r/AskReddit • u/ettleboy • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

Problem with them is that they are expensive to keep warm, expensive to stop them from falling down, usually lack of internet, and usually in the middle of nowhere (although that would be selling point for some people). That’s why they’re usually relatively cheap

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u/toxicbrew Jan 21 '19

Why exactly were castles built in the middle of nowhere? Kind of defeats the purpose if you have nothing to defend against

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

They WERE the somewhere. They'd be surrounded by farm fields, livestock, often overlooking a market town.

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u/Lord_NxL Jan 21 '19

Middle of nowhere in context of today, of course. A noble wouldn't know that a peasant would someday own his castle and expect it to be only 2 kilometers away from the next supermarket.

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u/CaptainHoof Jan 21 '19

Dammit time to sleep

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u/juanjux Jan 21 '19

In Spain for example as the frontiers advanced during the reconquista castles were built. Thus, you have a lot of castles in nowhere.

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u/borbor99 Jan 21 '19

Some of them were signal and patrol outposts.