@shahnm@stolicat well you can have the bunk room, sure! In my mind there is a large master suite with walk in closet, soaking tub, steam shower w multiple shower heads in the back of the house with big windows so I can soak and enjoy the view! I can sleep there
@daveinwarsh@LaVikinga I’m noticing a severe lack of proper flotation or safety devices for that pool. I also noticed no safety-oriented signage visible for the bathers. There’s hijinks and malarkey to surely ensue at that location!
Nowhere is great because it’s usually populated by no one. I like the idea of living somewhere where I don’t hear my neighbors, a busy street, or sirens and train horns at all hours of the day.
@ChompyGator After living in the sticks for 21 years, I have learned that it is amazing how far sound will travel with the right atmospheric conditions. In my case it’s normally peace and quiet and birdsong, but on certain days, it’s traffic and trains.
I would prefer more of a condo than a penthouse. Who wants to take care of a sprawling manor, the cleaning, the grounds, the insufferable staff? Every time I give them a paycheck it’s always, “Ohhhh…ahhh…look! Master gave Dobby a sock.” Who needs that kind of abuse? Besides topiary animals creep me out. Once I got lost in the hedge maze and …well I digress.
The manor without neighbors sounds great. If I need to use power tools or crank my music or bass amp up, I just don’t give a damn regardless of where I live. I make quite a bit of loud noise every night after I check meh.com. I guess I could at least avoid some awkward encounters.
@narfcake I see some one-bedrooms that’re about $4k/month. So you figure that’s a mortgage payment… what is that, like a million+ dollar house in the middle of beautiful nowhere?
Easy-peasy. Alls I’ve got to do is have a better speaking voice, video skills, be photogenic, and apparently acquire a vast trove of bicycles.
I pay an unbelievable amount of money to live in a 4 floor walk up apt in the middle of Brooklyn and always wonder how these motherfuckers afford their fancy apts just 2 subway stops away. Let alone Manhattan. Apt envy is in every NYer’s blood.
I live in the middle of nowhere now. I have to drive everywhere, mow the grass, shovel snow, rake leaves, have the septic pumped out, maintain the well, take my trash to the dump, clean out gutters, and paint the place every 3-5 years. I just had half the roof replaced, and the furnace is limping along with only a year or so left in its lifespan. Last year someone bashed my mailbox and half of the rest of them on my road. And last night my nearest neighbor, 1/4 mile away, decided to have an hour-long fireworks display that nearly drove my dog insane.
If I had a penthouse apartment, someone else would attend to all the maintenance, city laws would contain the mayhem, and I could at last discover what leisure really is.
I have too many hobbies that don’t go well with apartment living. Neighbors tend to frown when you shoot a competition bow in the hallways or practice kumite over their heads. Not to mention needing space with ventilation for combustible gasses and a glory hole and kiln. Then there is the pet issue…
• can’t play music
• don’t have room for things
• am surrounded
• get to pay what I am told to pay
• own nothing, have no authority to so much as fix anything
• hate the woman who lives above me. She is my arch enemy.
A penthouse would help, but a secluded manor would really solve the domicile issue.
@daveinwarsh I swear I have never seen that show but that song is imprinted on my brain real deep. How about that flyover video? You think somebody was leaning out the side of a helicopter?
Neither. I want about 1200 sf, pre WW2 (or at least pre 1970) home in a nice, quiet neighborhood where people hang out on their porches, with a smaller yard (I hate yard work), relatively close to all the cool things that happen in cities. I want a big front porch where I can hang my grandmother’s porch swing, have some gliders… and hammock in the back.I also want it located near the mountains and also a reasonable drive to the beach. Not in a flood zone, not in earthquake land, preferably where tornadoes and hurricanes are rare. I want it to be sunny a lot (grew up in the snow belt and not much sunshine) but not where it is a zillion degrees at 99.9% humidity for months on end nor where there are blizzards all the time. I want all 4 seasons. Hmm this is going to be hard to find I think.
Not thrilled with either. Guess a penthouse with a roof top space and near a big park for the dog would be better. NYC has gotten so expensive all the nice mom and pop stores are gone. That makes getting stuff hard. The middle of nowhere is a pia too. Drive miles to get milk. Dog wouldn’t have any dog friends to play with. Plus now you have to worry about coyotes. Although there are 2 eagles living 3 miles from here (they have a nest right on the border of NYC and long island, so they are officially city birds.
Despite my love for cars and driving, it has become such a PITA that if I never drive again, I don’t much care. I was at my healthiest when I had to walk everywhere, or if the ultimate destination was too far, walk to the bus stop. So I prefer to live where I can walk for most needs and Uber for the rest. Also, I tend to hibernate but I know having contact with other people is good for me, or so they say.
