EXPATRIATE ABROAD

The accomodation research overseas : A problem in the most expensive cities in the world

" Finding a lodging or an accomodation appropriate to the citizen purse is a dilemma in a lot of cities around the world. The cause : the prices of housing have skyrocketed. Between 1996 and 2009, the prices stayed stable in Holland, England, Ireland, in Singapor, and USA whereas in Germany and Japan where the prices decreased. Nonetheless this rise of prices of accomodation (that regards France, Belgium, Sweden, Spain and New Zeland) has also touched african lands an asian ones (South Africa and Hong Kong). The main responsible : The town planning

" The cities centers are becoming the most dense populated areas because of the town planning. This trouble is due to the production of goods, medical care and to the services available in the megalpolis.Nevertheless living in cities centers does not seems to be the best solution for the population. Namely, unsalubrious, pollution, overpopulation and the reducing of the property parc are the aily conditions of housing for the population.This is the same thing in the suburbs where the town planning has increased the criminality, and the prices of accomodation.

It has also favoured the prostitution and the drugs. Before, a fkat or a studio flat located in the city center was reserved to the Haves, it is nowadays impossible to find an accomodation in the big capitals whithout breaking the money-box.This recurrent problem for the population has drived some countries to make equal the housing prices and the average wage per household.( In Australia, USA, and in England) This policy acted like a boomerang in thes countries because the prices oh housing stayed stable these 3 last years. In this fool market the expatriates seem to be the turkey of the joke.

In order to have a flat or a studio at their disposal they are obliged to spend the double of the initial price or to opt for the luxury of a hostel. To face this inconvenience an another alternative is up to them : the life in the campain or the corent. Even if the campains are far away from the cities center , campains offer to the population better conditions of hygiene, security and wellbeing. The housing prices are cheaper. Pollution risks are almost unexistant. So whereas houses and buildings were growing like mushrooms, thousand of people woke up everyday in campains where housing prices challenged every competition.

This alternative is offered to modest income people.

" The corent stays also an another alternative to absorb the housing price. This choice to live in common can be the solution to stay under the sifted lights and be in tune with big towns. Eventhoughthis solution is likely chosen by the expatriates , it stays often a second choice solution.

A present phenomenon in Africa

" Fleeing the hostility of the middle, the rural people felt back on capitals looking after better days. Those changements create currently problemsof housing and lodging that leads to a fast urbain growth. Because of the nomadism flow, the african cities went big surprisingly. the suburbs that were early dormitory areas are replaced by buildings and luxury ones. In some areas, the square meter is negociated for million franc. This occasion is exploited by the estate agencies which pay off their spending on the rent costs.

" Social lodging that were early an opulence sign became furnaces.Population crowding added to security and health problem have pushed several household to move. Those houses suit in general to young couples or single people to look after better tomorrows. Places to ban for expatriates because of electricity and water problems in some areas and so on rising the invoice of recurent problems. Today , in order to hold a furnished flat in one of the big cities of the UEMOA ( Dakar, Yaoundé, Abidjan), it costs between FCA franc 175 000 and 300 000 ) - € 300 and € 400 - per month. In these big cities it is impossible to find a free bedroom less than CFA franc 300 000 ( € 100). Thats is an utopia for those countries which welcome millions of tourists every year. These latest in majority French prefer most of the time stay in host families. It enables them to save money and to feel well surrounded and protected. At the current time, holding a flat abroad is like a miracle as the housing prices inflation is never stable. Added to that , the town-planning of the cities that push property developer to play with figures each end of the month. The solution which imposes itself is for the expatriates to live in campains or to privilegiate corent. That seems not to do the unanimity ..

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