I noted on the other thread last night... Seeing all the pictures leaves me a bit underwhelmed after that headline. Sure, it’s a nice place and maybe the Roman party barge is a bit much. But in all it’s not really all that over the top. Lots of more ordinary tinpot despots have done better. There’s people in my own town with more gaudy houses than that.
Heck, my trailer park has a scene similar to that pagoda over the pond.
Have to agree, I'll bet we have at least a hundred houses around our little resort area in North Idaho that would make that place below-average.
Yep. I was recall a biogrophy of some African "President" back in the 90s, maybe the Congo, who had over 50 enormous mansions dotted throughout the countryside, each of them fully staffed 24/7 in case he should drop by. Maintaining these were a huge burdon for the povery-stricken nation. Pretty much par for the course for African dictators.