The grass is always greener on the other side…
Well, unless the other side is the city, where everything is black and gray, and dirty, and crowded, and loud, and gross.
I don’t need no sprawling manor, but I’ll take the middle of nowhere, within reason - no desire to live in the jungle or desert.
Sprawling Manor because there’s probably more closet space.
Here
@tinamarie1974 You want to live in a field next to a small pond, facing a quaint rustic cottage?
@shahnm @tinamarie1974 dibs on the top bunk!
@tinamarie1974 Why do you want a mosquito hatchery in your front yard?
@shahnm @stolicat well you can have the bunk room, sure! In my mind there is a large master suite with walk in closet, soaking tub, steam shower w multiple shower heads in the back of the house with big windows so I can soak and enjoy the view! I can sleep there
My dog would be happier in a sprawling manor.
Space, no neighbors
@daveinwarsh Complete with a ceee-ment pond!
@daveinwarsh @LaVikinga I’m noticing a severe lack of proper flotation or safety devices for that pool. I also noticed no safety-oriented signage visible for the bathers. There’s hijinks and malarkey to surely ensue at that location!
@daveinwarsh @therealjrn Some of us come with built-in flotation devices.
No neighbors!
Middle of nowhere. The zombies will take longer to find me.
Nowhere is great because it’s usually populated by no one. I like the idea of living somewhere where I don’t hear my neighbors, a busy street, or sirens and train horns at all hours of the day.
@ChompyGator After living in the sticks for 21 years, I have learned that it is amazing how far sound will travel with the right atmospheric conditions. In my case it’s normally peace and quiet and birdsong, but on certain days, it’s traffic and trains.
Middle of Nowhere. Lack of diversity
Sprawling manor. More room for refrigerators for more room for batteries…
/giphy duh
I would prefer more of a condo than a penthouse. Who wants to take care of a sprawling manor, the cleaning, the grounds, the insufferable staff? Every time I give them a paycheck it’s always, “Ohhhh…ahhh…look! Master gave Dobby a sock.” Who needs that kind of abuse? Besides topiary animals creep me out. Once I got lost in the hedge maze and …well I digress.
sprawling manor with lots of closet space; No Neighbors!
The manor without neighbors sounds great. If I need to use power tools or crank my music or bass amp up, I just don’t give a damn regardless of where I live. I make quite a bit of loud noise every night after I check meh.com. I guess I could at least avoid some awkward encounters.
Jobs means the city for now, but when I retire, rural.
/youtube berm peak
@narfcake Since 99.9999% of my job requires no interaction with other employees. The remaining 0.0001% can be handled with a phone call/webex session.
I want to work from home so I can do something similar to this.
@narfcake “Amazing dirt.”
@narfcake I see some one-bedrooms that’re about $4k/month. So you figure that’s a mortgage payment… what is that, like a million+ dollar house in the middle of beautiful nowhere?
Easy-peasy. Alls I’ve got to do is have a better speaking voice, video skills, be photogenic, and apparently acquire a vast trove of bicycles.
… all my plans come always to nothing!
@InnocuousFarmer With a 4.25% interest, $4k a month is roughly a $800k mortgage for a 30 year, $900k for a 40 year.
Beyond the bikes, there’s also skills and the occasional ouch factor. Seth has had his fair share of injuries while riding at times too.
I’m taking penthouse because it’s probably quiet and there’s less to clean
I pay an unbelievable amount of money to live in a 4 floor walk up apt in the middle of Brooklyn and always wonder how these motherfuckers afford their fancy apts just 2 subway stops away. Let alone Manhattan. Apt envy is in every NYer’s blood.
@00 “That’s incredible. Imagine seven million people all wanting to live together. Yeah, New York must be the friendliest place on earth.”
I live in the middle of nowhere now. I have to drive everywhere, mow the grass, shovel snow, rake leaves, have the septic pumped out, maintain the well, take my trash to the dump, clean out gutters, and paint the place every 3-5 years. I just had half the roof replaced, and the furnace is limping along with only a year or so left in its lifespan. Last year someone bashed my mailbox and half of the rest of them on my road. And last night my nearest neighbor, 1/4 mile away, decided to have an hour-long fireworks display that nearly drove my dog insane.
If I had a penthouse apartment, someone else would attend to all the maintenance, city laws would contain the mayhem, and I could at last discover what leisure really is.
@Ambiverbal So you’re saying the grass is greener?
@Ambiverbal “[C]ity laws would contain the mayhem…” That’s adorbs. I’m guessing you’ve never actually lived in the city, then.
@cadmore 17 years in Washington DC and is suburbs.
@Ambiverbal Kind of Mayhem Central, that place. Just fled Alexandria, myself. I did not see much containment.
Sprawling Manor with a gun turret.
Get off my lawn.
