britoo wrote
In my opinion this is not true or at best an apples to oranges comparison. If you mean because someone dug a hole in the garden and called it a pool well good luck - there's about 2.3 days per year (made up statistic) in the UK when you can actually use your outdoor pool so having one is more of a braggin' rights thing - it's certainly not practical.
If you mean because it's called a "villa", well even the romans said sod this ito the UK's shit weather and dark winters and went back home about a thousand years ago = to their underfloor heating, baths, aqauducts and mind blowing technology!
If your using London prices, then newsflash 75% of the UK isn't in London by population and so much more by land area!
The average house in the UK is now about 300k and as I pointed out to my previous landlord after the boundary wall fell down on a balmy summer evening on a 1-year old property, I'm still waiting for the wall of my 100-year old cottage to fall down. No rebar, not even cement - god bless lime!
And did I mention PPP?
Yes, the average houses in the UK are now around £300,000, but the villas that are sold in Bali, particularly the beachfront villas, would be worth £1,000,000 if you built them in the UK - especially if they were being built in places such as Devon, Cornwall or the South Coast of England which are the most similar to Bali in terms of being a holiday location. These beachfront villas come with marble floors, a swimming pool and immaculate internal rooms as good as anything you would see in Europe, but at a significantly lesser price. I suggest you come and view such a villa, and you may have a very changed opinion on their quality. Standards of new properties in Bali are dramatically rising, not least because developers have finally understood that international buyers won't accept some of the poorer homes that were being built previously, and that can only be a good thing.
