How can an American buy a CHEAP house in 3rd World?

[valvebounce]

Originally Posted by hoytedow

This is built like a brick ****house. No, it is a brick ****house.

http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/buildin...k-Outhouse.jpg

I can see you have been constipated for a long time,there are plants growing outside your thunderbox door,whats the wreath for,somebody die in there?Haha.
Read your SA http thing,I have had the opinion that it would be a bloodbath there for years.Logically speaking,I dont think there is an answer and it will only get worse.Watching the news,it seems like China will eventually take over Africa,they are investing over there,and with their vast population they need a new vast land to populate.Maybe this will be the eventual answer.
I cant see the Chinese putting up with gang warfare,or over inflated mini kingdoms,it could be the saving grace of the place.Some vast changes are about to happen,it will take time,but I reckon it will be for the better.

[hoytedow]

It probably just smelled like somebody died.

We'll see who ends up with the yellowcake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake

population of mainland China is 1,339,724,852.

population of Africa is.............. 1,022,234,000.

Bodes ill for the rhinoceros.

[Yobarnacle]

change always happens. we can hope it's for the better. Wise to prepare for the worst.

[Yobarnacle]

I did not #2 in your outhouse Hoyt! I only your-inated!

[Yobarnacle]

HOW TO prepare for China dominating the world?
Study cantonese and mandarin dialects!

[hoytedow]

Bu xie! Bu Hao!

[Yobarnacle]

Bu Yao. Xie Xie

[hoytedow]

Wǎnān.

[valvebounce]

Originally Posted by Yobarnacle

valvebounce,
New housing construction is still way down in the US. The preferred status symbol of a brick home still exists in the US. In Louisiana, it's the WHITE brick home if you can afford it.
I read somewhere long ago, the appeal of a brick home, was because the earliest rich men in the colonies were ship captains. Heavy cargo of cotton, tobacco, rum, molasses, and timber sailed to europe and light cargos of tea, pottery, paper, fabrics and spices returned. The ships needed cheap ballast for return trip, so captain bought bricks. They were tossed out when reloading the ship and eventually captain had a big pile. When he was rich and ready to build a home, being a thrifty yankee, he used the pile of bricks.
Since the rich men lived in brick homes, it became a status symbol. In truth, brick as a building material has many negatives. Labor intensive, weak except as a facade, and poor insulator.
Wish you all the best

Yobarnacle,
great bit of info there,so we can presume that many of the original US brick houses were built of English clay bricks.
We were taught at college that brick buildings stand the expansion of the changes in the weather,plus,if built correctly,the ravages of time.Modern brick house construction,in my opinion is second to none,if the foundations are deep and wide enough,and far enough out of the ground before the dampcourse with good insulation they are superior to panelled or sheeted properties.
I have built houses where expense wasnt a problem,they were not over expensive,just built without money grabbing in mind.I found it a pleasure to build them,and nice to say to myself "I built that"
I can revisit my "Works of art"just by getting in my car and driving by them.
To me,they are my personal monuments to history,plus the fact that I have provided shelter for for my fellow man for years to come.Quite a satifying feeling really.
Happy new year.

[Frosty]

Originally Posted by Passin Thru

Ya! You can have 2 Thai women living with you and if you get tired of them just send them away after 1 year. You can get a massage with 3 women, or even "Happy Ending Massage" with 3 women, However it is the jungle, services are basically 3rd world as in Police, electricity, mail and banks althought banks are catching up. Food is great in Pattaya. If they go fishing they eat everything so fishing in Gulf of Thailand is depleted and make sure you live above 80 ft sea level as Tsunami killed a lot of people.

??? Police are Ok no trouble with them at al.l Electricity is 220V and is continuous ( what more do you want) post is faultless if you have a post code and a proper adddress I hear this complaint many times from people who live out in the jungle and expect post.

banks are ubiquitous and professional with all the services you would expect and very cheap for international TT or banker drafts.

Fishing is not good in the Gulf because it is in the gulf!!! fish are there. Tsunamis do not bother the gulf-- can it?

Mind you ive only lived here 23 years.

[valvebounce]

Originally Posted by hoytedow

It probably just smelled like somebody died.

We'll see who ends up with the yellowcake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake

population of mainland China is 1,339,724,852.

population of Africa is.............. 1,022,234,000.

Bodes ill for the rhinoceros.

Never eat yellow snow.
Plenty of room for a population explosion I reckon,like water,it will always find its own level.
Rhino's are like Politicians-thick skinned.
Food for thought-If the western world hadnt gone to Africa to milk it,and given the populace a fair shake,what do you think the situation would be now?Do as you would be done by springs to mind

[Passin Thru]

Funny how ones sees thing differently but I don't like the police in Pattaya or Indonesia. We have a driver in Indonesia and if they pull him over they always want money and he's funny because he will argue with them and they let us go but he does'nt let us talk at all. He aways says, "1 word of English will cost you," and our house being near Ahmed is 4 hrs from the Denpasar Airport. The people are good, food is great and weather more to my liking than Pattaya. And the electricity is just the same, maybe yes, maybe no/

[valvebounce]

Yobarnacle,
It would be an honour to build you a row of "S/it houses"but have you considered getting a pre-pack from 1600 pensylvania avenue.If you have any difficulty they have more than enough at 10 Downing st,they are all supplied with a pre-pack smell,but you will need your own gas mask unfortunately Haha

[Yobarnacle]

Well, a privy would be a luxury! I'm redneck thru and thru, not counting part redskin too. You can tell if a redneck is considering moving. He starts crappin closer to the house.

[Yobarnacle]

just funnin. Here in Mexico, our townhouse has one n a half baths for just mrs and me. And we own 3 more identical townhouses in same complex, all rented.