Overnight News: Real estate is kids and dogs – and that’s why the freehold is a better place to live.

As revisited yesterday, the fee estate is a defensible redoubt, a freehold – which may come to matter, alas, as it has many times in America’s past. But for most people, most of the time, detached and separated housing is simply the most practical way to have the most friction-free freedom while still reaping the benefits of low-overhead commerce.

Translation: How can you live free of your neighbors’ complaints about your dog’s barking or your kid’s loud music and still live close enough to civilization to have a job and snag some drive-thru?

You do it with your own dirt, that’s how.

Wall it, gate it, build an armory and an arsenal – or just play croquet in the back yard: It’s yours to do with as you choose, which is the point.

Multi-family housing lost its luster last year – it’s a disease vector, widely-known since Rome, at least – with 2021 piling its own rubble onto the pile. When I lived in Fun City, the drummers would typically stop practicing around 3 am, and the opera singers wouldn’t get started much before 5, so there was always plenty of time to sleep. 😉

Real estate is kids and dogs because they are the impetus behind the move. We have learned a lot about housing from the pandemic and from the riots: The Hoplites were right. The freehold is a better place to live.

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