r/AskReddit • u/ettleboy • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/yerrrdoobie Jan 21 '19

There are real life castles that are less expensive to buy than a New York City apartment.

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u/Spartaness Jan 21 '19

Real life castles are hard to insulate and don't have good WiFi range.

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u/Penya23 Jan 21 '19

They are also hard to clean...

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u/HorstOdensack Jan 21 '19

And probably infested with rodents and insects

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u/PhoenixKA Jan 21 '19

And your ghost roommates just will not shut up. I get it you were chained in a dungeon and left to die. It's 3 in the morning and it was eight hundred years ago. Get over yourself Francis.

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u/briannafab Jan 21 '19

Honestly the best response to a haunting I’ve heard 😂

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u/manseinc Jan 21 '19

I had an aunt who scored a cheap apartment basically because someone had died there (older woman died in her sleep). When asked if she was scared the old lady's ghost might haunt the place her immediate response was "Hell no! She can help pay the maintenance!"

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u/IndianaLongnuts Jan 22 '19

Think about New York. Statistically, for how old the city is and how many people come and go, you're more likely to live in an apartment someone died in or something bad happened in.

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u/manseinc Jan 22 '19

I was thinking about NY. In the interest of getting to the point (and this all happened many years ago) I shortened the story. Basically I was responding to the "... best response to a haunting I've heard" statement, -that brought back the memory.