Yes, so what, it's a mansion with lots of mansion stuff ...

"John Norris (AngryDrifter)" (angrydrifter)
10/10/2015 at 21:15 • Filed to: None

... but “A 12-car garage is also attached to the main home.”

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DISCUSSION (35)

My citroen won't start > John Norris (AngryDrifter)
10/10/2015 at 21:19

Holy mother of tacky

TheHondaBro > John Norris (AngryDrifter)
10/10/2015 at 21:19

I want it.

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > John Norris (AngryDrifter)
10/10/2015 at 21:20

$1 is a dollar too much to get me to live in Alabama

-signed a guy living in North Jersey

TheHondaBro > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/10/2015 at 21:22

Kinja'd!!!

pip bip - choose Corrour > TheHondaBro
10/10/2015 at 21:24

*facepalm*

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > John Norris (AngryDrifter)
10/10/2015 at 21:26

I lovea good mansion as much as the next guy, but that inside is one of the worst things I've ever seen.

John Norris (AngryDrifter) > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
10/10/2015 at 21:27

Gut it, make more garage space.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/10/2015 at 21:33

Aw. It’s not that bad here.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > My citroen won't start
10/10/2015 at 21:34

There’s a lot of houses like that.

My citroen won't start > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
10/10/2015 at 21:36

It looks a lot like nouveau rich trying to be old money and asserting even more the nouveau rich status because god awful.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > My citroen won't start
10/10/2015 at 21:38

There are whole neighborhoods like this in AL.

touring the brook - now with ZHP! > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/10/2015 at 21:40

It’s not that horrible. Just stay away from the city, and the countryside, and you’ll have to deal with fat people, racist people, and stuck-up rich people from the “over the mountain suburbs” of Birmingham, and the endless bro trucks, but after all of that, you should be good.

But seriously, it’s actually not that bad.

-signed a guy living in one of the suburbs mentioned

touring the brook - now with ZHP! > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
10/10/2015 at 21:41

Agreed.

davedave1111 > John Norris (AngryDrifter)
10/10/2015 at 21:54

Bloody povs. That’s what they call having more money than sense, and not much money. If you’re going to do it, get the money and do it right.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-s…

Or if you’re absolutely determined to live in a monstrosity, there’s always this.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-s…

BKosher84 > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/10/2015 at 22:13

This move would be lateral.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > My citroen won't start
10/10/2015 at 22:20

Notice that it’s just a few hundred yards from a bunch of little tract homes, and downhill from a lake/reservoir, two things I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near if I just spent 8 figures on a house.

Reading up on the owner, Larry House, it sounds like the usual story - lots of failed mergers with inflated values, overstated finances, large lawsuits ($56M) settled without admitting fault, executives pleading guilty to accounting fraud, bad management in acquisitions tanking stock values, running a venture capital firm, etc. so on and so forth. He built a house bigger than his boss’s 20,000 sq ft lake house. How many people found themselves out of work because of this dick-waving contest?

Since he’s over 65 he hasn’t had to pay any property takes in the last two years, which is a savings for him of over $100K. That policy is probably a good thing for the average senior citizen with an average retirement account, but should there be a cap or limit? It seems that a house that big would have a bigger drain on city resources, but what do I know...

Frank Grimes > John Norris (AngryDrifter)
10/10/2015 at 22:21

For a house shaped like a guitar its not bad.

I would gut the horse pens and store more horses in the stable than like 6 convert the riding area to a go kart and mini bike track. Take all of the paintings and have a bon fire on the lawn and get rid of most of the interior decoration. Also a huge shop with lathes and mills and frame table and crap like that.

My citroen won't start > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
10/10/2015 at 22:24

I full on agree with you, once again income inequality comes up, millionaires pay little tax and do great damage and the rest of the populace suffer from their mistakes.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
10/10/2015 at 22:36

Totally beats Florida and Pennsylvania, it’s actually less racist than both.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
10/10/2015 at 22:54

Can confirm the Florida thing. Never been to Pennsylvania

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
10/10/2015 at 22:59

It’s the whitest, most racist place east of the Mississippi. It is the summary of every joke about the south.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
10/10/2015 at 23:02

Sounds horrible.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
10/10/2015 at 23:21

Still better than Florida.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
10/10/2015 at 23:28

Are we allowed to like vote Florida out?

lone_liberal > John Norris (AngryDrifter)
10/11/2015 at 00:03

If it was 300 years old, and in France, and didn’t look like a guitar then it would be fine. Since it is new, in Alabama and does look like a guitar it is terrible.

911e46z06 > John Norris (AngryDrifter)
10/11/2015 at 00:48

10/10 would buy for 100 grand, gut, and make into an indoor go-kart track.

John Norris (AngryDrifter) > davedave1111
10/11/2015 at 00:50

regarding rightmov.co.uk ... for $60 mil US

“... garaging for 3 to 4 cars, and off street parking for another 3 to 4 cars”

I’m sorry. They really have their priorities crossed up. I’m not buying.

Dusty Ventures > John Norris (AngryDrifter)
10/11/2015 at 02:59

I’d buy it and turn it into the American Dovenby Hall

Kinja'd!!!

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
10/11/2015 at 09:10

Nope, too many military bases.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
10/11/2015 at 09:15

Can’t we just move those?

Frenchlicker > davedave1111
10/11/2015 at 12:23

There is a beautiful seaside castle I recall seeing online over there for 8 figures that I would buy in a heartbeat before this one.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
10/11/2015 at 12:44

No, they are kind of a curse to live around. They are loud, they take up a lot of space, and waste a lot of land that could be used as offroad trails or nature trails. Florida deserves them.

davedave1111 > Frenchlicker
10/11/2015 at 13:22

Oh, as soon as you get out of London, property is more reasonable - to an extent. You can get a lovely country estate with a proper house and plenty of acres for a quarter or less of that kind of money, and still be somewhere you can commute into the City. Further away, there’s all kinds of stuff for what seems like really quite reasonable prices when you’re used to a typical 3-bed suburban house costing $1m+.

I love this one - you don’t grow hedges like that unless you started when Columbus was still wetting the bed:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-s…

And blimey O’Reilly, this one’s really quite something:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-s…

OK, not money I have right now, but unlike the two silly ones in central London, it’s conceivable that if I do well for myself, I might one day have a house like that. Probably not to afford the upkeep, tho...

But if you want cheap castles, look to France.

http://www.prestigeproperty.co.uk/property/17273…

http://www.prestigeproperty.co.uk/property/16436…

http://www.prestigeproperty.co.uk/property/17654…

And if we’re talking 8 figures...

http://www.prestigeproperty.co.uk/property/12020…

Frenchlicker > davedave1111
10/11/2015 at 14:56

What I'm jealous of is the old world charm. You cannot fake age as much as you may try and that is one thing that part of the world will always have a leg up on us in. I believe the seaside castle I saw was in Ireland, it had a turret built right on the edge of a cliff to watch the sea. It was absolutely beautiful.

davedave1111 > Frenchlicker
10/12/2015 at 08:23

Oh, definitely, that’s what I was getting at with the hedges. You can fake the building reasonably well, with enough money. You can’t fake the gardens.

Reminds me of the old joke about the US tourist in Oxford, who asks one of the college porters how they get the lawn so perfectly smooth in the quad. The porter replies ‘oh, it’s very simple, just regular mowing, with a little light top-dressing, for nine hundred years’.