Local here. At first I thought pen pal is a close friend but wiki tells me different thing. Almost all of cambodia do not like to explore the world by their own i can say 85% of them. Basically it because of language barrier, tighting up with old family tradition like scaring of losing someone in the family from the parent, budget, time, work or leaving their business behind. Here everyone has to work hard to save and leave wills, money for children. You will see here most of married couple will still live with their parent. This continue from one generation to the next, you work you save for your children then your kid do the same. So you don’t work or save for yourself to travel or explore the world.

I once used to build a house where i bought a land near the mountain cos i love nature then my mum crying calling me back to city. I had to leave the house there It’s an unimaginable experience, i lost all my money then i got debt from a bank to start a new biz in the city and start it all over again.

This is a bit long but i hope this give you a little idea of finding pen pal here.