A chef. Or a massage therapist. Or both, I’m not picky.
(I’m changing masseur to massage therapist. Apparently masseur can be taken in a shady way…obviously this is written by someone who has never had either.)
@duodec@ruouttaurmind@simplersimon The water is way the heck too cold up there to go swimming in the ocean. They train the north sea divers up there. Also maybe drag that island south a fair bit into warmer waters? And the days are seriously short in the winter.
Although if you go sea kayaking that far north you may find yourself followed by a seal. When they follow you (I was only as far north as Loch Eil when sailing or kayaking when I worked in Scotland) all you see is this little head with big round eyes about 25 or so feet behind you. If you are not paddling sometimes they will come closer and swim between kayaks. That was pretty cool.
Used to be a lot of land, now I’d still like a moderate amount (at least 3-4 acres, up to 12, part forested is great). Room for a workshop. Got a car to restore and a garage ain’t gong to cut it. Would have done large gardens/hobby farm20 years ago but as a retirement place some nice raised bed gardens will do. A creek/river running through it that has fish. Pond would be ok.
@duodec Umm. I seem to be living in your dream home. 2-car garage, 20x60 concrete outbuilding, 6.5 acres, pond, small stream with a 110-year-old stone cooling house, fenced garden, fireplace + woodstove, lots of trees (and brush, briars, poison ivy, misc. thorny stuff, ticks, raccoons, 'possums, foxes. deer, and various Things That Go Bump in the Night.) I’ve been trying to sell it to move someplace that is less work and more allergy-friendly, but now I’m stuck here until there’s a vaccine for covid-19. One man’s paradise, etc.
@duodec@JnKL@mehcuda67 I could settle for an M60, those are great too. I would need to see heads explode at long range. 7.62 rounds are probably easier to find. Thanks for the help and suggestions
A library. I do most of my reading electronically now but I love books. I’d love my own library. Wall to wall books in mahogany bookcases. There would be 2 levels with just a walkway on the second level so you can look up and see all the books. It’d have some study spaces, desks and tables, and some comfy reading chairs both proper armchairs and more cushy recliners. Warm indirect lighting would light the whole room but there would be small lamps with cooler light for direct lighting on individual spaces. A couple of windows just so I wouldn’t feel completely cut off from the passage of time.
@FoxSpectre So, leaded casement windows or French windows that lead onto the lawn? Both are good for traditional murder mysteries (to read and to commit).
Up-to-date, completely functioning utilities and heating system, clean mouse-proof basement, brand new easy-care flooring to replace the dirty old wall-to-wall carpeting, a patio where the water drains away instead of puddling near the sliding glass door…
@Kyeh “Up-to-date, completely functioning utilities and heating system” AND A/C, working with thoroughly updated electrical wiring, all solar-powered and smart-controlled. Sufficient to go off-grid (and be free to operate).
@ZeroCharisma I used to know a couple with a house that had a large carport added to the front. The front entrance was through the carport. So they enclosed the carport and added a garage door. They could get in and out using the garage door opener, but strangers/solicitors were baffled.
@tweezak We have 30 acres of mostly dense PNW forest. It’s nice, but maintaining the trails that allow us to enjoy it is a huge amount of (endless) work.
@macromeh Ours was in the mid-valley in Oregon so it was densely brushed. We had roads through the woods to get to where we cut firewood. The trails were all maintained by the deer.
A large room solely dedicated as a workroom for my drapery business. Barring that, I just need to move out of my house and back in again to thoroughly clean out!
@sive128 We have a fireplace in the main floor living room and a wood stove in the basement TV/family room. After the first couple years, we rarely use the fireplace.
@sive128 Don’t let me stop you. I enjoyed my family’s fireplaces growing up. Buy my ex-wife’s family had a fire start from theirs after everyone had gone to sleep. A hot ember spit out onto the carpet. That was before smoke detectors, but luckily the family dog woke them up. So wifey was not a fan.
I am single now and my only excuse is that I’m lazy.
Secret passageway. Or a very cool old plantation house with huge trees lining the driveway and inside has to have ballroom, library, people to clean and take care of it and no ghost.
