The other day I was downtown for the first quiz night in Yangon (that even I know off, there might have been previous attempts). It was a very successful attempt and the bar was full.
For me the most interesting feature of the evening was though the number of foreigners. Most of them fairly young (mid-twenties to early thirties) and I was wondering about what they were doing here.
Then yesterday I was at a workshop from a hardware/software giant and in the hotel there were so many westerners. Again.
Yangon/Myanmar is almost like a treasure chest. The last bastion of golden opportunities. There are masses of 'consultants' and 'specialists' in this country nowadays. People who have been here for a few months consider themselves old-timers and knowledgeable on the culture. On forums this was already a bit the case before especially for tourists with people giving advice who had visited the country years before. Nowadays though it seems like every other person I meet or hear about is here to make their fortune.
It is a fairly unsettling feeling and I wonder how many of them will be here in the next couple of years. If the quiz nights continue (once a month) how many will be able to say in a year's time that they were there during the first one?
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