London bridge used to be a big version of this
Before it fell down?
Before it burned
Burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.
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Don’t we all ?
I think it’s retired to Arizona at this point
Lake Havasu City!
You guys should try visiting Florence, Italy.
The bridge town is pretty cool, until the Tenosians show up and throw the nobles off of it.
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As if nobles can’t be thrown off of their castles and spires on land too. At least maybe that way they can try and dive, try that in Scotland on a huge…tract of land!
It was very common to build on bridges in European cities. Seeing the river was rare. There are a few subsisting examples, but most houses are gone.
Same reason Howl’s castle moves.
And those cities in that one movie
You wouldn’t think it from that gloomy picture but Ambleside is a really nice town. Top visit!
I assumed that was just how the UK looked most of the time.
There is the occasional day or two a year where the sun has been observed…
Can confirm, incredibly lovely place to exist in and go hiking. And when I was there recently, every day except the first one was incredibly bright and sunny; I almost felt robbed of the essential british experience.
Not that this is one, but the medieval bridges with houses either side of the street would probably look super cool these days :3
They would look super cool? They do look super cool!
True :3… I just wasn’t aware of any that weren’t demolished x3
There’s also one in Florence, Italy.
And Pulteney Bridge in Bath, England.
So… Did it work? Asking for a friend
There were loads of bridge houses in the UK.
you could probably pull this off with a boat nowadays.
No property tax on a boat but property tax on my '94 Corolla? What kinda damn bullshit…
i cant even sleep on my old bike, and i still have property tax to pay for it.
Not quite. Boats need to be registered with the environmental agency, there’s mooring fees, and licenses from the canals and rivers trust (the is the UK after all), and probably some more I haven’t found yet.
https://www.locksandroses.com/costs-of-owning-a-narrowboat.html
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/river-thames-boat-registration-charges
https://cruisingthecut.co.uk/2024/01/23/council-tax-for-canal-boats/
No council tax, but instead pay roughly the same amount each year to the Canal & River Trust or other water authorities.
I actually like seeing people live versions of my dream, cuz at least somebody is lol.
This ^
Honestly. Jelousy is one thing, seeking to destroy someone out of it is another. It’e better to become friends, and see if you can learn something from them. Or perhaps network for luck.
Someone explain to me how this tax loophole works…I need to know.
Pro tip: build your house in an alternate dimension, and no one will make you pay taxes; although the commute is somewhat inconvenient.
A Douglas Adams tier comment. Congratulations.
Looks like no land tax because the house is not on land. The river undoubtedly is town/city property, so taxation of the land wouldn’t work.
Ah, so this is why all land in the US extends to a body of water center.
That’s how it works pretty much everywhere these days. A well known loophole closed.
Guess the river is the boarder between different tax systems so on the bridge you avoid both. Hard to implement in the modern day I guess
This is why very old houses in Louisiana had no closets - your property tax was assessed on the basis of how many closets you had. Also, they liked spelling “armoire”.
In many places it was based on the number of windows, or on the width of the street facing façade… leading to odd styles of construction. It’s been a game of cat and mouse for quite some time.
I’ll give my shiniest nickel to whoever can tell me if and when a land tax started being enforced.
Give your nickel to Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax
Tl;dr: 6000 BCE in ancient Iraq. It predates money, so they’d pay in whatever they used the land for.
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