Fact really is stranger than fiction. The BBC reports today that house prices in Afghanistan’s capital are soaring. Most obviously, one ex-pat has this to say:-
According to Richard Scarth, day-to-day life in Kabul remains relatively unaffected despite the global downturn.
“That is because the economy is UN-driven,” he says. “Money just keeps coming in regardless of what is happening in the wider world.”
The Nazmanian Devil 