A few years ago I looked into buying a place in the Florida Keys. No state income tax, but annual land value tax to squeeze the snow birds. Each town appeared to set their own % and they seemed to co… (View Post)

Also, Gareth writes 'shoe in' instead of 'shoo in'. A minor blemish in an otherwise excellent header. (View Post)

A paradox in the 1930s was people driving around in cars searching for unspoiled, merrie England, and in so doing hastening its demise. In search of England by HV Morton being the classic example. (View Post)

All it lacks is a picture of Dorian Gray. (View Post)

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look, He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. (View Post)