There is a house that is my dream house (never seen inside, it’s just from the stories I’ve herd and what I’ve imagined). It used to be the subs old country club before it burned down and had a ballroom, library, huge dining area, and is also on the point of the lake. Some people bought it and fixed it up real nice.
@Star2236 You beat me to it. But the only thing I need is a secret passageway or room. I would tell everyone about it, but it would be obscured from normal entry. And a cool way to enter, is a huge plus. Like copying Universal Studios and creating a camera system that watches wand movements (IR camera with an IR reflector on a wand)
@Star2236 My college roommate lived in a house that used to be part of the underground railway and had all sorts of stuff like that. Then it was an insane asylum and all the light switches were moved to outside of the rooms. Then her family bought it. My roommate had 11 brothers and sisters so likely it was still partly insane asylum. I am sure the kids appreciated the hidden rooms and weirdly located staircases. Parents likely not so much so.
@DrWorm@macromeh No! I never want to have to rely on a stairlift. If I can’t make it up the stairs on my own, please just kill me. Or at least move me into a ranch house…
@cinoclav@DrWorm@qkerby I always kinda wanted a spiral staircase going up to a second level (like a library second level) but with the open bottom of the staircase positioned against the wall. There would be a hidden lock/unlock that would allow the staircase to swing around 180 and lock open when needed.
@DrWorm@qkerby@rockblossom When I was a kid we had a vacation house in the Poconos. While looking for one we toured an A-frame with a spiral staircase. The bedrooms were all on the second floor. I was really young but I still remember all of us standing there wondering how the hell we’d ever get any beds and furniture up there. The parents bought a rancher instead. Side note: Wish to hell we still had that house. My dad was an asshole and signed her name to the paperwork and sold it when they divorced.
I do live in a house with a bar in the basement.
It wasn’t something I’ve always wanted, but it’s definitely a big part of what sold me on the house.
I’ve lived here for 19 years now and what I really wish I had was a garage. A big one would be great, but I’d settle for one that’s just big enough to fit my car.
Not sure there’s really anything I’ve always wanted.
@DennisG2014 Garages are nice and I’ve rarely had one. No chipping ice off the windshield or brushing off snow, not bird droppings, tree pollen, or blazingly hot car… Two houses I rented and one I owned the garages had been turned into a room. Would have rather had a garage.
@DennisG2014@Kidsandliz I get that people would like more living space in their house, but it really pisses me off when I see they’ve closed off their garage to do so. We have a one car garage but there’s so much stuff in it there will never be a car in there again. I’d love to have one of those giant extended two car garages with plenty of storage or even room for a shop in the back.
@DennisG2014@macromeh Well I’d rather be viewed with suspicion than chip ice off or open a car that is 140 degrees inside covered in sap, pollen and bird crap.
@cinoclav@DennisG2014 Yes a two car garage would be good. Or in a family already with 2 cars, having a 2 car plus extra space. When my parents had to rebuild their garage because it was falling down they made it big enough to fit 2 large cars and enough room for all the yard stuff, bikes…
@DennisG2014
My boyfriends house has what they say is a 2 car garage but we can’t fit both out cars in it and their not big cars either. So now we park our extra car in there that we barely drive and fill the rest of the space with yard stuff.
I have an automatic starter on my car so it helps in the winter but I still wish I had a garage to park in.
@cinoclav@DennisG2014@Kidsandliz Our attached garage is just big enough for two cars, plus a freezer, beer keg-erator and some shelves around the perimeter. The 1700 sqft. barn is for storing all the tools, animal feed and assorted crap.
@tinamarie1974 that happened this .month!! Due to the lockdown, less money spent on going to movies, the commute to the office, etc. I was able to double up on payments and paid off almost 18 months early
I’d like my house to be in a non-light-polluted area with room for an astronomical observatory. (I have friends with this, though the domed observatory is on the property, not on the roof. Close enough.)
a basement… period. I have always lived in places where basements are not feasible either due to high water table or bedrock. I’ve always liked the idea of a basement but never had one.
