Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170424154014/@comment-4010415-20170512183553

GreyStark wrote: Uh, land is relatively cheap. My family had a few hundred acres when they were poor as shit in the 50s 1. In the 50s.

2. On Earth, a planet where we're not constricted to certain areas of land based on how easily the settlement can be defended from man-eating monsters.

My point was specifically that Remnant is a world where every inch of land counts, and Vale was desperate enough for expansion that they attempted to settle land that doesn't have the natural barriers necessary for adequate defense against Grimm.

This has nothing to do with how much an acre of land costs nor how big an acre is (Phantom, I mentioned in my post that an acre is about the size of a football field) and everything to do with how the people of Remnant are not free to settle every centimeter of land on their planet due to the Grimm.

The chieftan of Kuo Kuana only has what looks like 2-3 acres set aside for himself, but Dragon's character's parents aren't the leader of a settlement/nation, they're R&D specialists in a kingdom full of R&D specialists. One of my questions was: Why do they need 15 acres? To rephrase my question: What are they using those 15 acres for? If it's just for a house, then they don't necessarily need all of that, especially since we don't even know if the Schnee family owns more land than necessary for their mansion.