Originally Posted by
LarryGee
We're still in the states, but planning to move over there in a couple of years, and maybe buy/build after traveling around for a year or so. I'm thinking that if we bought in a city somewhere, we could check out the neighborhood for flood damage.
Where we live in the US, we could get a 100-year deluge and never flood, because our house is built on rock and somewhat elevated. Some of our neighbors further down the street do get their basement flooded once in a while.
Last year we were in Chiang Mai and an over-friendly coffee shop owner lady took us to her neighborhood to try to sell us her son's house. It was way out of town (past the big mall), and right on the shore of a lake. The whole house was mildewed, and the entire street and sidewalks were covered with black algae or something.