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PaperclipPerfector  10mo ago (text post)   2600 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for July 14, 2023

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Buy your own Motte & Bailey, comes with 10 bedroom house. Only £1.7MM

https://www.knightfrank.co.uk/properties/residential/for-sale/bronllys-brecon-powys-ld3/WRC012361727

https://content.knightfrank.com/property/wrc012361727/images/7f42e827-2472-44e8-b356-ae7e19d82fb3-0.jpg?cio=true&w=1200

Always good to have a sewage works within your bailey...

My wife gets similar listings on some Facebook group all the time, and I'm constantly struck by how it's possible to live like a literal English lord in North America on basically middle class incomes, or less -- I have more acres for something like 20% of that price, even after the recent property value inflation. No subdivision across the street (nor caravan park!), and certainly no sewage works within 20 miles.

No keep on mine, but come on man -- put a roof on that thing!

I read that Chuck Palahniuk built a small tower by hand on his place as a Covid hobby/bodybuilding program -- how hard can it be?

The price is higher in the UK because it comes with serfs that you can oppress for fun and profit.

Migrant workers are even better -- once you are done with them you just send them away, none this noblesse oblige bullshit.

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