Then there’s the bit about the strangely bland yet green views… until you hit google maps and street view. That thar is the land side of a heap ol’ big levee, a sea wall, if you will, without the sea. So you’ve got the Mississippi to your south and the not-sea but oh-so-affected-by storm surge Pontchartrain to the north… just over the levee. I’ve heard New Orleans is humid, but there’s humid and then there’s humid. (O_o)

At first, I feared that if sellers were just going to throw this sort of amenity in for free, then my dream of care-taking some quietly palatial digs was at an end – but then I realized they’d still need someone to order the phantasms around. I can do that.