As a start, Yangon pretty much like Malaysia in 80's. Mini bus, old wagon taxis, people walking everywhere, pretty much crime free place. Personally, Yangon contained healthy mixture of everything. The people ranged from light complexion skin like East Asian people to dark complexion skin like West Asian people; make me feel at home. Food are wide range of taste and availability; thanks to neighboring countries influence; you got Chinese food, Indian food, Thai food, Malay food, fusion foods and so much more.
Is it safe? Of course it is. People in here carrying money in transparent plastic bag. When I say transparent, you literally could see the bulk of money in the bag plastic even from 50 meters away. It's a relatively safe country despite few outbreaks on ethnic/internal dispute.
Myanmar is a booming country, they just open their door to whole world and by GOD, all sorts of investment pouring in. Given the abundance opportunities available in the country, everyone want a piece of those pies. However, one thing that need to be reformed immediately is mindset. Having been in sanctioned status by USA for over 3 decades doesn't help with growing mindset, coupled with the education system and military government.
The people in here are receptive to changes despite their mindset still couldn't digest everything about the changes and they're nice bunch of people. Well, that is in Yangon, outside Yangon, some issues did surfaced in acceptance of outside influence especially anything that involved Muslim. I believe those are only temporary and with right communication and education, Myanmar people could accept that the intention is nothing more than to do business.
Well, that's that about this country. I find it easy to settle in compare to other countries that I had visited on business like Turkmenistan, Sudan, South Sudan, UAE (Dubai), Vietnam and Indonesia.
