Well at least people like you prove there is an exception to every rule. Your mainland rental sims are amazing and beautiful. 
Well I really appreciate your saying so, Raymond. You and Cristalle and others have shown that the mainland can be a thing of beauty.
It is sad that the only way to realize the "SL dream" free of ad farmer extortion is to buy huge amounts of land around you. It's pretty hopeless for the little guy to own anything on the mainland.