I wonder if they designed a small tourist-milking corridor like Prague and Memphis.

They should build a copy of the Acropolis like Memphis.

Never mind. That's Nashville.

My graduate school roommate was some kind of State Department guy in Ghana in the 80s. He was very junior, but he said he had a cook and/or maid. Something like that.

That's my non-Wales roommate.

I guess Nebraska ignored the marine mammal act?

This was in Ohio.

I went to Sea World as a kid. Ohio definitely ignored the Marine Mammal Act.

What I'm saying is, I had sex with Shamu.

3: Nashville, Athens of the South! (To which I always wonder, shouldn't Athens GA be the Athens of the South?)

Lots of reasons to go to Cleveland.

10: They both had slaves.

11 to10, ovbsly.

A lot of this is just general oceanfront property issues. Anything along an ocean that's not too far from an airport is going to be gobbled up as vacation properties for reach people from far away, and then sit vacant much of the year. Another bunch of it is that Ghana's currency is in a huge crisis. If it weren't for the currency crisis this would be more of a clear benefit for Ghana, though locals would still have to move away from the beach, but the currency crisis makes it a problem when you mix people paid in dollars with people paid in cedi.

Ghana presumably is not taxing enough to redistribute the gains, so they're felt unevenly.

(Land value tax!)

Does taxing a mobile, wealthy elite with strong connections outside of the county ever work?

I mean, to the extent they hold property and buy things. I agree you can't soak them, they'd pick up stakes.

I think that you'd have trouble selling more property if the tax got too high.

You can make any tax too high.

You can make the rent too damn high too. In fact, it's too damn high right now!

They both had slaves.

As did Ghana. In fact it still does.

14 Or mountains. It used to be that only the super super rich could afford to be away from their big city office more than a week at a time, so while mountains and beaches could fill hotels, in season, the mass of MC/UMC people weren't really looking at relocation. Now people with a position that can be remote and incomes in the mid-low six figure range are in the actual housing market everywhere. Even if you can't or don't want to relocate and go full remote, you can AirBNB your way to profit in the downtimes.

I don't like strangers touching my stuff.

I guess that goes in the Beetlejuice thread too.

Time was the mid-low-six-figures (or equivalent) just went out to a dude ranch for group living for four weeks.

My dad learned how to ride a horse for entirely utilitarian reasons. He was probably the last generation in America for that to be common, though I did have a classmate who tended cattle on horseback.

None of which has to do with Ghana.

This does put a different perspective on the Tiktok I shared a month or so back with a white American guy touting the far higher home build quality in west Africa, and the ability to build on as much of the lot as one chooses.

Our tropical apartment complex overlooking the Gulf of Paria was always 2/3 empty.

You could look at it as 1/3 full.

It meant the pool wasn't crowded. That was nice.

Was J. Otto Pool Pohl there?

Oh yeah. He was always ready to talk about Ghana.