Wow, life in Cambodia Phnom Penh is so good\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Too good! \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So we just signed a three month lease, for a nice service department. This is kind of an interesting concept\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 In which you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re staying at a super nice floor to ceiling window apartment condominium, and twice a week, cleaners come in and clean your whole place?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thinking about life in Los Angeles\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m like a peon having to vacuum my own place every day\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Take out the trash, clean the windows etc. Here, life leverage is like a trillion times better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcFirst, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve just recovered so much free time in the day! And also, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc found a really wonderful international school year for Seneca, this play based, color based artistic free range \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Waldorf school\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (without the anti-VAXxers), and now\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Life feels infinite?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The big thing about being in Cambodia\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Labor is so plentiful and cheap. Typically in the states, we find most of our labor from like Central America, Mexico El Salvador Guatemala etc. Yet the problem is they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re still being paid like $20 an hour, which means Labor is still so expensive in America! Triste to Cambodia, in which a laborer just makes like $150 a month, your US dollars goes a lot further here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So our current apartment is probably like 1000 times better than our apartment back in the states, in which we pay $3200 a month here it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like $1500 a month. But like at least 100 times nicer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore think about the economic parity here; \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc paying half the cost, for 10,000 times more service and superior facilities and lifestyle?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Certainly living in America, you have the ultimate access to commercial goods and products. However beside this\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Nothing I really miss about this dates. I kind of miss my Texas power squad bar at home, and my 50 kg steel plates, but besides this\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Nothing I miss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like like 1 trillion times better; and even ironically comparing Phnom Penh to LA — \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcPP is like 1000x better? In terms of walking around, the friendliness of people, and everyone here is just happy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My theory is that Buddhist countries, Cambodia Thailand etc.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 People are just much happier! Much kinder, more friendly, more positive and optimistic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Send call Sam made an interesting observation is that you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see many police officers in Cambodia, perhaps because there is less heavy theft and violence. Certainly there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably some crime that happened here like petty theft, but you won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be worrying about some sort of random talking in LA with a concealed gun?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also a funny thing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I feel like 1 billion times safer in Phnom Penh than Los Angeles. Once again here is again at the whole concealed gun thing; I have no issues getting into an argument with a random Angelino on the streets about him being an asshole smoker in public, but the only fear I ever get is that if I get into some sort of aggressive behavior with somebody on the streets in LA\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Once again they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re gonna pop out a gun and pop me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Living in a country without guns is better<\/strong>. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even during peak rush-hour here in Phnom Penh, it is shockingly peaceful quiet, very very little honking. You get a lot more honking in Vietnam in LA that you do here in Cambodia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the problems about being in Vietnam or other countries, China adjacent countries is that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some sort of fear that comes with social media Internet monitoring and censorship here in Cambodia I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel none of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, the friendliness and kindliness of people. One of the weird things about being in LA and the state is that everyone is trying to size you up, people are very very suspicious in a bad way, and very antisocial? Here everybody smiles at you, greets you, does the hand together peace gesture and the subtle bow. People are far more respectful than even Koreans, and also genuinely kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think so. A subtle nuance, I really don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like Siem Reap, I prefer \u00ef\u00bf\u00bcPhnom Penh 10000000x better. Why? Too many degenerate expats in Siem Reap, and also,<\/p>\n\n\n\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wow, life in Cambodia Phnom Penh is so good\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Too good! \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc Serviced apartments So we just signed a three month lease, for a nice service department. This is kind of an interesting concept\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661427,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661426\/revisions\/661427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Pace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The country<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
is there any good reason to not live in Cambodia?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n