18 Comments

The cost of living is cheap, but so is life?

Expand full comment

Acme Fencing?

Expand full comment

I lived in a gated community once! But I got paroled.

Expand full comment

But later, they'll agree that "Sky people" and "Mole people" take too long to say, and shorten it to "eloi" and "morlocks."

Expand full comment

Joe McGinniss' neighbor?

Expand full comment

Pssh, It's not because they "don't belong," or anything like that. They're just dressed that way to tie the fencing in with the whole design!

Expand full comment

The fences around my house/property consist of forest on three sides and a road on the fourth.

Expand full comment

Walter Ulbricht?

Expand full comment

Up river, you can get a Manhattan-style apartment in a secure gated community essentially for free, if you are willing to put up with guard towers, razor wire, a long-term, unbreakable lease and a rather stubborn and inflexible HOA Board.

Expand full comment

Florida: Avoid the snow, enjoy the hurricanes.

Expand full comment

The Ming Dynasty?

Expand full comment

Fortunately I don't have to worry about it since there are no elevators here.

Expand full comment

Bizarro Cliven Bundy?

Expand full comment

Hadrian?

Expand full comment

Good neighbors ?

Expand full comment

Snowbilly Grifter disagrees.

Expand full comment