7mo 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."
- 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...
- I want to know how this even got platted.
  
  I think the other commenter comparing this to the Quebec/French system of land division has it right. From satellite view, you can see the distinct shape of narrow strip lots perpendicular to the flow of the Bayou Lafourche. In the distant past, waterway access then was the equivalent of truck access from the Interstate freeways today: paramount for getting goods to market.
- 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.
- Pave that badboy
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 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.
Honey, I'm just going outside to mow the lawn. I'll see you in two weeks.
“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!
If it was in the right area, great for a shooting range after some earth moving.
Setting up a target and loosing arrows at obscene ranges accurately is fun though.
- That property is like 45ft by 1.5 miles, with a half mile of that past the occupied structures to the East and wilderness downrange.
You could build a literal infinity pool…
Garfield knew what to do with this.
I'd put the house farther back, at least give the illusions of having land around me.
How to minimise number of roads, i guess?
Every homeowner's dream is to maintain 3 miles of fencing.

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