My suggestion is to sell them to Ben Shapiro

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Why would anyone consider anchoring the sand with vegetation? That would just ruin the view. Now burn more money, lackey!

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Ready for dune 2

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the only proper response to this story

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Put my mansion on stilts? What do you think I am? Bl… Poor!?

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So the natural dunes washed away and the answer was to replace sand with…sand.

Reminds me of the castle built in the swamp bit.

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Here’s another good one: The city of Long Beach, California spends close to that much every year to do the same thing to protect mansions built on a sand bar (the Long Beach Peninsula) that are about 50 feet from the water line on a good day. They just keep constantly moving sand from one end of the beach to the other end a couple miles away. That’s city money. The article below has some details, but only refers to the city saving $100k to $300k a year by bringing the work in house. The figure I’ve heard is more like $500k a year. I imagine it’s actually higher than that, even. They have dedicated big earth movers, a built facility to store and maintain them, employees dedicated to it, etc. Do the math. This is probably happening all over the country and all over the world.

https://www.presstelegram.com/2022/12/19/long-beach-moves-its-own-beach-sand-to-protect-peninsula/

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Let me guess - the beachfront property owners have offshored their wealth and pay less tax than the neighbourhoods without such exorbitant demands?

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Yeah well someday I might get rich, and then I’ll want everyone else to pay for me!

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The upside is that this creates jobs. Yay economy!

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