@infornography Wait until your always dry in the past basement floods. My parents got us kids up in the middle of the night to create a chain to put things upstairs when ours flooded for the first time. It ended up about 4’ deep with filthy water in the end. But other than that it is nice to have somewhere to put things that you want out of the way but inside.
A dojo. i want a traditional Japanese style dojo with tatami mats, a shrine at Shomen, wall racks for weapons, and sliding shoji screen walls that can open to a lovely view in good weather.
And an arts and crafting space with room for my beloved’s metalworking/jewelry smithing, a pottery studio, a glass blowing studio, and a spinning and weaving studio (and maybe a woodworking shop).
And a gourmet kitchen. And a library with bookshelves so tall we need one of those sliding ladders to get to the top shelves.
@cinoclav lol… Yes, it’s that article (or one on same subject from a different source) that inspired my answer.
Honestly, can’t see why neighbours should mind as long as everything is consensual and legal.
I couldn’t care less what my fellow suburbanites do when their blinds are drawn. Key parties, sounding, rampant orgies, as long as they keep the sound down so I can’t hear.
Folks, always wear a gag if you can otherwise be heard by the neighbours.
I have a house with a large two car garage (in which we keep two cars), a large shed with a third car, tools, and storage, a full completely, dry basement with a wet bar and 5 wooded, isolated acres.
I wish I had either more land or less woods for a bigger garden, a larger outbuilding for a skid-steer, an excavator, and truck and trailer to haul them in, so I could go play in the dirt with grown up toys, and a more land for a runway and a hangar for my airplane, so I could play in the sky without having to drive to the airport, pay hangar fees, etc.
Woe is me…
NOT!
For I no longer have an airplane and all the costs that go with it, and I have never had a skid-steer, excavator, etc. nor the cost and problems of keeping them up. (20+ years of aircraft ownership was enough for a lifetime.)
The bar in the basement makes up for a lot of that, eh?
Always wanted to live in a house with a swimming pool-moved to FL and bought a house that came with a pool and upgraded it to the pool of my dreams. 13 years later it was becoming a cash drain-$ 75 a month for maintenance, pool motor just replaced for $ 500. Salt water system was on its last legs and gas heater was way beyond it 8 year useful life. Person who bought my house hired a pool contractor to estimate what it would cost to update all the equipment and that came to over 5k. I said if it was still working no matter how old, wasn’t going to fix it, but agreed to clean the stains on the bottom which meant the pool had to be drained and muriatic acid scrubbed-cost $ 800 plus water to refill it.
Everyone in my new neighborhood who came from out-of -state bought a house with a pool or had one built-after 13 years that was enough for me. Even if I wanted to add a pool would never be as nice as this one. Pic of my pool.
Nice big front porch with a porch swing.
@Kidsandliz No idea why this isn’t one of the choices. A screened porch with a pleasant view and a porch swing = heaven.
free space
A lazy river ride.
A large kitchen.
A chef. Or a massage therapist. Or both, I’m not picky.
(I’m changing masseur to massage therapist. Apparently masseur can be taken in a shady way…obviously this is written by someone who has never had either.)
A runway.
@eonfifty A nearby neighbor has a runway and hangar for his ultra-light. I wave as he flies overhead most weekends in the summer.
@macromeh
Awesome!
OWLS! TOWELS! JOWLS! AWESOME!
Yes, I’ve always wanted to live in a house.
…a secret underground fortress/laboratory. Or enough room for a very large dog.
@simplersimon Syndrome’s island, with accessories and features (can do without the capture/torture ring) but without Syndrome
(ETA not really a fan of tropics but the amenities outweigh the location)
@duodec @simplersimon Ya, I could get behind that idea.
@duodec @ruouttaurmind build it on an island in the Hebrides (off the coast of Scotland), and I am 100% sold.
@duodec @ruouttaurmind @simplersimon The water is way the heck too cold up there to go swimming in the ocean. They train the north sea divers up there. Also maybe drag that island south a fair bit into warmer waters? And the days are seriously short in the winter.
Although if you go sea kayaking that far north you may find yourself followed by a seal. When they follow you (I was only as far north as Loch Eil when sailing or kayaking when I worked in Scotland) all you see is this little head with big round eyes about 25 or so feet behind you. If you are not paddling sometimes they will come closer and swim between kayaks. That was pretty cool.
