Steve and I went down to Chesapeake to look for a house this last weekend. We were really hoping to get a newly built house. Well...that's not going to happen. Every single place we looked at had something really, really wrong with it. One was in a swamp (plus it wouldn't be ready in time); several were too close to the freeway; one was too close the Navy airfield where f-18 hornets circled overhead, non-stop; one was 20 feet from the railroad tracks (that one also had what appeared to be drug dealers squatting in it). After looking at all those places, and feeling a bit discouraged, Steve suggested we look at some suggested neighborhoods. Bingo! We found the Great Bridge area to be totally to our liking. We will visit again in April and hopefully find that dream-house!
"When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England."
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