> If you plan to spend most of your time in that broke/
> unemployed/unexceptional mode, please, leave North America
hmm, I might, at least they've got affordable DSL there, and haven't

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Some of the reasons they don't own it is because it is government land
that you can't convert without an army of lawyers.
In other cases, you originally had owners who didn't have the 'right' to
It is interesting to note that for several centuries in Japan it was a
death sentence to sell land.  They sold it anyway, and kept records.
In the US, we eventually got quite friendly with squatters and adverse
possession, and integrated out extra-legal arrangements and 'spontaneous
social contracts' into the official law.
Mr. Long, I think you'd particularly enjoy the De Soto work.
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 2:17 PM
> > Philippines, getting legal title can take 20 years.  In Egypt, about
> For people to be able to buy their own
> (how well off were the major landowners
> * In the US, we are not so friendly to
> our capitalists: adverse possession is
> Heck, in Egypt didn't they pretty much