Used to be a lot of land, now I’d still like a moderate amount (at least 3-4 acres, up to 12, part forested is great). Room for a workshop. Got a car to restore and a garage ain’t gong to cut it. Would have done large gardens/hobby farm20 years ago but as a retirement place some nice raised bed gardens will do. A creek/river running through it that has fish. Pond would be ok.
@duodec This.
@duodec Umm. I seem to be living in your dream home. 2-car garage, 20x60 concrete outbuilding, 6.5 acres, pond, small stream with a 110-year-old stone cooling house, fenced garden, fireplace + woodstove, lots of trees (and brush, briars, poison ivy, misc. thorny stuff, ticks, raccoons, 'possums, foxes. deer, and various Things That Go Bump in the Night.) I’ve been trying to sell it to move someplace that is less work and more allergy-friendly, but now I’m stuck here until there’s a vaccine for covid-19. One man’s paradise, etc.
A house with an extra room big enough for a full size pool table.
A pool as long as there’s somebody else to take care of it.
Underground house with off-the-grid capability.
In case of zombie apocalypse, a turret mounted .50 cal is a desirable option.
@2many2no thats an awfully expensive way to kill zombies; darn near $3 a round at the cheapest
@2many2no @duodec if I understand zombie killing, one needs to shoot them in the brain bucket to kill them? Why not a hi cap .22?
@2many2no @duodec @JnKL Wait, so the giant Tesla coils aren’t going to work?!
@duodec @JnKL @mehcuda67 I could settle for an M60, those are great too. I would need to see heads explode at long range. 7.62 rounds are probably easier to find. Thanks for the help and suggestions
A massive amount of wooded property so I can build my own bicycle trails.
@yakkoTDI Along those same lines, I’d like to have a place with enough property to build my own motocross track.
A library. I do most of my reading electronically now but I love books. I’d love my own library. Wall to wall books in mahogany bookcases. There would be 2 levels with just a walkway on the second level so you can look up and see all the books. It’d have some study spaces, desks and tables, and some comfy reading chairs both proper armchairs and more cushy recliners. Warm indirect lighting would light the whole room but there would be small lamps with cooler light for direct lighting on individual spaces. A couple of windows just so I wouldn’t feel completely cut off from the passage of time.
@FoxSpectre So, leaded casement windows or French windows that lead onto the lawn? Both are good for traditional murder mysteries (to read and to commit).
@FoxSpectre @mossygreen Dusting all those books would kill me - I’d be sneezing all the time. I need to find a really good friend who has said library.
A big, organized, fully-stocked craft/quilting room.
@msklzannie I’ve heard quilting lends respect to hoarding colored pieces of fabric.
Up-to-date, completely functioning utilities and heating system, clean mouse-proof basement, brand new easy-care flooring to replace the dirty old wall-to-wall carpeting, a patio where the water drains away instead of puddling near the sliding glass door…
@Kyeh “Up-to-date, completely functioning utilities and heating system” AND A/C, working with thoroughly updated electrical wiring, all solar-powered and smart-controlled. Sufficient to go off-grid (and be free to operate).
@phendrick Yeah, even better, although I prefer a swamp cooler to AC - it’s dry here.
No obvious entrance.
@ZeroCharisma Thinking of your in-laws, or what?
@ZeroCharisma I used to know a couple with a house that had a large carport added to the front. The front entrance was through the carport. So they enclosed the carport and added a garage door. They could get in and out using the garage door opener, but strangers/solicitors were baffled.
@rockblossom Oh hell yeah, that’s what I’m talking about.
Definitely a pool. I love swimming, and during these sweltering summer months, nothing would be better. Fenris wants one, too!
@PooltoyWolf I thought you had one?
@Kyeh Nope. House is settling, so pool would crack in short order.
@PooltoyWolf Oh, I guess the picture you posted a while back was a friend’s pool?
@Kyeh Correct. Not my pool.
@PooltoyWolf It was a nice one!
