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Flying Squid @lemmy.world

3mo ago

Your own personal landing strip.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2932-Highway-1-Raceland-LA-70394/119427107_zpid/?

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Just the place for my linear particle accelerator
- Great place for a good golfer to practice. Terrible place for a bad golfer to practice though
- "How's it working out?"
  "Not sure, no one has ever made it to the end to check yet."

Holy shit OP, you're underselling it with that pic.
I'm pretty creative at thinking on land use, no idea what to do with NINE linear acres.
Well, it's Louisiana, plenty easy to grow shit. Fence and forest it, hunk a bunch of chickens and rabbits out there? Sprinkle in a couple of tiny ponds? Setup a poker shack out in the woodsy area? The mind boggles.
"Honey? Can you grab some peppers out the garden?"
"Aw hell Mabel, those sonsofremoved are a half-mile deep and we ain't got 4-wheeler gas."
EDIT: Can't stop looking at this. 7680', 1.5 miles long and 58' wide. You would have to have a 4-wheeler to get any work done out there.
- You would have to have a 4-wheeler to get any work done out there.
  You are missing the perfect opportunity for a small guage miniature train line. Just big enough that you can sit on it and drag a few supplies the length of the back yard.
  
  That sounds amazing. Now I want the house...
- A very long lap pool. Then use the building work to disguise the construction of your underground lair. If you can't build up or sideways, then build down.
- 3.7 hectare and 2.4km long while less than 18m wide. That is insane. But it got sold.

OP discovers river lots. Lots like this are an old design, that allowed everyone access to the river while giving you a decent amount of land. They are very common in Ontario, and such.
They are also a fucking nightmare if you're doing any sort of survey in the area, that requires land access because for a given area, you now have to negotiate with 350 land owners instead of like 30.
- This seems a bit egregious for a lot, it's just over 50 ft wide and nearly a mile and half long. It looks more like a developer made the "lot" to develop the rest of the nearby homes then managed to get a house built on it.
  
  I get it, but there's a logic to it being so long if you think about it: flooding. You want river access without risking your house getting washed away. As I said, it's an old lot layout method - like from the mid 1800s or earlier, with ties to how things were laid out in France originally.
  Also, 'great for hunting' in the ad. Lmao.

“Everything the sun touches, far beyond the horizon, is my domain. As long as you don’t drift more than 20 meters left or right.”

Ah yes, my vegetable plot lots in Manor Lords!

Louisiana? I’m guessing that before the Louisiana Purchase, they had similar non-primogeniture-based inheritance laws to Quebec, resulting in properties being divided into ever-thinner strips with each generation.

You can very clearly pinpoint the moment where myself and most anyone younger than me lost all hope of ever owning a home. What the fuck.

Every homeowner's dream is to maintain 3 miles of fencing.

Honey, I'm just going outside to mow the lawn. I'll see you in two weeks.

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