Since a little while I'm a member of the expat google group here in Myanmar. The group was established 2 years ago to share information for the foreigners living in Myanmar. This is a country where lots of things are possible to have/buy but it is,still, very difficult to find out where to go. For example, you might be looking or something relatively easy to find in the west and go to all major retailers and not find it. Then, by chance you might see what you were looking for in a tiny mom-and-pop store where you walked in by chance.
So, the group can be very very useful. Now, there are a lot of members and the questions asked can range from very good to plain dumb. That, of course happens to most groups and forums on the net.
What I find interesting, at least to me it is, is the sometimes complete lack of local understanding. There is something about 'real' expats that baffles me continuously. The utter lack of regard to costs, the sharing of things that for most people are way out of league, and so on. Luckily those kind of topics don't come up too often but when they do I, for one, often wonder what people were thinking when they posted them.
With the fairly massive influx of 'real' expats at the moment, I think I better get used to seeing posts like that more often.
If I see a really good one again, I will post it here. Saw one the other day and deleted it but there'll be others for sure.
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