And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Wild faux chateaux housing development in Turkey goes kaput.
When construction started in 2014, the Burj Al Babas was supposed to be a luxury residential retreat for wealthy investors from the Middle East. The $200 million complex called for 732 identical homes in the style of the French chateaux, each with an ornate facade, Juliet balconies, and a round turret fit for a princess. The interiors could be customized to the buyer’s desires.
The cookie-cutter mini-castles were going for anywhere from $370,000 and $530,000, and according to Bloomberg, plenty of people were already buying them. Just not enough, apparently. By the time the developer filed for bankruptcy, they had completed 587 homes and were $27 million in debt.
Who would live like that? And after it rains and snows on those half finished "chateaux," how much damage and black mold will there be? Is there a Trader Joe's nearby?
It's over for these guys.
Hat Tip: Instapundit
If I had a chateau, I'd want land around it and not an identical chateau next door. And it's Turkey, the newly minted Muslim paradise.
ReplyDeleteWhat LL said; besides that, they're so close together!
ReplyDeleteThis is like a fairytale village made out of government housing, and that's no combination that I'd want to have.