@Kyeh He doesn’t live there anymore ;-;
@PooltoyWolf Awww.
A man cave + media room, big enough for my Star Wars collection and a game table, or two.
When I was growing up we had 60 acres mostly dense forest. I never realized how much I would miss it.
@tweezak We have 30 acres of mostly dense PNW forest. It’s nice, but maintaining the trails that allow us to enjoy it is a huge amount of (endless) work.
@macromeh Ours was in the mid-valley in Oregon so it was densely brushed. We had roads through the woods to get to where we cut firewood. The trails were all maintained by the deer.
A retro 80’s arcade room.
A bookcase with a secret book that you pull and opens to the secret room
@CaptAmehrican … and, what’s in there?
@phendrick well that would be my secret
@CaptAmehrican @berosu My friend built one in his house. (Minus the secret book. It just swings open.)
Keanu Reeves
@Zigzagoon
He would have to be John Wick character to live with me, that’s the movie I find him most irresistible in.
@Zigzagoon nice!! Can I visit?
A bevy of amoral redheaded supermodels.
@cinoclav you’re going to be broke, and awful tired!
@JnKL You say that like it’s not worth it.
A secret room behind a built-in bookcase.
No history
A large room solely dedicated as a workroom for my drapery business. Barring that, I just need to move out of my house and back in again to thoroughly clean out!
I’ve always wanted to live in house with no mortgage. I’ve been renting since the divorce, over a decade ago, so really most houses sound nice.
@wonidejack yeah that would be nice.
Servants.
A hobbit hole with a decent size library and lots of cozy surfaces for Odin and I to snuggle on
Wood-burning fireplace
@sive128 We have a fireplace in the main floor living room and a wood stove in the basement TV/family room. After the first couple years, we rarely use the fireplace.
@sive128 @ macromeh I have had five fireplaces in four houses and never used any of them.
@ThunderChicken Gasp!! It’s probably enough of a bother that I’d use it less than I imagine, but…I really want one! Darn the apartment life.
@sive128 Don’t let me stop you. I enjoyed my family’s fireplaces growing up. Buy my ex-wife’s family had a fire start from theirs after everyone had gone to sleep. A hot ember spit out onto the carpet. That was before smoke detectors, but luckily the family dog woke them up. So wifey was not a fan.
I am single now and my only excuse is that I’m lazy.
a view of the beach in Florida, near a nice bar and restaurant of course.
@bayportbob
Id be happy with that
@bayportbob @Star2236 Parallel universe?
Secret passageway. Or a very cool old plantation house with huge trees lining the driveway and inside has to have ballroom, library, people to clean and take care of it and no ghost.
There is a house that is my dream house (never seen inside, it’s just from the stories I’ve herd and what I’ve imagined). It used to be the subs old country club before it burned down and had a ballroom, library, huge dining area, and is also on the point of the lake. Some people bought it and fixed it up real nice.
@Star2236 Heck, I’d even take the ghost if it isn’t malevolent. It could even be fun when I have the grandkids over for the night.
@Star2236 You beat me to it. But the only thing I need is a secret passageway or room. I would tell everyone about it, but it would be obscured from normal entry. And a cool way to enter, is a huge plus. Like copying Universal Studios and creating a camera system that watches wand movements (IR camera with an IR reflector on a wand)
@Star2236 My college roommate lived in a house that used to be part of the underground railway and had all sorts of stuff like that. Then it was an insane asylum and all the light switches were moved to outside of the rooms. Then her family bought it. My roommate had 11 brothers and sisters so likely it was still partly insane asylum. I am sure the kids appreciated the hidden rooms and weirdly located staircases. Parents likely not so much so.
@Kidsandliz
That’s so cool. What state is it in, just out of curiosity?
@Star2236 Rochester, NY
I finally grew out of wanting a fireman’s pole that allowed quick access from the second floor to the first, but I was older than I care to admit.
@DrWorm We grow up and that desire transitions to a giant slide.
@cinoclav @DrWorm A spiral staircase is a more subtle version that is doable.
@cinoclav @DrWorm And eventually it transitions to an elevator.
