Property in the Monopoly

I feel we have to own where we live. Not like Europeans at all, not like my parents. Property itself goes back to a Latin word. As in amor proper, belonging to me. My own. So then we have landlord, obviously Lord of a land looking back to feudal times. We have rent. And what you used to do, if you wanted to rent a flat in London, you would get the first edition of the evening standard about 10 o'clock in the morning. It was this before email and there were no websites or anything. There was just the newspaper and you would go to properties to rent and it was done by price. That's almost a practical event

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