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Anon does genealogy (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Good news, I hear you can probably get a castle for fairly cheap. Only problem is you have to maintain it.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    From whom? Was it a little gnome peeking out from behind a mushroom?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Quite a few countries, Italy for example, will either sell you a castle for dirt cheap or just give it to you, as long as you promise to restore and maintain it.

    Which is, to be clear, an absolute pain in the ass, since those castles have very strict restrictions about how to repair and upgrade them, materials and even companies you’re allowed to use, etc. Not to mention they’re a bitch to heat in the winter.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    The cheapest castle in Italy I can see from a cursory glance is 1.3 million euros. You must be on that good gnome shit.

    Edit: that's an outside area of 732m² and an internal of 184m². It's a literal tower on a tiny plot for 1.3 million dollars. Nothing about that seems remotely close to cheap.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It costs as much as normal house closer to the city. This makes it cheaper than one would expect for a giant historically important castle. If those were built today by modern standards they would cost much more.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    So what you mean to say is castles are relatively cheap, not that they are actually cheap?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Italy Giving Away More Than 100 Castles, Villas and Monasteries for Free https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/italy-giving-away-100-castles-villas-monasteries-free/

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Everything that is cheap is relatively cheap. Nothing is cheap in absolute sense. Most of ut is based on my ginancial situation if I have zero € everything is expensive.

    Or the other example how low number does bot make someyhing cheap. If 1 byte of mobile internet data costs only 0.01€ is that cheap or expensive? But it is only 1c.

    To talk about cheap or expensive you are always talking about either how much similar items usually cost or how easily you specifically can afford it. But it is always relative.

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