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- Sorry the yahoo was meant to be encouraging not derisive - realised it could be taken both ways....
- Yeah, but half the fun of travelling is remembering where we come from isnt as bad as we thought. Yahoo.
- Oh i don't know i think it'd be kinda cool, plus you'd soon get used to the noise
- Not diving is one thing I do regret. I have have done a lot of diving on my trip so it wasn't that great of a loss. I could in theory still dive in Aqaba. I had 1 day left on my visa so it was...
- Many travel blogs I visit, I have a hard time figuring out their route. I list the countries in order so people understand my route, although a person can perceive and judge the context as they...
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Multi-year, around the world trip
Up until this weekend, my Samoa experience has been limited to the greater Apia area. Apia is the biggest town in Samoa with shops, restaurants and most of the trappings of civilization. I’ve kept to Apia either because of the impetigo, working on Tokelau accommodations or sloth
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2 years ago
How much it affects the society as a whole depends on how many outsiders there are. Samoa is too small, so no outsiders really exist. Fiji has a large indian and smaller chinese population, so they own a lot of business (which causes friction).
In PNG and the Solomon Islands, and to a lesser extent Vanuatu and New Caledonia, some-one who wants to run a business can go to a different area, where their own one-talks are not around, so while the system still holds, it doesn't have the same effect.