Setting: An AU version of London, circa approx. 1880
Research done: Exhaustive Google and Wikipedia cross-searches for "victorian london industries, london factory locations, great london fire, christopher wren's plans for london, clerkenwell, whitehall, whitehall fire, christopher wren whitehall, historical london boroughs, royal inheritance, age ( Read more... )

I'm probably being a bit obsessive here (I'm writing up backstory for a roleplaying character), so... just off the top of your head ( Read more... )

I'm looking for a part of Tokyo where one of my characters can have grown up. His family is not well-off and they're occasionally struggling; I need him to have lived in an area that's generally on the poor side, both predominantly blue collar and not particularly 'nice'. (Not trying to find the criminal hotspot of Tokyo, just something that's not ( Read more... )

Okay, here's my question. I have a man who teaches at University of Texas at San Antonio, 1604 Campus. The year is 1983. He's a disabled Vietnam Vet, and has used his VA loan to buy a house ( Read more... )

When: current day

Where: AU Earth ( the reasons for the "alternate" are not important in this context)

Search terms: The New York TImes real estate listings

Scenario:

The person is a Wall Street uber-wunderkind, having amassed by age 30 - and means both fair and
foul-but-unprovable - a personal portfolio of over $100 million that controls an even larger ( Read more... )

Years are 1915-1923, location is probably near New York. No idea how to search this, though--it's more of a social feel thing.

Sorry about all the posts lately, Phillipa is *insisting* on being figured out.

( Cut for being long and rambly and such. )

Setting: Strasbourg (France) and Kehl (West Germany), 1950's to the present.

Searched: Copious use of Google Earth and Google Maps; Perry-Castaneda map library via UT Austin; Lonely Planet Guidebook section for Strasbourg and Alsace; Lonely Planet board searched "Strasbourg"; googled "maps", "Strasbourg", "bad/rough/dangerous areas"; Wikitravel. ( Read more... )

My MC owns a loft in NYC. Along the way, he meets, dates and marries his neighbor who owns the neighboring loft. They want to combine the two units into one larger unit. This would involve essentially tearing down the wall between, and in the process doing some other remodeling/rehab on the large unit. Dividing the space into a number  of rooms, ( Read more... )

I have a situation in which an older woman is renting out a room in a large US city, probably Chicago, but I'm not absolutely certain about that yet. Present-day ( Read more... )

I've searched through Google with several search strings, with variations on the terms. Rentals, renting, house, Los Angeles - and I do find results. However, when I type in '1967' or 'year 1967', it talks about houses built in '67 and today's rental fees, or as is the case with the latter term, it gives me no results ( Read more... )