better opinion of the country!

For example, did you know that the Kampuchean language is one of the most complex languages in Asia, with 76 letters in its alphabet ?

Wow! is that more than or fewer than the letters present in Thai? (and is complex a good thing?)

[Gravelrash]

I posted a similar quote of recent headlines in another thread. Thailand is still fine for me but there are trends emerging of escalating violence against foreigners, time will tell how far it all goes. I certainly am not heading off to Cambodia, nor pretending that it isn't happening.

Valid point though about people being more relaxed if not having to go through the visa hassles. Must be just me that feels the Thai officials quite enjoy putting us through the wringer. Some of the grovelling I've seen people go through at Immigration is quite demeaning. Yeah, yeah, their country, if I don't like it go home.