Comment on Anon does some genealogy
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I hear that. My grandfather was descended of German nobility. Nothing major, but he was the son of a prince. To be clear: a complete.nobody even when German nobility was still a thing pre-WW1. After the war, they pretty much abolished all that in a revolution.
But basically, if I go back four generations, we owned a ‘castle’ somewhere. Meanwhile, I’m solidly in the peasant class.
Baggie@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Good news, I hear you can probably get a castle for fairly cheap. Only problem is you have to maintain it.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
From whom? Was it a little gnome peeking out from behind a mushroom?
Seleni@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Quite a few countries, Italy for example, will either sell you a castle for dirt cheap or just give it to you, as long as you promise to restore and maintain it.
Which is, to be clear, an absolute pain in the ass, since those castles have very strict restrictions about how wo repair and upgrade them, materials and even companies you’re allowed to use, etc.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
The cheapest castle I can see from a cursory glance is 1.3 million euros. You must be on that good gnome shit.