I picked "visit" very specifically for that reason - popping in and out of time would be quite different from picking an actual place to live, I think!

Hmmm, I can't help feeling one would have to linger for quite a while to get that information! (and that's not a time period I would want to live in!) Might need to get in with the right people which would take time, effort and possible risk of head-chopping off ... I mean, you could certainly pick up the gossip but we kind of know that the gossip was heavily weighted to "Richard did it/had it done." so it's not really conclusive ... I think we might need a time machine and an invisibility ray for that one! :)