I prefer Monopoly – where the rents are low, there’s always free parking, I can win second prize in a beauty contest and collect $200 for a bank error in my favor. I’ve seen the game of life, and I’ve seen the game of Monopoly. Players collect rent from their opponents, aiming to drive them into bankruptcy. In the game, players roll two dice to move around the game board, buying and trading properties and developing them with houses and hotels. (You’d think in the current anti-crime hysteria they would ditch the Get Out of Jail Free card.) Monopoly is a multi-player economics-themed board game. Monopoly rents have remained frozen at 1935 levels, and there are no plans for a rent hike, according to a publicist for the Parker Brothers game company.Ī 60th anniversary Monopoly edition is due out in April and everything will be the same, except for an anniversary logo and bigger playing pieces. In one area – rent – there is no similarity at all between Monopoly and Orlando. It did, however, offer this amazing sight: local headquarters of United Parcel Service, a place I was sure existed only as myth, like all UPS substations. ![]() My last stop was Atlantic Avenue, a ritzy zip in Monopoly, but here a drab strip of pavement lined with warehouses and barbed wire south of the Bee Line Expressway. James Place – violet and lower middle class on the board but, in reality, graceful houses on shaded lots in the upscale suburbs of Altamonte Springs off Interstate 4. Baltic Street runs through a middling neighborhood north of State Road 50 in Union Park. Mediterranean Road is in a neat, manufactured-home community south of Pershing Avenue in the Conway area. The actual Mediterranean and Baltic – Monopoly’s skid row – don’t live down to the label. Heres how all the properties in the game rank, in terms of profitability. ![]() In reality, Park Place is a drowsy cul-de-sac of modest homes just north of Kennedy Boulevard in Eatonville. By Maciej Grzymkowski Updated Theres more strategy in Monopoly than meets the eye. On the board, Park Place is second only to Boardwalk as an exclusive address. Brick-paved and lined with mature trees and older homes, this Illinois is a fair match for the game board, where red Illinois Avenue is found midway around the board, a solid middle-class neighborhood.Īlso reasonably simpatico were Monopoly’s pricey Pacific Avenue and the real Pacific Heights in the faux Frisco Bay development off Old Winter Garden Road.īut life often doesn’t imitate Monopoly art. The smarter choice was Illinois Street off Mills Avenue, three blocks north of Colonial Drive.
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