The New Tiny Nation Of Liberland Is Looking For A Population...

If you're fed up with the country you're living in and feel the need to live in a new, tiny, seven square kilometer, liberty loving country situated on the banks of the Danube between Serbia and Croatia, then get in quick and apply for citizenship of Liberland.
It's the new kid on the block. A new sovereign state situated in the Balkans on an unclaimed piece of no-man's land and it's just declared itself to be a new country.
And it's looking for a population.
Their new flag isn't anything to rave about but the country's motto is Live And Let Live so we'll let the piece of bad design fly without any criticism. The objective of the new state is to build a country where people can prosper without being oppressed by government and it's strict regulations.
Perhaps Mr Vit Jedlicka, the self appointed President of Liberland and politician from the Czech Republic should have got a slightly bigger piece of land. Twenty thousand liberty hungry wanna-be citizens have already applied but the country can only accommodate five thousand.
The only answer may be to grab a piece of land somewhere and create your own country...

Life Will Go On Long After Money Says Houseboat Dweller Paul Jepson...

And life will hopefully go on too for Boulder Bank boat builder and resident Paul Jepson whose houseboat the Nelson City Council is going to confiscate and probably destroy because it doesn't comply with the city's bylaws.
It's a structure built without the necessary consents and regulations, without the little boxes being ticked and it's being used as a dwelling and that is just too too much
for Nelson's unimaginative city fathers.
And too too much too for the ratepayers who are consumed with jealousy and resentment every time they see Paul living outside their narrowly defined and rigid square.
Of course if the structure was regarded by the courts as a boat, there wouldn't be a problem but doing that is too easy a fix.
Paul built his houseboat that's survived many a storm on the smell of an oily rag, from old drums, wooden pallets and recycled drums. It's got all the comforts of home, a rain catching system, a potbelly stove and a bed.
What more does a man want. All this man wants is to live cheaply, quietly aboard his own mortgage free dwelling, minding his own business and living in peace.
It's a shame that the world can't let him...