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...“Most teachers don’t want to be sent here,” said Anthi Patramani, president of the secondary education officers’ association on the island. “When they come, there is drama.”...
...Its owners, the Barmpagiannis family, turned their near-500 acres of property here into a sustainably built mountain lodge, with just 62 suites....
...Expect a grand mix of owner show-arounds, good wine and convivial conversation, staying in a 17th-century manor outside Bridport....
...across the island....
...Branson has had a long association with the island....
...A large paved terrace, which gazes unencumbered out over the property’s epic panorama, is fitted with a fire pit, heated pool and spa....
...She says “correctly priced” properties are still selling — such as a 23 sq m studio at €315,000 on the Île Saint-Louis, an island in the Seine, purchased last month by a French investor — a marchand de biens...
...large original artwork by Jason Spivack atop a freestanding cupboard marks the start of the living zone: an alcove lined with floor-to-ceiling shelves packed with books and an L-shaped sofa opposite a fire...
...North Bay Road, Nautilus and La Gorce Island The truly privileged of Miami Beach live in enormous private waterfront mansions along North Bay Road, Pine Tree Drive and La Gorce Island....
...A round-bottomed iron pot would have been suspended here over an open fire....
...Nowadays, there’s a sure-fire way for a visitor to make it even less exciting....
...Registered in the British Virgin Islands in 2001, Forry was dissolved in 2016, BVI records show. Leaked documents show Forry was owned by Nomihold, another BVI-registered company with hidden owners....
...In the 1970s and 1980s, the Welsh nationalist group Meibion Glyndwr set fire to hundreds of English-owned second homes in Wales, and that tension is still palpable....
...Most lookouts are owned and rented out by the US Forest Service and cost as little as $45 per night (the Forest Fire Lookout Association provides a convenient listing at firelookout.org)....
...“I’m drinking out of a fire hose and breathing out of a paper bag,” she said, calling herself the type of business owner who found even the risk of a New Year’s Eve power outage stressful....
...On the road into Mati, a sprawling mound of branches and sawn-off tree trunks collected from damaged properties looms as a new fire hazard....
...Growth has slowed to its lowest level since the 2009 financial crisis tipped the island into recession....
...Smart fire security systems allow extinguishers automatically to detect and douse the source of a fire, rather than soak the contents of the entire property with a sprinkler system....
...“By anchoring the question of sharing world cultural property in the context of ‘restitution’, President Macron has sparked a fire that he will have a great deal of trouble extinguishing,” he says....
...The owners had recently died. The paperback at the end of their bookshelf: Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on May 1, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Although it might be wise to keep your clothes on — in mid-August a local café owner reportedly opened fire on nudist sunbathers after demanding they get dressed....
...Likewise, laundered money might be blamed for making property unaffordable, but it is also boosting the assets of affluent voters....
...Fire is part of the island’s ecology, and Barbera was encouraged as he knelt down by the road to see tiny pines rising from the black wastes....
...For that sum, its new owner will enjoy 1,200 sq ft of canalside space, a roof terrace and under-floor heating....
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