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[waxtadpole]

Hello

I have been in China for 6 months, I changed jobs a few weeks ago and moved to a new city, but I've had enough already.

Before I came to China I lived in Brazil for 2 years and loved it there. It is a very hot, friendly, disorganized, crazy, dangerous, beautiul country, and I think that somewhere like Cambodia will be a better place for me.

Why I don't like China (and Chinese, sorry)

It's sterile. Their idea of a good night out is going on the internet. If you are a moderate drinker you can spend your whole salary on beer if you go our more than once a week. It's a concrete jungle. It's boring. They don't like foreigners. I can't get a girlfriend (not because I'm ugly, but because I don't want to buy one).

Will I like Cambodia?

[senor boogie woogie]

Hola!

Do (or did you) live in Shanghai and never leave? You quoted concrete jungle, boring, don't like foreigners and above all else, that beer drinking alone and going out will eat your salary up. I haven't had any of those experinces, I find China interesting, the Hangzhounese like foreigners (if only to amuse themselves), and I get to ride in taxi cabs, go out drinking when I want, watch cheap DVDs and generally have a good time.

I want to visit Cambodia and will do so in February. I would not like to live in Cambodia, I don't think, because they do have guns there and there is a definite hard drug scene there which leads to addicts stealing and robbing for a fix. Supposedly a girl can be had to do anything you want her to can be had for as low as 2 US dollars. Really, I am going to be mainly "passing through" so to speak. maybe spend one day in Phnom Penh, then go to Siem Reap and Angkor Wat then on into Thailand.

I have also heard about the dreadful poverty of those people who live outside the cities in the rural areas. I have been to Laos (twice) and have never seen so many poor, poor people and I grew up in Mississippi delta country, and lived in China for three years. I would expect the people in Cambodia to be just as poor. But, i will say that if I was ingle, I would be tempted to move to Lao to start a hotel/internet/coffee bar in Laung Prabang, smoke green and have a 19 year old maid that does everything I tell her too. So, in that regard, you may enjoy your cambodian experience.

Maybe you would like Vietnam, the pay there is actually higher than China, you get a southeast Asian living experience and I am sure a little safer than Cambodia.

Good website www.khmer400.com. I read a message board on the site and the people there have said that a person interested in teaching in Cambodia will have to show up there, they do not hire from the outside.

Good luck dude.

Senor

[Aramas]

That should be http://www.khmer440.com

[Healer]