How much do poor locals pay for apartment rent?
How much do poor locals pay for apartment rent?
How much do the poorest people pay for rent? I know they probably don't have electricity or running water or even toilets. How much do they pay?
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Re: How much do poor locals pay for apartment rent?
Come and see our immediate neighbours.
Rock bottom Khmer rentals are $25 / $30 / $40 / $50* a month in Siem Riep with one or two footprint loos for 5 family units, a pump worked with a handle (shared) and a
pay-per-meter electricity supply.
It is quite common for 2 or 3 or 4 unrelated people to share.
This is NOT at all the vile squalor of Engels' CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASS IN ENGLAND IN 1844 or Jack London's PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS; however, to an outsider (probably a Westerner who grew up in comfortable circumstances) seeing it for the very first time it looks a lot worse than it really is.
* The $50 rentals usually include one's very own loo, probably a footprint loo and more rarely a pedestal loo.
Rock bottom Khmer rentals are $25 / $30 / $40 / $50* a month in Siem Riep with one or two footprint loos for 5 family units, a pump worked with a handle (shared) and a
pay-per-meter electricity supply.
It is quite common for 2 or 3 or 4 unrelated people to share.
This is NOT at all the vile squalor of Engels' CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASS IN ENGLAND IN 1844 or Jack London's PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS; however, to an outsider (probably a Westerner who grew up in comfortable circumstances) seeing it for the very first time it looks a lot worse than it really is.
* The $50 rentals usually include one's very own loo, probably a footprint loo and more rarely a pedestal loo.
Re: How much do poor locals pay for apartment rent?
That doesn't sound too bad. Better than when I was in jail or homeless.
Re: How much do poor locals pay for apartment rent?
Sounds interesting, care to share?qutmor wrote:That doesn't sound too bad. Better than when I was in jail or homeless.
Re: How much do poor locals pay for apartment rent?
My story is too weird for this forum.PSD-Kiwi wrote:Sounds interesting, care to share?qutmor wrote:That doesn't sound too bad. Better than when I was in jail or homeless.
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Re: How much do poor locals pay for apartment rent?
in SihanoukvillePSD-Kiwi wrote:Sounds interesting, care to share?qutmor wrote:That doesn't sound too bad. Better than when I was in jail or homeless.
$30 can get you a room with a bed, a bathroom that consists a squat toilet + a cornered off section thats filled with water used for a bucket shower + water to flush the squat toilet, rooms have electricity,
these are the cheapest rented rooms i know about, and have stayed over in them on quite a few occasions (my friends places)
usually range between $30-50 depending on the quality of the place/age/location
dont think you will get cheaper than that, i have stayed with friends whos families live in the wooden houses/ tin houses in some of the more local areas, but i dont think these places are rented,
i dont have much in the way of photos,
but this is an area down an alley at the Golden Lions Roundabout, i have quite a few friends who live down here and they were paying i think $30pm (Feb2014)
this is the entrance, you walk through and there is a load of rooms
can see they have electric meter boxes
the "kitchen" lol
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Re: How much do poor locals pay for apartment rent?
I rented a 2 bedroom, kitchen and large living area bamboo hut for 100 thai baht per month ($3.30 at the time) . It was in BTB Providence no running water or bathroom. The land lady would bring me water from the local wat that was about 300 meters away.
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Re: How much do poor locals pay for apartment rent?
wise choice.
qutmor wrote:My story is too weird for this forum.PSD-Kiwi wrote:Sounds interesting, care to share?qutmor wrote:That doesn't sound too bad. Better than when I was in jail or homeless.
thru shit to more shit
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Re: How much do poor locals pay for apartment rent?
the floor is tiled, not too badJamie_Lambo wrote:
Money is not the problem, the problem is no money
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Re: How much do poor locals pay for apartment rent?
electric meter boxes...Jamie_Lambo wrote:
can see they have electric meter boxes
nope cant see them
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