Building Your Dream House: How large would it be?

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PieIsAwesome

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Fucking huge. I don't care if I don't need the space, I'll find something to do with it. Throw a few labs and shops in there.
 

iGas

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$28m for a 9k house? Where?

This kind of stuff only happens in 4 places that I can think of, Palm Beach, Beverly Hills/Bel Air, Greenwich, or the Hamptons.
Victoria BC the city with the highest millionaires per capita (and I'm happen to be a serf instead of the these loaded people).
 

JMapleton

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Victoria BC the city with the highest millionaires per capita (and I'm happen to be a serf instead of the these loaded people).

I either call shens or you're dealing with that loonie money. You don't see houses that expensive in Canada. There isn't much money in Canada.
 

IronWing

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I either call shens or you're dealing with that loonie money. You don't see houses that expensive in Canada. There isn't much money in Canada.
I'm going to go with Zimbabwe for the highest number of millionaires per capita. I bet even fetuses are millionaires in Zimbabwe.
 

JMapleton

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I'm going to go with Zimbabwe for the highest number of millionaires per capita. I bet even fetuses are millionaires in Zimbabwe.

I actually bought 5 $200m dollar bills from Zimbabwe on eBay for like $2 a few months ago and brought it to work as a joke. I often bet people "a billion dollars in cash" and I use to show them I'm good for the money.
 

sdifox

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I actually bought 5 $200m dollar bills from Zimbabwe on eBay for like $2 a few months ago and brought it to work as a joke. I often bet people "a billion dollars in cash" and I use to show them I'm good for the money.

I lived through 3 (maybe 4) 000 slashing exercise. IE slash 3 zeroes from your currency because there is only so much room on the note to print the number.

Argentina in the 80s
 

iGas

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I either call shens or you're dealing with that loonie money. You don't see houses that expensive in Canada. There isn't much money in Canada.
Vancouver is a sister city to Victoria. There are exclusive area in every town and Victoria have some pretty nice area. At one point Sylvester Stallone bought a house here for $7m and it was considered an average waterfront house and it wasn't any where near the exclusive areas.

See: Crack Shack or Mansion and see for yourself what bottom of the rung costs.

Sorry to say, but not everything in America is the best, and most of these exclusive homes are own by Americans that have tastes ;)

PS. What shitty hole of a city that you live in?
 

Drako

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my ideal house is not large, just exceptionally well located.

This.

I'm not interested in large house, something cozy is great for me and my wife. Location, and land are important to me. I spend a lot of time outside, and would love to have 5-plus acres of land of my own.
 

Cerb

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I mean really, do you know how small 1600 square feet is? A "awesome kitchen" alone would probably be 1,600 square feet.
Unless I'm mistaken, LW=A, so around 40'x40'. My dream kitchen would fit within about 12'x16', and would start getting too big around 14'x18'. Why would I even want, as one person, serving usually 1-2 people, and at most around 10, a kitchen at 1600sqft? Is meal preparation an endurance sport, these days? A kitchen for a single cook can quickly become too big.

If I have a huge budget, I'm going to have a brick house, with hardwood floors, an internal intake network for the AC (no stale rooms because the doors are shut), easy access to conduit for upgrading various wiring over time through the house, solar panels on the roof, etc., etc..

If I were to spend on space, it would be for acreage around the house, and possibly a non-attached garage.
 

Sentrosi2121

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5000sq/ft would be sufficient for my needs. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, a large kitchen, formal dining room and a great room. That's pretty much all I need. Basement would be the media man cave area. 2 car heated attached garage. Garage heated through a couple of solar panels driving the heater for the garage. Geothermal for the house. And large tracts of land.
 

JimmiG

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Don't think I even want a house.. too much hassle and they tend to be located in suburbs far from all the entertainment and social life of a city. I want walking distance to everything.

Maybe a penthouse apartment in a good location, 3-4 thousands sq ft. A larger place with lots of land would require all kinds of servants... and I don't want them because I want privacy in my own home.
 

DrPizza

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I mean really, do you know how small 1600 square feet is? A "awesome kitchen" alone would probably be 1,600 square feet.

That statement alone is enough to conclude you don't have a clue what you're talking about in this thread.
Oh, and you described another house as having 8 bedrooms, and 18 bathrooms? Yeah, right. I'd like to see that.
 

iGas

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That statement alone is enough to conclude you don't have a clue what you're talking about in this thread.
Oh, and you described another house as having 8 bedrooms, and 18 bathrooms? Yeah, right. I'd like to see that.
Insanely large houses seems to be decadence structural for bragging rights and are not as efficient residents that people actually live in.

The 16,000 sqf house that I worked on have 2 bedrooms, 6 decadence bathrooms.
 

TridenT

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That statement alone is enough to conclude you don't have a clue what you're talking about in this thread.
Oh, and you described another house as having 8 bedrooms, and 18 bathrooms? Yeah, right. I'd like to see that.

There are houses that are like that.

Many nice houses come with many extra bathrooms. 3 bedroom houses with 8 bathrooms, etc.
 

TridenT

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Another thing I'd love is for my house to have secret passages and shit. All kinds of secret things that you'd never be able to find unless I told ya. ;)
 

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Size does nothing for me in this sense.

It would be more about location(s), craftsmanship, quality of materials used, sustainability, etc.

Two examples of my style...

1. The McKinley House by architect David Hertz (as featured in "Californication"). Also featured in this YouTube video.

2. Jennifer Aniston's home as featured in the March 2010 issue of Architectural Digest. I especially love the integrated water elements (Koi Pond), natural dark wood accents, and tique furniture.
 

JMapleton

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Another thing I'd love is for my house to have secret passages and shit. All kinds of secret things that you'd never be able to find unless I told ya. ;)

Please quit talking like a druggie in my thread. Ending sentences with "and shit" is a sign of a GED education. You're annoying enough, don't make it worse.