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RE: Straight It Is!
How interesting! I imagine they have sluice gates or dikes to control the water level when it rains and things like that.
A floating house sounds interesting, almost like a Motorhome. Just yesterday I saw a movie where a policeman lived in a houseboat, or small yacht, and it seemed like a tempting idea!
The houseboats can no longer sail; they simply float or are towed. They all have a registered address and are moored at the quay of a canal. In winter, when it freezes, you have to chop the ice around your boat.
You can still get away in a yacht, or in a camper van.
There used to be a woman whoblived on one and looked after cats. She used to take in all the stray cats on her houseboat. Now it’s an official organisation. I think those cats are still on a houseboat in the canal, only there’s no one living there anymore.
We also pay for the dykes extra taxes + for water building... the quality isn't that great they leak.
Now they want more taxes... most likely they wasted it in something else, since the taxes go up and they invent more like war taxes...
It is true that building a house on water and maintaining it requires a lot of taxes because houses built on land are fine, but houses built on water require a lot of maintenance, and the lives of these people are a little different from the lives of ordinary people because they have to work hard and do a lot of work. In addition, their means of traveling are also different.
Very true. It is a complete different lifestyle. At times we forget the houses and everything are built in the water. If you look closely you can see, many houses are no longer straight, still flexible enough to not fall apart.
Here you can see a building that leans forwards 👇
It scares me a little. But I suppose they'll do maintenance on the submerged foundations!
That is what one should think...
I actually noticed this too, but I ignored it, thinking it was just my eyesight. Now that you've explained it, it's true that this building is shaking a little.
It can be noticed all over the city and the same you find in other cities.
Wow! And the advantage I saw in the houseboat was that if you didn't like your neighbors, you could just sail away to better ports.
Now there are directions even in the water. They control us completely, and on top of that, they're wasting our taxes!
You can take the axe for the ice and use it for the neighbour's boat ...
Water with us isn't free. You cannot just decide to buy a boat and put it there. If you like to fish you need a paper and to pay a fee.
If you have a boat or yacht you need a license plus you pay for wherever you want it to be or stay. Taxes are generated out of everything. The more you own, the more taxes, payments, worries...debts, loans and more loans ..
It seems that with the taxes on everything, there will come a time when only the rich will live in the Netherlands and it will be impossible for us to survive there.
The rich intend to make one big datacenter out of the Netherlands and force farmers to stop. Without farmers, no food. Not only for us but also many others abroad. I doubt they care about people...
The new world will be one of slavery like in the book: Brave New World.
Saw the film: The Hunger Games? Or the series " The Silo"?
It is a fact that it is impossible to live without various shops and farmers. Therefore, if we say that only rich people can live in such places, it is not possible because they also get the essential items they need to live from shops and farmers.
Those cheering the loudest farmers should disappear are the present young adults, spoiled 25-35 years old. Not understanding a thing about food. Same for thei children. School filled their brains with nonsense.
I read your other comment about understanding things too late. Do not worry about that. It is the goodness of your heart why people fool you or put you on the wrong track.
This BOOMING vote is yours and well deserved!
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I attribute this to my own mistake rather than to other people, because sometimes something right in front of us goes unnoticed, and we only realize it much later.
It's no wonder foreigners who come to Paraguay feel like they're in paradise, even though the country seems like a medieval village in many ways haha... But taxes are low. That said, don't expect the healthcare system to save your life!
What makes you believe it will here? I haven't visited a doctor since they messed up the last time which is at least 13 years ago...
Not that it is easy to get an appointment for ten minutes max.
Well, I suppose that even though the system is a disaster, I don't think university degrees sell as well as they do in my country. We have doctors, lawyers, and teachers practicing with degrees they bought. They didn't complete the required coursework. Does something like this happen in your country?
Yes, it does exist especially if:
Big mouth, bragging, showing diploma made in the internet pretending you studied here or abroad, does the trick too.
Ia journalist tried..within 30 minutes (reading wikipedia for 10-20 minutes) to give the right answers) he was hired as a: pilot, surgeon and some more jobs one should think an education isneeded.
Imagine: pilot!
They say it is hard to check the diploma since schools and universities change them through the years, AI does the rest and if it comes to it no one cares except banks may check you out + the government.
They sound like fiction, but it happens, and in many places. I'm honestly afraid I might need a doctor in the future. That's not even mentioning that many young people now just want to be influencers or gamers!
I have obtained quite detailed information about this and have come to know that these houses do not float on water but stand firmly in their place just as houses built on land stand firmly in their place because the pillars placed under these houses are so long and deep that they do not allow these houses to move.
Exactly. I still remember the sound It heard for weeks of not months during my childhood, it lasted the entire day, as they put those piles into the earth.
We have a saying that building a house on water is like building a house on water, and that saying proves to be absolutely true here.
I am not sure what is meant by it since the translation says twice the same.
Building a house on water is like what?