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According to some scientist Bangkok will be under water in 10 – 15 years and it is really time to take that in before you invest in a Apartment or House in Bangkok.

Bangkok is on the 13 on the list and other big cities include Dhaka in Bangladesh; Buenos Aires in Argentina; Rio de Janeiro in Brazil; Shanghai and Tianjin in China; Alexandria and Cairo in Egypt; Mumbai and Kolkata in India; Jakarta in Indonesia; Tokyo and Osaka-Kobe in Japan; Lagos in Nigeria; Karachi in Pakistan; and New York and Los Angeles in the United States, according to studies by the United Nations.

So Thailand will not face the problem alone it will be a world event and even if you not believe in global warming the water level is has been raising steadily for many years.

Along with the new airport Bangkok is also built on a Swamp but since we have made roads on all the canals the rain water and raising water will have no where to go.
Let’s see if the politicians in Bangkok can agree on this and save Bangkok for all our sakes.

Looking at houses yesterday for rent and the difference between Bangkok and Pattaya is stunning. In Bangkok they are renting out houses for 350 000 THB a month and you can get the same house in Pattaya for 60 000 – 100 000 THB.

The house for 350 000 is not even in central Bangkok and if you add another hour to the traffic you just might move to Pattaya or at least put the family there. Then rent an apartment in central Bangkok and enjoy holiday quality life from Friday to Monday.

There is a 200 000 THB house in Pattaya for rent with infinite pool down to the beach so why rent or 350 000 in Bangkok.

So why is the difference so big? Well it’s mainly because all the companies are renting the houses for the employees working here and it is still cheap for them.

If you want to have real fun for your renting money you can buy a 300 Sqm big house with over 3200 sqm land for 200 000 THB. That’s right the rail way station house in the town of Gallo will be yours for the same kind of money you can rent a house in Thailand for one month.

The Thai Train that was slow before has been come down to a 50 % halt now when the rail road workers are on strike.

The strike is because the government wants to privatize the railway company and the person working there does not want that.

Now here are my thoughts about this

The fat bosses

The railroad boards of directores are a bunch of crocks and take bribes to rent out prime land way to cheap. For example the Central group has many of their department stores on railway land. There are many more cases like JJ market for example.
They don’t want the company to be private they would be fired.

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My first real power failure I had during the rainy season. The rain had made the power box for the whole block unstable and it just said bang! The whole block off houses went out and everything went pitch black. The bang was so loud and it was only 5 meter from our house.

One house has a key to reset the main power box or at least that’s how it works in Bangkok I do not know about other cities or in the country side. If the house that has the key is not home then you just have to wait until they come back and that can be the next day.

So what to do in a dark house with no power and its raining? You find a flash light but I had not bought one because that’s not the first thing you do when you move in to a new house in a new country.

The next day I went looking for flash lights but most lights where just crap so I start looking on the internet and found OpticsPlanet.net. They sell flash lights that to used by The Police, for Firefighting, military purposes and off course to people that had there first power blackout in Bangkok. They also sell pelican flashlights that are safe to use if you have a gas leak and can be used under water, witch is good because it can rain a lot in Thailand.
I bought a Pelican Laser and I am now ready for the next power blackout, bring it on!