Re: Presidential IQs

RaeMorrill wrote:

I love where I am, but if someone offered me a ridiculous price I might take it and go find something else really nice. Selling it for market value wouldn't allow me to get something even better.

Places taken under eminent domain are *never* purchased at market value, much less over market value. It is a well-known and hard-to-get-around fact.

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Where no oxen are, the crib is clean,
But much benefit is derived from the labor of the ox.
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