The sprawling manor would have plenty of room for antennas. Maybe a few towers and beams. Every ham dreams of one day owning an antenna farm.
Well, since people are the worst, not the penthouse.
I have too many hobbies that don’t go well with apartment living. Neighbors tend to frown when you shoot a competition bow in the hallways or practice kumite over their heads. Not to mention needing space with ventilation for combustible gasses and a glory hole and kiln. Then there is the pet issue…
@inanna a glory hole and a kiln? I didn’t know that was how pottery was glazed. But now I know more about why Pottery Barn has appeal.
I mean, I’d look it up, but I am a little frightened to type “glory hole” into Google without proper PPE on hand.
@djslack @inanna look it up - it has an interesting historical meaning before frat boys and big porno hijacked the term …
@stolicat ok, you convinced me, and I read about glassblowing. I learned something today.
I had clearly only ever been exposed to the frat boy definition.
More room to play and have adventures with the grand children… middle of nowhere.
“…Land spreading out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.”
@LaVikinga dahling I love you but give me ParkAvenue
If I can afford a penthouse…I can afford a maid
It’s the noise. Get me outta range of the leaf blowers, sirens, air planes, helicopters, car horns, etc. Middle of nowhere sounds fine.
@dhelmick56 Trust me, there are plenty of leaf blowers, air planes and helicopters in the countryside. And target shooters to boot.
Manor. Not a lot of neighbors, not a lot of noise, plenty of space.
I’m assuming this is all paid for.
Can I keep hounds and horses?
I need my space from people and all of the commotion. And the fresh air!
I need nightlife and lights and culture! Penthouse!
… easier to hide bodies on a sprawling manor in the middle of nowhere … just sayin’
I live in an apartment now, not even in a city. I
• can’t play music
• don’t have room for things
• am surrounded
• get to pay what I am told to pay
• own nothing, have no authority to so much as fix anything
• hate the woman who lives above me. She is my arch enemy.
A penthouse would help, but a secluded manor would really solve the domicile issue.
@daveinwarsh I swear I have never seen that show but that song is imprinted on my brain real deep. How about that flyover video? You think somebody was leaning out the side of a helicopter?
@daveinwarsh @InnocuousFarmer
Cropduster, most likely, I reckon.
Neither. I want about 1200 sf, pre WW2 (or at least pre 1970) home in a nice, quiet neighborhood where people hang out on their porches, with a smaller yard (I hate yard work), relatively close to all the cool things that happen in cities. I want a big front porch where I can hang my grandmother’s porch swing, have some gliders… and hammock in the back.I also want it located near the mountains and also a reasonable drive to the beach. Not in a flood zone, not in earthquake land, preferably where tornadoes and hurricanes are rare. I want it to be sunny a lot (grew up in the snow belt and not much sunshine) but not where it is a zillion degrees at 99.9% humidity for months on end nor where there are blizzards all the time. I want all 4 seasons. Hmm this is going to be hard to find I think.
@Kidsandliz
/image Ojai California
and I forgot - not in a huge forest fire risk zone or, after today’s news about New Zealand, right next to an active volcano.
Not thrilled with either. Guess a penthouse with a roof top space and near a big park for the dog would be better. NYC has gotten so expensive all the nice mom and pop stores are gone. That makes getting stuff hard. The middle of nowhere is a pia too. Drive miles to get milk. Dog wouldn’t have any dog friends to play with. Plus now you have to worry about coyotes. Although there are 2 eagles living 3 miles from here (they have a nest right on the border of NYC and long island, so they are officially city birds.
I like heights.
/image penthouse balcony view
Middle of nowhere so I’m not by other humans.
Despite my love for cars and driving, it has become such a PITA that if I never drive again, I don’t much care. I was at my healthiest when I had to walk everywhere, or if the ultimate destination was too far, walk to the bus stop. So I prefer to live where I can walk for most needs and Uber for the rest. Also, I tend to hibernate but I know having contact with other people is good for me, or so they say.
The grass is always greener on the other side…
Well, unless the other side is the city, where everything is black and gray, and dirty, and crowded, and loud, and gross.
I don’t need no sprawling manor, but I’ll take the middle of nowhere, within reason - no desire to live in the jungle or desert.
Penthouse cause uh, PENTHOUSE…and Uber Eats, Postmate, Doordash, Grubhub and everything else nearby.
Can I do penthouse with a country manor retreat?
/giphy best of both worlds
Is the manor stately?
Not enough Northeasterners voted. Penthouse. Your back will thank you in the winter.
Definitely middle of nowhere. I have a dog. Letting her out in the yard is awesome.
Plus if the property is big enough, horses.
I’d be ok with crashing at Wayne Manor with access to the Batwing and Batcar for grocery runs.
KuoH
sounds cool
@rubyarcox what does?