I’m talking about germaphobia/mysophobia.

  • Saigonauticon@voltage.vn
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    1 year ago

    It’s… not an option. I live in a slum in Vietnam. This is actually quite nice in many ways, it is overall quiet and safe! However, flooding, weird plumbing, humidity, and general low-level chaos make it impossible to keep particularly clean.

    It would be like being afraid of air.

    Like, I used to be afraid of spiders. Then I immigrated here and spiders were just common enough that after a period of discomfort I just had to give up and accept them.

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      1 year ago

      Thanks for sharing! How come you moved to Vietnam? Where were you living before?

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        1 year ago

        It’s true, although some of those things make me rather sad. Climate change is one – I’m moving to a coastal city in a few years and as I’m designing a home, I’m realizing that everyone that didn’t have the money to build with climate change in mind is going to live a hard life. Just south in Quảng Nam it’s already getting quite bad.

        In the slum where I live now (in HCMC), life is easy and most people do not work full time (I think 3-4 people on my street have what you would recognize as a ‘job’). However, they will be priced out of their homes within a generation, there are no words I can say to help them, and the cause is company owners like me seizing the lion’s share of the country’s growth (although admittedly I work a lot more than they do).

        At least for the moment they lead rich and full lives with family and friends, a brief moment in the sun – but they’ve sold their children’s future for the present without realizing it.