Email from a long-time Lammaite (who wants to remain anonymous, for obvious reasons):
"The whole class-based thing about Lamma is rapidly evaporating. There are guys on the ferries who make no secret, these days, of the fact that they are stock market types. Or maybe they are pretending.
Pls don't take any of my more cynical remarks about Lamma too seriously. But seriously, these days so many business suit types on the ferry, all of them ready with that "You're fired!" look. It's like a cheaper and nastier version of DBay.
The opposite, the potty-mouthed brigades in Lamma's not-so-great pubs, are worse.
The Lamma spirit? I don't really get it. A lot of the Western people on Lamma these days have no spirit at all. I don't think any of them have any interest in a community website with items like Artwork of the Day, purely bank balance of the day.
Nobody really gives a shit about Lamma. There I've said it."
Agree? Disagree?
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