I'm concerned, it seems that billionaires homes are not large enough.

AX10

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Sat Mar-10-07 11:02 PM
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I'm concerned, it seems that billionaires homes are not large enough.

:sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm:

http://www.forbes.com/home/lifestyle/2007/03/06/estate-rich-home-forbeslife_07billionaires_cz_mw_0308homes.html

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AlCzervik

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Sat Mar-10-07 11:06 PM
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1. Gate's house looks like the Disney Wilderness Lodge

Edited on Sat Mar-10-07 11:07 PM by chimpsrsmarter

i stayed ther a long time ago but thats what it looks like.
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/resorts/resortLanding?id=WildernessLodgeResortLandingPage

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AX10

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Sat Mar-10-07 11:10 PM
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2. rofl

:rofl:

One could be based upon the other.

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AlCzervik

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Sat Mar-10-07 11:11 PM
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3. right, you see it too?

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AX10

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Sat Mar-10-07 11:14 PM
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6. Yes.

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Deja Q

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Sat Mar-10-07 11:12 PM
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4. The dude must have a schlong the size of a thumbtack...

Or he's got some issues that need to be compensated by owning a ridiculously large house. Also note, I look at it in curious awe. Not jealousy. Forgive me, but I don't understand the logic or necessity in living in such a large domicile.

Clicking on the 'next' button reveals "Page not found", which is somewhat amusing too.

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AX10

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Sat Mar-10-07 11:13 PM
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5. Warren Buffet has the smallest house on the list.

It's the size of an upper-middle class person's home.

Good for him.

I too never understood the need for 20,000+ square feet.

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originalpckelly

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Sat Mar-10-07 11:14 PM
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7. Those are the ugliest homes I've ever seen. At least the old rich folks...

Edited on Sat Mar-10-07 11:15 PM by originalpckelly

have homes that are actually beautiful. None of these new rich folks have any taste.

Warren's house is a modest place, and I must say he's one of the few in the investor class that I do admire, but even that house is ugly as sin.

Sad that these folks don't put this money to use building beautiful places, just these fugly houses.

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AX10

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Sat Mar-10-07 11:15 PM
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8. agreed.

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originalpckelly

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Sat Mar-10-07 11:17 PM
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9. I mean at least the old houses of the rich could be turned into beautiful...

Edited on Sat Mar-10-07 11:17 PM by originalpckelly

apartments, museums, and hotels. These structures just have nothing in mind but their owners.

They aren't accomplishments of architecture, they're gaudy shit boxes.

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Sat Mar-10-07 11:21 PM
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10. its a sick part of our culture. Galmorzing excess.

Sometimes HGTV, for example, is good and helpful programming. But sometimes its just fanatasy BS, encouraging consumerism. Its like things like this decide to only focus on the rich, and the rest of America pretends this is normal. For example, "What kind of home can $400k get you in different cities?" Its an interesting premise, but its horribly condescending. Who on earth can afford to live like that.

I know its a bit of a tangent, but that bit got me thinking about it...

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originalpckelly

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Sat Mar-10-07 11:25 PM
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13. I don't think those shows are that bad...

I much prefer to watch the ones on the travel channel, they have series about unique structures, and it is quite enjoyable. That's why I disgust profoundly the way that these people have abused architecture. These houses are just pieces of shit that will not last the test of time.

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ComerPerro

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Sat Mar-10-07 11:31 PM
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15. Yeah, I like the ones that stress the unique. But even that gets to me sometimes

Praising them for the uniqueness is one thing. But the shows should really praise the designers and the architects, instead of praising the owners like they usually do. "Their $2 million vacation home was specially built for this couple..."
Nice to know, but I'd rather know about who actually designed and built it.

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originalpckelly

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Sun Mar-11-07 08:53 AM
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18. I saw the architect last show I watched.

It did have the people who lived in it, but I guess that makes sense after all.

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jmowreader

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Sun Mar-11-07 08:33 PM
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19. A $400k home is different in different places

In Seattle, $400k will get you a fixer-upper.

In Fayettenam, if you buy correctly, $400k will get you two houses on adjoining lots and a $5000 gift card to a lumberyard to buy the materials to build a covered walkway between them.

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valerief

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Sat Mar-10-07 11:21 PM
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11. And look at how many Katrina victims couldn't even get a damned trailer. nt

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originalpckelly

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Sat Mar-10-07 11:29 PM
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14. I saw this amazingly insightful figure today of the richest billionaires in America...

their total philanthropic contributions were only $7 billion, while their combined net worths were about $630 billion. That was excluding Warren Buffet, who gave a large chunk that was about 3.5 times what all the people on the richest billionaires list gave collectively.

They don't even have a way of practically spending that doe, yet they have it.

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valerief

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Sun Mar-11-07 08:47 AM
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16. I'm sure most of them see helping poor people as we might see

feeding ants that invade our homes. Ants are to be killed, not empowered.

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Sat Mar-10-07 11:22 PM
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12. i love to browse this site

http://www.christiesgreatestates.com/

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leftchick

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Sun Mar-11-07 08:51 AM
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17. Buffet is the only modest one

Warren Buffett
Omaha, Neb.
Net Worth: $52 billion
Rank: 2

At the rate Buffett is giving away his money, it won't be long before net worth matches the value of his home. He still resides in the 6,000-square-foot gray stucco home he bought in 1958 for $31,500. In 2004, Buffett sold one of his two Laguna Beach, Calif., properties, but still has one valued at about $4 million.

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