Cheap real estate in France. Need I say more? Okay, maybe a little. First off, euros are currently about 20% above the dollar, so 80k euros is in the neighborhood of 100k dollars. Now know that the wine country of france is lousy with old barns for 50k dollars or so, for conversion; or, if you’re a wuss who needs a house that you can actually sleep and shower in, like, now and shit, figure a hundred thousand. not so different from backwoods usa prices, true; but you can own your own vineyard, and get f’rinstace 500 bottles of free wine a year (basically, you just sell the grapes to a vintner in exchange for payback in cash or wine, and pay a bit to have it bottled).

how about this: 5 acres with a lake for about 40k american.




this house, for about 70k murkin, needs no work, but seems overrun by triffids (use the shotgun!)




And then there is this rather cryptic entry for about 90k yankee bucks. The description is as follows: “A wonderful view under a small lake for this house dated XVIII century. It just need renovation.” Is it sunk, like a little piece of atlantis in bretagne?

anyway, it’s been pointed out in one of the lefty websites that france is looking pretty good. buy a cheap house, drink wine, eat cheese and bread, work a little if you’re bored (but not as friggin’ hard as you’d work here!) and be safe from the bushists in a free country with nukes. like i said, this is like porn to me.