Why didn't *I* think of that?

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  London bridge used to be a big version of this

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Before it fell down?

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Before it burned

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  • copd@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You guys should try visiting Florence, Italy.

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  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The bridge town is pretty cool, until the Tenosians show up and throw the nobles off of it.

    ~Reference ~

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    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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!

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Same reason Howl’s castle moves.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And those cities in that one movie

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• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You wouldn’t think it from that gloomy picture but Ambleside is a really nice town. Top visit!

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  • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I assumed that was just how the UK looked most of the time.

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    • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There is the occasional day or two a year where the sun has been observed…

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  • Mantelmann@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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• cute_noker@feddit.dk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So… Did it work? Asking for a friend

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  • Aux@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There were loads of bridge houses in the UK.

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• TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not that this is one, but the medieval bridges with houses either side of the street would probably look super cool these days :3

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  • Kornblumenratte@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They would look super cool? They do look super cool!

    Krämerbrücke Erfurt

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    • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      True :3… I just wasn’t aware of any that weren’t demolished x3

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I actually like seeing people live versions of my dream, cuz at least somebody is lol.

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  • Shou@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  you could probably pull this off with a boat nowadays.

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No property tax on a boat but property tax on my '94 Corolla? What kinda damn bullshit…

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      i cant even sleep on my old bike, and i still have property tax to pay for it.

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    • bob_lemon@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

      locksandroses.com/costs-of-owning-a-narrowboat.ht…

      gov.uk/…/river-thames-boat-registration-charges

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    cruisingthecut.co.uk/…/council-tax-for-canal-boat…

    No council tax, but instead pay roughly the same amount each year to the Canal & River Trust or other water authorities.

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• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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”.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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• kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Someone explain to me how this tax loophole works…I need to know.

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  • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Pro tip: build your house in an alternate dimension, and no one will make you pay taxes; although the commute is somewhat inconvenient.

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      A Douglas Adams tier comment. Congratulations.

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  • KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ah, so this is why all land in the US extends to a body of water center.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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

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• Ferrous@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ll give my shiniest nickel to whoever can tell me if and when a land tax started being enforced.

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  • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Give your nickel to Wikipedia.

    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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• bigFab@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Beautiful

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