Thieving, skanking, gypsy bastards!

Published June 9, 2007

Sorry, there hasn’t been an update to this blog for a while, I’ve been in the UK taking care of business, I’ll be back in paradise in a week so and will resume blogging from the island when I get back.

In the meantime I just have to blog about this topic, it’s pissed me off a little and shows me exactly where the island, my home, is heading.

Let’s first of all invent somebody named Fred so that I don’t get into all sorts of problems for slandering somebody on my website, I know Fred, not well, he’s part of the local village community I live in, I’ve spoken to him a few times.

Fred just finished building a house on the island, it’s not a bad house, not my cup of tea but ok, I know exactly how much it cost to build (if he’s telling the truth) and it is a little over 2,000,000 Baht.

So today I am surfing the net as you do, I ended up on a property website for Koh Phangan, I was looking around this site because it was quite badly designed and I was enjoying seeing such a good demonstration of want outstripping skill. A virtual case of eyes bigger than the belly so to speak.

I noticed a thumbnail of Fred’s house and was surprised to see it up for sale as construction was only completed a couple of months ago, so took a closer look. I read the blurb about the house, looked at the pictures (cunningly taken to hide the fact the plot is surrounded by local development) and when I get to the bottom and read the price I almost fall off my chair. They are asking over 6,000,000 Baht! That’s a 200% profit margin!

This kind of person blatantly has no interest in living on the island for it’s character and beauty, they are here for a quick buck. Fred has a habit of criticising the Thai workers who built the house for him, he comments often on their greed, laziness and untrustworthiness.

I reckon Fred fits in quite well with them don’t you think? A real kindred spirit so to speak.