<story><title>You can’t buy one square foot of land in Scotland and become a Scottish lord</title><url>https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/06/15/no-you-cant-buy-one-square-foot-of-land-in-scotland-and-become-a-scottish-lord/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ad133</author><text>I was hoping there was going to be some minimum definition, and that I could call myself Lord, but alas, my ~300m^2 of land doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to qualify me either (I live there, I didn&amp;#x27;t get scammed ~3k times over for 1 sq foot).&lt;p&gt;I mean honestly if you could be a lord with 1 square foot, there would be a lot of lords in Scotland due to the ownership nature of buying a house (very little of this &amp;quot;leasehold&amp;quot; thing that&amp;#x27;s prevalent in England). My parents would be a lord and lady, so would their parents...&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve not encountered these ads though, I guess it would be pretty dumb to geo-target it to people &lt;i&gt;living&lt;/i&gt; in Scotland.&lt;p&gt;Edit, on the other hand, if you buy a house and let it out, I guess you can be a land lord, even if you still can&amp;#x27;t call yourself lord.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>synu</author><text>Or you could just call yourself lord regardless, and the monarch won’t appear and throw you in the oubliette.</text></comment>
<story><title>You can’t buy one square foot of land in Scotland and become a Scottish lord</title><url>https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/06/15/no-you-cant-buy-one-square-foot-of-land-in-scotland-and-become-a-scottish-lord/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ad133</author><text>I was hoping there was going to be some minimum definition, and that I could call myself Lord, but alas, my ~300m^2 of land doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to qualify me either (I live there, I didn&amp;#x27;t get scammed ~3k times over for 1 sq foot).&lt;p&gt;I mean honestly if you could be a lord with 1 square foot, there would be a lot of lords in Scotland due to the ownership nature of buying a house (very little of this &amp;quot;leasehold&amp;quot; thing that&amp;#x27;s prevalent in England). My parents would be a lord and lady, so would their parents...&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve not encountered these ads though, I guess it would be pretty dumb to geo-target it to people &lt;i&gt;living&lt;/i&gt; in Scotland.&lt;p&gt;Edit, on the other hand, if you buy a house and let it out, I guess you can be a land lord, even if you still can&amp;#x27;t call yourself lord.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slowmovintarget</author><text>Or the square foot grant when you buy a bottle of Laphroaig... I have a few, though I&amp;#x27;d strongly doubt they&amp;#x27;re contiguous.</text></comment>