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A VAN driver claims he has been left living in his car for two years due to landlords turning him away - for refusing to abandon his pets. Paul Growns, from Maidstone, Kent, became homeless in January 2022 and is still is still living in his vehicle - with his two dogs - two years later.   (Paul Growns, who works full-time as a van driver, became homeless in January 2022. Credit: KentOnline)     (Paul says he was advised that his only option is to look for private accommodation.Credit: KentOnline)   Father-of-two Paul, who is 45 and works full-time as a van driver, says that the cost of child maintenance, car insurance and storage has left him with little money...

The number of vacant houses in Japan has surged to a record high of nine million – more than enough for each person in New York City – as the east Asian country continues to struggle with its ever-declining population. Abandoned houses are known in Japan as “akiya” – a term that usually refers to derelict residential homes tucked away in rural areas. But more akiya are being seen in major cities, such as Tokyo and Kyoto, and that’s a problem for a government that’s already grappling with an aging population and an alarming fall in the number of children born each year. “This is a symptom of Japan’s population decline,” said...

[Unicode]   မန္တလေးအိမ်ခြံမြေဈေးကွက်  အတွင်း တစ်နိုင်တစ်ပိုင် ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံလိုသူများက ခိုင်မာမှုရှိသော အိမ်ခြံမြေဈေးကွက်ကို ဦးတည်လာကြောင်း အိမ်ခြံမြေအကျိုးဆောင် များထံမှ သိရသည်။ လက်ရှိတွင် အိမ်ခြံမြေဈေးနှုန်းများ မြင့်တတ်လာပြီး...

It’s time to think big! If you have ever dreamed of owning your own town, here’s a unique opportunity! Almost the entire town of Campo, CA, has just hit the market for $6.6 million. The listing in San Diego County includes 28 buildings that offer a mixture of residential and commercial opportunities. The 16-acre property offers a total of 95,000 square feet of interior space, which comes to $69 per square foot. Many of the residential units are said to have been updated, and modern amenities include new roofs and vinyl plank flooring. Campo is an hour east of San Diego, and the property offers “the potential for high cash flow and significant upside through strategic...

A 149-mile-long stretch of highway connecting two towns in Saudi Arabia holds the title of the world’s longest straight road.Saudi Arabia’s Highway 10 stretches 916 miles (1,474 km), connecting the town of Al Darb, in the southwest, to Al Batha, in the east. It’s quite a busy road, most traversed by trucks shipping goods from one side of the country to the other, but it is most famous for a 149-mile stretch through the Rub-al-Khali desert. This particular piece of infrastructure was originally built as a private road for King Fahd (SAU), but ever since it became part of the public road system, it claimed the Guinness Record for the world’s longest straight road,...

A two-story Soho building bought by the late John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1971 has hit the market for the first time in a half century. The brick, bluestone and terra cotta structure at 496 Broome St. was the first residence the pair purchased together in New York City, two years before they famously moved to the Upper West Side’s Dakota, where Lennon was gunned down. Now, more 50 years later, Ono — who has retained control of the property since buying it — and her son, Sean Ono Lennon, have listed it for sale with company JLL, for an asking price of $5.5 million, the New York Times first reported.     (The facade.Courtesy of JLL) “The building on...

When the town of Seaside, California ordered homeowner Etienne Constable to build a fence to conceal the boat in his driveway, he erected the fence all right. And then he hired his neighbor, artist Hanif Panni, to paint a mural on the fence—realistically depicting the boat itself. The city had threatened a $100 fine if Constable didn’t comply, but, ironically, he ended up paying for more than that for the artist’s fee alone. “It was his idea,” Hanif said in a phone interview. Etienne Constable, a Seaside, California, resident, owns a boat that he had kept parked on a dirt patch on his property. In July 2023, officials asked him to build a proper driveway and...

[Unicode]   ဆောက်လုပ်ရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန မြို့ပြနှင့်အိမ်ရာဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးဦးစီးဌာနမှ တည်ဆောက်နေသည့် လှိုင်သာယာမြို့နယ် ကျန်စစ်မင်းအိမ်ရာစီမံကိန်း အပိုင်း(၁)၊ အပိုင်း(၂)၊ ဒဂုံမြို့သစ်(ဆိပ်ကမ်း) မြို့နယ်၊ ယုဇနအိမ်ရာစီမံကိန်းအပိုင်း (၃) တို့တွင် အိမ်ရာအဆောက်အအုံ...

For buyers interested in taking their home security to the next level, this pair of historic forts floating off the coast of England might suit. The duo, dubbed No Mans Fort and Spitbank Fort, are nestled in the sea between the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth on the mainland and they’re headed under the hammer with Savills on June 18 with a guide price of £1 million (US$1.26 million) each. Though both are currently used as hotels, each has pre-existing permission to be converted into a residential property for a buyer or buyers looking for the ultimate private escape.   (No Mans Fort is a 35-minute boat ride from the mainland. Savills) Mansion Global couldn’t...

A stunning mansion has hit the market for $3,295,000 (£2,600,000) – and it’s a model train lover’s dream. The six-bedroom property boasts over 20,890 square feet, including eight bathrooms, a wood-burning fireplace, gym, sauna and walk-in wardrobe. But the real surprise is in the basement where a full model train set takes up almost the entire room. The incredible collection includes buildings, depots, stops, bridges, crossovers, mountains, towns and villages. Even the walls have been painted to match the tracks, making guests feel as though they are right in the middle of a station like Liverpool Street because who wouldn’t want to be reminded about their...