Times have changed since we last lived in Oman. During our last journey, our house was provide by our employer, so we didn't get a chance to experience what my Sweet is going through right now!
Continents apart, I have been browsing homes on the internet and sending my Sweet the links to follow up from there. This is where the modern way and the ancient part ways!
The system seems to be that you call the agent listing the property for rent and then you are taken to the property where the owner of the property will come with the keys to open the home.
But this is Arabia. The experience so far has been interesting to say the least.
It kind of goes like this:
- The agent turns up but the owner doesn't.
- The agent shows you a home way over budget.
- The agent shows a house in the part of town you did not asked for.
- Everyone shows up and shows a property in the correct part of town, within budget but with the wrong number of bedrooms for a family of 5.
- No-one shows up!
With my Sweet doing double shifts right now he only has small windows of time to view these homes. I had forgotten what Arabia is like. It is like the sands, forever changing depending on the conditions of the wind..
And this is why we love the place. Nothing is ever normal! It matches out lives. Never boring; never predictable.
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