Residential roulette

Since I first arrived in Poland in 1995, I’ve lost track of how many places I’ve lived in, but it has been at least thirteen. So I suppose I shall talk a little about the rental market, but that’s not all I’ve got to say. Before I moved into my current abode, I took a look at what was on offer on the PRS market in spite all the hype; but from my personal point of view I can say that it’s not all that it’s cracked up to be. I was offered a minimally furnished apartment, which wasn’t particularly cheap, and before I’d even got to the stage of signing the lease I was forced to jump through the administrative hoops of proving my income. When I left the UK, finding a place to live was all about finding a private landlord from a newspaper ad and paying a month’s rent in advance as a deposit. Not anymore. My brother recently returned to London after having lived in India, and since the UK market is now entirely dominated by PRS, he was for