Posted on 05/06/2022 9:07:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Elon Musk's unassuming $50,000 Texas home can be revealed for the first time by DailyMail.com – complete with a rocket-shaped kids' playhouse, Tesla solar panels and CCTV cameras hidden in palm trees.
The world's richest man and new Twitter owner has sold seven Californian mansions in the past two years after vowing to offload his property portfolio and most of his possessions.
He's also denied claims he secretly lives at a friend's $12million mansion in Austin – insisting: 'My primary home is literally a $50k house in Boca Chica/Starbase that I rent from SpaceX … it's kinda awesome though.'
Boca Chica was a tranquil retirement village before SpaceX set up shop there in 2014, buying up the majority of the properties and launching giant rockets from its beach-front test facility two miles away.
DailyMail.com visited the dusty coastal enclave outside Brownsville, Texas, last week to locate Musk's supposedly Spartan digs and figure out if the Tesla mogul – worth an estimated $219billion - actually lives there.
Neighbors told us the 50-year-old does indeed reside in Boca Chica just two miles from the Mexican border – at least some of the time – in a three-bed, ranch-style home a block away from his space firm's Starbase production facility.
County records confirm SpaceX snapped up the single-story, waterfront property in October 2019 along with the adjacent empty lot and standalone garage.
Musk also listed it as his residence when he registered to vote for the 2020 General Election.
'You know Elon Musk is coming because you see the SpaceX people picking up trash and sprucing the place up,' neighbor Jim Crawford, 76, told DailyMail.com.
'He's never alone, he always has his bodyguards with him. He normally arrives late at night, he goes straight inside and rarely comes out.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
PING. What a thought-provoking, inspiring, and non-sugar-coated tribute to this sterling human being.
At the age of 95, when Musk eventually dies in his sleep inside his self-designed 375-square-foot living pod on the red planet, this quality of eulogy is all you could ask for.
Musk is more than his many achievements. And I thank you, HKMk23, for measuring the under-appreciated moral dimensions of the man.
Those are great points.
If you thought that living next to the airport would be noisy, think of being within earshot of these spacecraft.
The article says there are still nine property owners who have not yet sold to to SpaceX.
Interesting thought. I guess the difference between “annoying” and “cool” is the frequency of the event.
I suspect that house is just a place to crash for a few hours sleep then he's off to work again before the sun comes up.
There was an elderly lady who worked in the accounting depart at the plant I worked for.
She only needed about three hours sleep then she was up around 3:00 a.m. and doing seamstress stuff for other employees.
Another Howard Hughes in the making?
Where do all those kids from his first marriage live, and his ex-wife (their mother)? Are they near him in Texas?
“A down-to-earth” Howard Hughes. Not nearly the eccentric.
Actually, read somewhere he owned no property, home. He would flop at a friend’s home, stay a short time and
move on. It read as though he had many friends and felt comfortable enough sleeping in a spare bed, on a
sofa when the need arose.
That’s a trailer by another name. 😁
My point was that he didn’t stay at that house all the time.
“That’s awfully dumb.”
I imagine his security is fairly good.
So...I can say I own a house in the same price range as the world’s richest person? Cool.
Thanks poconopundit.
Really. Oh boy!
Thanks for making those great points
And he is doing more to help the Ukranians, with satellites than countries that should be helping them against Russia
yes there are, one of them video documents the goings on around spacex.
You're right on every point - but I especially liked this part. Thanks for sharing.
Not exactly Del Boca Vista.
Yes, that’s true.
In fact, Russia engaged in Electronic Warfare and disrupted StarLink, but Elon’s team uploaded a software revision that completely naturalized the threat; probably by removing a weakness Russia was exploiting, but that last bit is just a guess.
So, yeah, Elon has done more to shut down Russian hostility than the entire State Department.
“A down-to-earth” Howard Hughes.
Hey, V.K. It’s a good analogy, at least on the business side - and building aircraft.
Of course, Hughes was also almost a test pilot. Talk about having “skin-in-the-game”. One time he crashed and miraculously survived.
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