mr peters shows you a new phenomenon here in the empire you may encounter one way or another;

In the Before – the years prior to what has been styled the “pandemic” (which it was, in the sense that metastatic hypochondria spread like cooties at a ’70s key party) when a house sold it was usually occupied shortly thereafter by the people who bought it.

In the After – our now – when houses sell they often remain empty – sometimes for years. Which makes one wonder about who bought them.

And why.

There are two such houses on my country road, which is not far from the middle of nowhere, in rural SW Virginia. One of these was owned by a friend of mine who had to sell because he got divorced and lost his house. That was more than a year ago now – and the house remains unoccupied. Another house up the road also sold about six months ago – and has yet to be occupied.........more.........