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In some mountains.
Lots of sun.
Fitted solar panels on all roofs.
Fresh source of water, waterfall or spring would be acceptable.
Big caves, with a few underground lakes.
Impregnable, only accessed by helicopter.
I'm currently looking at the Las Alpujarra region of Spain. It'll be my dream home. No pics yet.
Pics of yours?
In some mountains.
Lots of sun.
Fitted solar panels on all roofs.
Fresh source of water, waterfall or spring would be acceptable.
Big caves, with a few underground lakes.
Impregnable, only accessed by helicopter.
I'm currently looking at the Las Alpujarra region of Spain. It'll be my dream home. No pics yet.
Pics of yours?
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Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
"Honey, I'm late for work! Have you seen my rappelling gear?"
EDIT: And, this:
Garage is a hangar with access to a private strip? yes please.
Eureka Tower, Melbourne: tallest residential building in the world. Floors 82-89, aka "Summit Level," have one 600 square-meter apartment per floor. Original asking price in 2007? $7 million per apartment.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I figure one sick apartment in a city (melbourne works), one house away from it all, and one rocking main-house that's around more people. not quite the city, not quite all by myself.
yes I think I'll have it.
Bertrand Goldberg's master work. Right across the river, so getting a south facing apartment would guarantee an unobstructed view while still being in the thick of things. Plus the fact that they're mid-century modern (i.e. old) makes it pretty damn affordable when you consider it's Marina City. The corncobs are an icon, and I've always wanted to live in a building that had some significance to it.
Only one negative:
Getting a parking space is murder.
*edit*
And Feral, move in quick, because the Chicago Spire is going to be nearly twice your tower's height when it gets completed.
Andrew Carnegie's castle?
Aren't all of these buildings going to get owned by the Burj Dubai? To the point where the record might actually stick for a decade or more?
*City. I'm a city boy.
*As much assorted shrubbery as the city can cram into every nook and cranny as possible.
*Temperate climate, but if I have to pick between hot and cold, I'll take hot.
*Green up the house as much as possible. Solar panels, rainwater storage, I've read about strategically placing plants around the house to minimize the reliance on outside energy, go nuts.
*If it's an apartment, just barely high enough to clearly see past the row of buildings across the street. Fairly low to the ground, but not exactly street-level.
*I'd like it at least a LITTLE hilly. You don't need to stick Denali in my backyard, but flat horizons drive even a local nuts after a while. (Technically, Watertown has these things called 'drumlins', but that's code for 'dinky hills that create the false impression that you don't live on an organic pancake'.)
*There's some social life that doesn't revolve around dive bars and church.
*Locals that aren't every joke Jeff Foxworthy ever made.
*One of the longest-selling books in town should not be Kevin Trudeau's Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About.
Got anything for me?
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
I am SO longing for this and just treading water for the next few months.
Hava look at Slater Hogg and Howison's website, that's the kind of thing they deal in. For Example:
"Slater Hogg & Howison are favoured with the sale of "Edendarroch", a most impressive B- listed Victorian villa designed by the renowned architect Hippolyte Blanc in 1882 for Mr Cowan, a well known banker in Ayr whose family owned the property until circa 1949."
A snip at offers over $1.2M US.
That's pretty cheap for a nine bedroom in Scotland. If it was actually somewhere people would want to live (ie, not Ayr, oh God no not Ayr) then it'd probably be two or three times that price.
I should probably have mentioned that it's listed as "In need of some restoration".
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Naaah, Germany isn't particularly efficient.
Trains are usually very late, no co-ordination between city ordinances (eg. one week a section of road will be dug up for resurfacing, then 2 weeks after they finished the road is dug up again to lay new cabling/pipes etc etc). The previous generations are a bunch of curtain twitchers who love nothing so much as catching someone breaking some incredibly minor and esoteric rule so they can report you to the police.
Having said that, it is clean, the beer is cheap, the younger generation actually seem to have developed a sense of humour, and the general transport infrastructure is pretty good.
Plus, you know, FKK
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That would be about the size of it, yes.
:P
Actually it's not so much that I love that particular building. It's that my "dream home" would be a skyrise apartment in the center of a big city.
Fuck this semi-rural mansion bullshit. Put me right in the center of the action.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
The Burj is not strictly residential like Feral's tower and the Spire. Plus there's a new proposal somewhere in the pipe that will theoretically reach the mile marker. The Burj is going to hold the record for a good while though, if only because of how long it takes to build shit that fucking tall.
Plus the record lasted a good 3 decades between Sears and Taipei 101.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
So I'll take that.
I COULD pick a castle or something, but really, if I'm only going to use half the rooms because the others don't serve any useful purpose, fuck the castle. Just give me the half of the rooms I WILL be using and use the leftover space for backyard or other buildings or something.
So, uh... Who wants to spot me ~10mill?
Burj Dubai is insane.
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
Yeah, some friends of ours are surveyors and they've just landed jobs in Dubai. Basically they're going to work there for two or three years and then will have enough money to pretty much buy a house outright when they return to Scotland. I think essentially, Westerners are milking Dubai for all it's worth while the worth is still there. I'm not sure anybody but the locals have any intention of staying there for the long term, but while they are there they intend to live in excruciating luxury.
Excruciating for those of us not taking advantage of it, that is.
Maybe Dubai will have sufficient infrastructure by the time the oil runs out that they can convert into a hi-tech industry hub or something. Silicon Valley 2: Silicon Boogaloo.