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  1. Be rich
  2. Don't not be rich
  3. Make sure your kids marry in a way that keeps the money in the family
  4. Build a castle/house of stone.

Congratulations, you own a castle

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Not all stone houses are castles or luxury residences. My family's house (northern Italy in the Alps) is at least 600 years old (there is a painting on the outside that has been dated to around 1420) but it is a working-class home. The interior has been repurposed many times over the centuries, but it is still there and inhabited.

edit: spelling

Entire cities in the UK are famous for the kind of stone they are largely built from e.g. Aberdeen and its granite, Edinburgh and sandstone:

http://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php/Building_stones_of_Edin...

4 is the only really relevant one.

Plus just 'don't knock it down'.

Stone is far more durable than the wood and plaster they use in the US.

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