Hot housing estates!

[Randy Cornhole]

I am beginning to wonder if it is possible to buy a nice house around the 3 million mark without having to live on what ammounts to a hot council estate brimming with ferang?
I come to Thailand to escape stress and my fellow countrymen not to end up living amongst them!
Now I realise that this may upset a few people, to them I say sorry but to me the idea of living in a beautiful hot country in a house that is on average 5 ft from the next one horrifies me.
I currently live in a rented bungalow with no one near me, I have no more worries about security than I would back home, in fact less so.
I talk to all my neighbours and recieve smiles and nothing but goodwill back.
When I have visited various estate agents with my request for a bungalow in my price range not on a housing project I am stared at and asked why I could not possibly want to live in one!
Am I the only one who wants peace and solitude and not to live in a ticky tacky box?

[SHADOW]

I know were you are coming from, sure for some being able to see, smell etc their next door neighbour may be ok. But I do find it strange that people want to live crammed up agaist everybody else. I like to walk out side and see trees, hills,birds and best of all no one is two feet away banging pots and pans, barking dogs and the rest. 3 mil will buy you a house out of town were the sound of silence is deafening.

[buksida]

Houses get cheaper the further away from civilization you get so for three mil you should have no problem finding (or building) a little bungalow in the arse end of nowhere.

I hear your point also, I mean who does want to live next door to Herman from Stuttgart with his 13 German Shepards, Bjorn from Stockholm who brings half of soi Bintabaht back every night or a pack of Thai teenagers from Yasothon that insist on having the noisiest two strokes ever created and playing guitar very badly at all hours.