In Reply to: totally agree with your coments posted by keren on Wednesday, 6. April 2016 at 17:04 Bali Time:
you obviously have missed out on taking your pills again.
I am not distrustful about Bali.
I have total trust in all strange drivers, money changers, Immigration officers, police, customs, taxi drivers and ladies and gentlemen of the night.
I believe also that the bag snatchers as mentioned above are just doing tourists a favour by helping them to carry their bags for them.
Like you, I believe that the porters who pretend to be taxi drivers at the airport to make newbies arrivals so memorable by trying to exhort cash from them by deception are "just village people trying to eke out a living".
I also recognise that those who hang around ATM machines are there simply to help should you forget your PIN number.
My total trust has enabled me to run businesses in Bali, complete large and small projects and generally survive some 25 years of learning about the place and other Indonesian locations.
I achieved all this by having total trust in Indonesians and pretty much putting myself into their caring hands.
We are entirely on the same page.