I never expected it to be so damn difficult to find somewhere decent, fairly priced, and with no pressures to pack your bags again in a hurry. Maybe I'm just fussy but the places I've looked at so far are either:
a) In a narrow soi with more dogs than disney, screaming teenagers on two-strokes and enough kids to open a school.
b) So sparse that you'd need to purchase an entire Ikea franchise to make living there comfortable.
c) So expensive that you'd think you were renting a four bedroom ocean view mansion complete with pool and playboy hunnies. Not a 2 bedroom dingy townhouse in the Hua Hin backwater suburbs.
d) Four hundred kilometers away from the nearest civilisation ... or shop that sells beer.
e) The perfect place in all aspects but the owner wants half the value of the house as a deposit and a years rent up front.
f) No telephone line so I cant even work to earn the cash to pay the rent.
Just what is it with Thai people and renting houses? "You are Farangs, you must have at least 120,000 baht as loose change in your pocket, give it to me for the privilege of renting my shed."
If anyone can help I'd be most grateful ... or am I asking too much !?
And that concludes the rant of the day.
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