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I returned to Penang and I’m happy. We’re back for three or so weeks to hang out with my wife’s family and to sop up a little more of a place that I’ve found to be one of the best bases of operation in the world.
It’s difficult to find anything wrong with this place. Sure, it’s dealing with similar issues that many other Asian cities are currently dealing with: i.e. rampant development that moves faster than the municipal facilities or society care to keep up with. So there is an excess of unnatural flooding, beaches have become construction zones, land is being reclaimed from the sea all over the island’s periphery, new buildings are being taken out by landslides, and the UNESCO-stamped historic core is now ringed by a sea of sparkling new, state-of-ubiquitiousness high-rises.
But I still like the place — the cultural mix and the general openness to outsiders is something special.
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