It’s unfortunate that the various election news diverts attention from news stories that can actually help you in everyday life. For example, here is @WSJ piece titled: “Horse Lovers Pony Up for Equestrian-Friendly Communities.”
I hope that these top-1% real estate porn stories subsidize some of the Journal‘s excellent journalism. I am half-convinced the Journal‘s Mansion section, and its New York Times‘ equivalents are agitprop operations staffed by undercover operatives from the Roosevelt Institute or Jacobin, trying to raise support for the estate tax.
There is one redeeming feature. Alexia Fodere took outstanding photographs.
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I was very disappointed that they missed the opportunity to combine this article with the one on vineyard staff from mid-October: http://www.wsj.com/articles/you-bought-a-vineyard…
What am to do if my estate has horses and wine?