Your own personal landing strip.
Your own personal landing strip.
Honey, I'm just going outside to mow the lawn. I'll see you in two weeks.
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.
Fucking Christ.
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.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigneurial_system_of_New_France
tl;dr It's all France's fault
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.
You could build a literal infinity pool…
“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.”
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.
Ah yes, my vegetable plot lots in Manor Lords!
How to minimise number of roads, i guess?
I'd put the house farther back, at least give the illusions of having land around me.