I recently read this post about 7 reasons NOT to move to Cambodia.
For me it feels like this guy came here on a poverty-safari rather then absorbing a new culture and way of life. Most of the points he take up like the infrastructure and garbage everywhere for me is something i not even think about. Its simply another country. You cannot go from a captial city in europe and complain about that the roads are bad.
However i understand there are two different types of people. Those who only see the filth and those who see beyond the filth to the beauty behind it.
He also claim that if you earn 1.200$ as a teacher you would have a crappy life in a bad apartment.
I wonder if this guy have ever been to Cambodia at all. I lived for a short while in a fairly new 3 room apartment with kitchen and 3 toilets that costed 350$ a month but i also been in 100$ apartments that i did not live in but very much could. Whole, clean, ground floor with a small second one, simple kitchen, toiled in Phnom penh for 100$ a month (exl water and electricity).
So if we say 150$ for the apartment and 150$ for food. How can you not have a good life with 900$ on your pocket in Cambodia? After the apartment and food is purchased? Thats 30 dollar PER DAY!
1.200$ a month is what i spend if i live as a tourist and only live in guesthouses and eat all meals outside, drink beer almost every day and have regular company.
But ok, you will also have to pay for insurance unless you want to risk to not be picked up by the ambulance for not having one as they fear you will not be able to pay for the stay.
If you work and have a normal life you dont spend as much.
Can read what he write here:
http://www.khmer440.com/k/2013/07/7-reasons-why-you-really-shouldnt-move-to-cambodia/
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