@DrWorm @macromeh No! I never want to have to rely on a stairlift. If I can’t make it up the stairs on my own, please just kill me. Or at least move me into a ranch house…
@cinoclav @DrWorm @rockblossom Sprial staircase vs. Fireman’s pole in text: swwwiiiiiish thump. dumk dumk dumk dumk dumk dumk ugh ouch dumk dumk dumk dumk dumk thump.
@cinoclav @DrWorm @qkerby I always kinda wanted a spiral staircase going up to a second level (like a library second level) but with the open bottom of the staircase positioned against the wall. There would be a hidden lock/unlock that would allow the staircase to swing around 180 and lock open when needed.
@DrWorm @qkerby @rockblossom When I was a kid we had a vacation house in the Poconos. While looking for one we toured an A-frame with a spiral staircase. The bedrooms were all on the second floor. I was really young but I still remember all of us standing there wondering how the hell we’d ever get any beds and furniture up there. The parents bought a rancher instead. Side note: Wish to hell we still had that house. My dad was an asshole and signed her name to the paperwork and sold it when they divorced.
I’d like a house with a live-in maid.
@robcass and live in cook.
@robcass
That’s what Neil Young said too
(but here is a cover version that is pretty good)
I do live in a house with a bar in the basement.
It wasn’t something I’ve always wanted, but it’s definitely a big part of what sold me on the house.
I’ve lived here for 19 years now and what I really wish I had was a garage. A big one would be great, but I’d settle for one that’s just big enough to fit my car.
Not sure there’s really anything I’ve always wanted.
@DennisG2014 Garages are nice and I’ve rarely had one. No chipping ice off the windshield or brushing off snow, not bird droppings, tree pollen, or blazingly hot car… Two houses I rented and one I owned the garages had been turned into a room. Would have rather had a garage.
@DennisG2014 @Kidsandliz My wife and I both keep our cars in the attached garage. Our country neighbors view us with suspicion.
@DennisG2014 @Kidsandliz I get that people would like more living space in their house, but it really pisses me off when I see they’ve closed off their garage to do so. We have a one car garage but there’s so much stuff in it there will never be a car in there again. I’d love to have one of those giant extended two car garages with plenty of storage or even room for a shop in the back.
@DennisG2014 @macromeh Well I’d rather be viewed with suspicion than chip ice off or open a car that is 140 degrees inside covered in sap, pollen and bird crap.
@cinoclav @DennisG2014 Yes a two car garage would be good. Or in a family already with 2 cars, having a 2 car plus extra space. When my parents had to rebuild their garage because it was falling down they made it big enough to fit 2 large cars and enough room for all the yard stuff, bikes…
@DennisG2014
My boyfriends house has what they say is a 2 car garage but we can’t fit both out cars in it and their not big cars either. So now we park our extra car in there that we barely drive and fill the rest of the space with yard stuff.
I have an automatic starter on my car so it helps in the winter but I still wish I had a garage to park in.
@Star2236 On the bright side, you’re not remote starting your car while it’s parked inside. Carbon monoxide is a bitch.
@cinoclav @DennisG2014 @Kidsandliz Our attached garage is just big enough for two cars, plus a freezer, beer keg-erator and some shelves around the perimeter. The 1700 sqft. barn is for storing all the tools, animal feed and assorted crap.
Indoor plumbing. May seem like a low bar to some, but its absence is a total deal breaker.
@macromeh I’d add electricity to that.
No mortgage
@tinamarie1974 how does this not have more likes?
@JnKL well that is what I was wondering!! Maybe it is too practical for this group lol
@tinamarie1974 that happened this .month!! Due to the lockdown, less money spent on going to movies, the commute to the office, etc. I was able to double up on payments and paid off almost 18 months early
@ironcheftoni oh congratulations, that is amazing!!!
/giphy celebration
I’d like my house to be in a non-light-polluted area with room for an astronomical observatory. (I have friends with this, though the domed observatory is on the property, not on the roof. Close enough.)
a basement… period. I have always lived in places where basements are not feasible either due to high water table or bedrock. I’ve always liked the idea of a basement but never had one.
