The next decade....what's in store?

Room for rent?

I am going to be spending the greater part of 2006 in Grenada and have therefore started the search for somewhere to live.

The american university might be good for the island generally but bad for renters like me. Everybody who building in this Grand Anse area is targetting the students. They put in air conditioning because the students will not rent without AC, but then the prices are exhorbitant. The students will pay US$500 for a one bedroom unit!

When I was living here before, I was paying EC$1,400 per month....about US$600 for a two bedroom in Lance Aux Expines which is like a Beverly Hills, Upper Hope Pastures type area (those areas are in Jamaica) and it had two bedrooms, AC in both, washing machine and dryer, fully furnished etc. True....that was since 2001 but still. Things haven't gone up that much! Well, nothing but the ST George's University's student population!

I am going to rent a car tomorrow and drive around, looking for any house that has two electricity metres and knock on the gate and say "room for rent?" I won't buy a car, so it will have to be near the bus route. I will be yamming it...me and the yamfeet.