Posted on 01/10/2025 8:06:19 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
All of that opulence YET not built with extra fire precautions idiots!!!
As far as the comments in the comment section of the video can be trusted.
A house like that, if it serves any rational function at all, is a stage for very large scale entertaining. This of course has always been the case for the great country homes tradition.
Parking money in a big house as a tax and investment strategy is also sometimes a factor, but given how far left California has gone, I wonder if anyone still does that. The financial advisors probably steer people elsewhere at this point.
I’ve staffed fundraisers at private homes that large — never that style, as it’s a different part of the country, but as large. When the president is the draw and 500+ guests are writing big checks, you need a suitable stage and the usual handful of downtown venues are old hat to all concerned.
The question is, how many times a year does one have to entertain at that scale to rationalize the cost, not to mention the lifestyle accomodations involved in living surrounded by staff.
At some point, vulgar and ostentious display can take over, and that tends to be what we assume when we think of the entertainment moguls. That’s a familiar Hollywood disease. But some people are on the A-list entertaining treadmill for business reasons, and there’s something to be said for the convenience of doing it at home. Especially since staff will be doing all the work.
It’s careless to assume that the people with such houses are idiots. Some of them are, given the screwy nature of the entertainment industry, but most of the people in these houses aren’t idiots. They have reasons for buying them.
“Who wants to live in a place that looks like an airport lounge or hotel lobby?”
My exact thoughts.
They entertain in those spaces, which are built for that purpose. Where they actually do most of their living is another question. I always wonder what the private quarters look like.
There is no time in my life when I would have liked to live in a house like that. It’s well beyond over the top. I imagine the views are gorgeous, however, and I liked individual features, like the infinity bathtub glimpsed briefly. The all-stainless kitchen looked like the galley of a submarine. Claustrophobic!
You have to have a full-time staff just to maintain a place like that.
The house is relatively small part of the value, it’s the location.
When somebody buys a property in Palm Beach, generally they tear down the standing house, and build a new one.
Six million Californians voted for Donald Trump.
That’s exactly how much each person in California with a burnt down house is getting. 750 dollars! Supposedly to get them basics. I guess that’s routine for all tragedies.
The rich really are different.
Someone once explained to me: “If you have to ask how much the house costs you can’t afford to live here.”
That’s exactly how much each person in California with a burnt down house is getting. 750 dollars!
“Maybe I’ll go to the movies....By myself!”
Well...my house was made of brick (as were the neighbors), and the Niagara-like torrent of the Helene-fueled Nolichucky River OBLITERATED all signs that houses had even been there. G-O-N-E!
And Mara Lago is only worth 17 million.
Your comments about entertaining large amounts remind me of the British Monarchy, during the Middle Ages, and especially by the Tudors, going out on Progresses to visit the estates of various aristocratic landowners in their court. The aristocrats would spend untold amounts of money to fix up and prepare their homes and property for the royal visit, to the tune of what would be millions of dollars today. And sometimes the visit never happened, or the king or queen with their entourage of hundreds of people only stayed an hour or two before moving on to the next estate on their Progress. Even back then homeowners were trying to put themselves in favor of the high mucky-mucks. And back in that time, the possibilities of a large manor house being destroyed by fire was even higher.
I am very sorry to hear that. I pray that you are recovering well. That storm sure was a surprise.
Do You live in Western NC?
Such owners probably have live-in help, but are away a lot of the time. Recipe for disaster when the SHTF, like now. Who better to know what you have, and where you hide it?
Given the sheer amount of marble, terrazo, glass, block and steel in that place, the fire must have reached horrendously hot temperatures.
Where do you live? State and city is good enough
I used to live in Erwin, TN...three doors down from the infamous hospital.
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