@infornography Wait until your always dry in the past basement floods. My parents got us kids up in the middle of the night to create a chain to put things upstairs when ours flooded for the first time. It ended up about 4’ deep with filthy water in the end. But other than that it is nice to have somewhere to put things that you want out of the way but inside.
@infornography @Kidsandliz
My friend lived in an old house with an old Michigan style basement, those are creepy.
@infornography Pretty funny. I’ve always wanted to live in a house without a basement. Useless dusty dark cobwebby spidery places they are. Shudder.
A dojo. i want a traditional Japanese style dojo with tatami mats, a shrine at Shomen, wall racks for weapons, and sliding shoji screen walls that can open to a lovely view in good weather.
And an arts and crafting space with room for my beloved’s metalworking/jewelry smithing, a pottery studio, a glass blowing studio, and a spinning and weaving studio (and maybe a woodworking shop).
And a gourmet kitchen. And a library with bookshelves so tall we need one of those sliding ladders to get to the top shelves.
… a sex dungeon. Kidding… Or am I?
/giphy shifty eyes
@OnionSoup but just think of all the cleaning and disinfecting to keep it shnazzy. Maybe a “sex nook” within the bedroom?
@OnionSoup This house was for sale last year. It’s about 30 minutes from me. Needless to say, the neighbors weren’t thrilled about it.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/sex-house-for-sale-maple-glen-pennsylvania
@cinoclav lol… Yes, it’s that article (or one on same subject from a different source) that inspired my answer.
Honestly, can’t see why neighbours should mind as long as everything is consensual and legal.
I couldn’t care less what my fellow suburbanites do when their blinds are drawn. Key parties, sounding, rampant orgies, as long as they keep the sound down so I can’t hear.
Folks, always wear a gag if you can otherwise be heard by the neighbours.
@cinoclav @OnionSoup that is probably one of the classiest sex “dungeons” I’ve ever seen.
@OnionSoup I think the real issue is that they turned it into an AirBnB. Guess they were tired of all the strangers constantly going and… coming.
@RiotDemon and how many sex dungeons have you seen to compare?
@cinoclav @OnionSoup Hey that thing actually sold after being on the market for a year.
@JnKL @RiotDemon Being able to take a little pain is probably a requirement to being a moderator here.
@cinoclav @Kidsandliz darn! Too late!
/ Out of my price range.
@JnKL @OnionSoup hahaha. I’ll never tell.
/giphy sadistic
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I’d like to live in a house with Jay Leno’s garage attached, and the cars included. Or I could just live in the garage.
I’ve always wanted to live in a house with Catherine Zeta-Jones.
I have a house with a large two car garage (in which we keep two cars), a large shed with a third car, tools, and storage, a full completely, dry basement with a wet bar and 5 wooded, isolated acres.
I wish I had either more land or less woods for a bigger garden, a larger outbuilding for a skid-steer, an excavator, and truck and trailer to haul them in, so I could go play in the dirt with grown up toys, and a more land for a runway and a hangar for my airplane, so I could play in the sky without having to drive to the airport, pay hangar fees, etc.
Woe is me…
NOT!
For I no longer have an airplane and all the costs that go with it, and I have never had a skid-steer, excavator, etc. nor the cost and problems of keeping them up. (20+ years of aircraft ownership was enough for a lifetime.)
The bar in the basement makes up for a lot of that, eh?
Always wanted to live in a house with a swimming pool-moved to FL and bought a house that came with a pool and upgraded it to the pool of my dreams. 13 years later it was becoming a cash drain-$ 75 a month for maintenance, pool motor just replaced for $ 500. Salt water system was on its last legs and gas heater was way beyond it 8 year useful life. Person who bought my house hired a pool contractor to estimate what it would cost to update all the equipment and that came to over 5k. I said if it was still working no matter how old, wasn’t going to fix it, but agreed to clean the stains on the bottom which meant the pool had to be drained and muriatic acid scrubbed-cost $ 800 plus water to refill it.
Everyone in my new neighborhood who came from out-of -state bought a house with a pool or had one built-after 13 years that was enough for me. Even if I wanted to add a pool would never be as nice as this one. Pic of my pool.