A BILLION dollar home?!?

MattSullivan · Post by **MattSullivan** » Fri May 02, 2008 2:42 pm

Wow. I'll be the first to defend capitalism, but WOW. This...is just pushin it.

http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/30/home-i ... tner=yahoo

Terastas · Post by **Terastas** » Fri May 02, 2008 4:49 pm

Yes, when every intended resident could theoretically have more than one elevator, that's too much. Unless one of his kids likes to build Apollo rockets in his free time, there's no justification for using so much money, land, manpower and resources on private property.

Really, it's just the owner trying to shout out to the world: "Hey! Look how much richer I am than you!"

Unless it's one million for the actual living space and a nine hundred and ninety-nine million dollar security system to protect you from Dr. Evil and all the other supervillains trying to stop you from discovering the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything, it's excessive.

Howlitzer · Post by **Howlitzer** » Fri May 02, 2008 9:44 pm

not gonna lie...that is friggin ridonkulous.

Seriously. If I had that much money, I'd blow it all on something completely uneccessary, but NOWHERE near as blatantly extravagant as that...lol. Like a spaceship.

Or I'd buy the moon.

RedEye · Post by **RedEye** » Fri May 02, 2008 10:08 pm

Nice bungalow. Just shows you how property values are overdone.

If one of the kids is bad, do you realize there are 108 corners they can be told to stand in? Each member of the family can have 5 floors to themselves; leaving two floors for the "little people" to occupy.

With a place that big, I'll wager the in-laws will have plenty of space.

Let's face it, when it comes to Gross-ness; these people are literally the Royalty. The King and Queen of bad taste: wow.

For that much money, they could have bought a Country...although, maybe they already did.

JoshuaMadoc · Post by **JoshuaMadoc** » Fri May 02, 2008 11:00 pm

Well, hello there, Resident Evil 6...

Terastas · Post by **Terastas** » Sat May 03, 2008 12:51 am

RedEye wrote:Each member of the family can have 5 floors to themselves

Eat your vegetables or go to your floor Junior!

kitetsu wrote:Well, hello there, Resident Evil 6...

Honestly, I don't even know if that's funny or not. This really is the kind of wealth that inspires the creation of horror movies and comic book supervillains.

Remember how Xanatos from Gargoyles had Castle Wyvern as his high rise bungalow? Even that seems to pale in comparison to what that guy is doing. Truth proves stranger than fiction once again.

Confidential · Post by **Confidential** » Sat May 03, 2008 6:49 pm

Ohoho...

I thought it suppose to be like a caucasian or Middle Eastern guy to own something like this, but it turns out to be an Indian guy.

Now why would you need a house that expensive?

MoonKit · Post by **MoonKit** » Sat May 03, 2008 8:05 pm

What in the world is he going to do with all that room?

I hate people that buy huge houses then only have two kids while people with four or five kids are cramming them into a three bedroom.

Wont they get lost? It wouldnt feel like home to me being that big.

Xiroteus · Post by **Xiroteus** » Sat May 03, 2008 9:18 pm

Can almost stay on a different floor for each day of the month, appears such a home was build just because they could.

Terastas · Post by **Terastas** » Sun May 04, 2008 2:21 am

Confidential wrote:Ohoho...

I thought it suppose to be like a caucasian or Middle Eastern guy to own something like this, but it turns out to be an Indian guy.

Now why would you need a house that expensive?

*nods* Doesn't it figure that the guy who would come to epitomize excessive lifestyles comes from the country that is practically synonymous with poverty and starvation? I hope the rest of India is as pissed off about this as we are.

Blue-eyes in the dark · Sun May 04, 2008 10:10 am

Thats one crazy use of money.

vrikasatma · Post by **vrikasatma** » Mon May 05, 2008 2:23 am

In India, yet. Where people starve to death in cardboard shacks, just on the other side of the river.
A billion dollars would feed everyone in that country.
The only good thing about this story is that it shows that rampant, jaded consumerism isn't limited to America. The sadder story is that India has been doing the "rich/poor division" thing longer than pretty much every other country.

Scott Gardener · Post by **Scott Gardener** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:40 pm

Hey, at least the rooftop garden and hydroponics help give the illusion of being friendly to the environment, kind of in a Lexus LS-600h kind of way. Except that the LS hybrid actually seems by comparison pretty affordable at $104,000 base price, or $112,000 with options.