The affluence is everywhere — construction cranes dot urban landscapes, sleek new restaurants open constantly and apartments with bird's-eye views go for millions of dollars.
A two-bedroom wooden house with no water access just sold for $83,000 and a six-bedroom Victorian with harbor views went for $147,000.
The 64 rooms at the Tugboat Inn in Boothbay Harbor (80 Commercial Street; 800-248-2628; withtugboatinn.com), most witharboror views, go for $140 to $225 in summer.
The upper floor views go for miles, and if you book a Skyline View Corner Room you'll be treated to a full wall of floor to ceiling windows that curve with the building--the overall effect feels something like sleeping in the glass-enclosed prow of a ship.
A few miles south, a penthouse apartment in the heart of Greenwich Village with a wraparound balcony and glorious views goes for $1,400.
He then largely slipped out of public view, going for long walks in the Sussex hills, baking bread at home and occasionally visiting the Scottish island of Mull, where his daughter, Sarah, lived.
Anyone can buy property here -- a 500-square-foot, one bedroom apartment with a sliver of an ocean view goes for about $800,000.
CAVE CAY in the Bahamas, complete with beach huts, airstrips and breathtaking views, is going for $110m.
But when the birds are penguins and the views go on for thousands of miles, you begin to see why the island of Tristan da Cunha is failing to attract a new vicar.
A north-facing unit on the same floor with no park view is going for $1.265 million and is just 10 square feet smaller.
