Monterey is a bit of a hole; next door Carmel is rather nice and is worthy of a visit. If you get a chance, make it down to Big Sur. (View Post)

I'm merely pointing out that @DavidL is exaggerating the size of the hole that needs to be filled by taxing residential property. (View Post)

Wait. Coppola only made one mistake with Apocalypse Now? (View Post)

You don't need anything like 1%. According to Savill's the total value of residential real estate in the UK is 9.1 trillion. 1% would therefore raise 91 billion. Not only that, but you would also wan… (View Post)

A 1% property tax (which you can probably cut to 0.6-75% if you have higher tiers for rarely used properties) could have been a fabulous driver of leveling up. It would have made living (and having b… (View Post)