Depends. Can the butler help protect my secret identity and assist with my crime fighting?
If a small nation counts as an “estate”, then yes, I want one. Servants? I am the servant of my citizens!
Mansion? Nah. I’d be more than happy with a bungalow in the suburbs.
As for servants: define “servants.” I’d probably hire a lawn guy and a cleaning service, but I’d have no need for full-time, live-in help.
Might be fun when you are younger and have extended family or friends to come visit and get around and enjoy it all!
However, if your spouse dies and the family/friends start to die off/move away - nothing sadder than living alone in a huge mansion full of memories of times gone by.
I think I would stay there for maybe a year, then sell it and buy a two bedroom house in some exotic location, where it is warm and balmy and a nice view of the ocean. Might be nice to then have some hired help come in on a regular basis though.
Oh, and take some of that extra money and just have a direct line to a travel agent to book trips for extended vacations around the world.
L’Etat c’est moi? :dubious:
Versailles may be a bit beyond the scope of this Thread.
No mansion for me, thank you. 3,000 square feet somewhere comfortable and uncrowded is all I’d want. Hiring people for the cooking, cleaning and grounds maintenance chores would definitely be a luxury I’d allow myself, though. And maybe a driver for lots of long road trips to interesting places.
My husband and I would stay where we are, (single family home) but make some improvements and pay off the mortgage. We’d use the rest of the money for other things.
I am rich from kid i am may be rich and have 15 servants as here labour is cheap 4 are guards 2 are gardeners 3 are drivers 1 is my pa also my butler 1 is a cook 1helps her 1 takes care of my kid and the other 7 clean make bed etc as jobs are find to hard here they accept to do everything even massaging my dirty feet after i exercise so here life is pleasant i find it normal like when i return from office servant kneels down remove my high heels massage my feet another one servant serving me wine so i find it very normal
I am rich from kid i am may be rich and have 20 servants as here labour is cheap 4 are guards 2 are gardeners 3 are drivers 1 is my pa also my butler 1 is a cook 1helps her 1 takes care of my kid and the other 7 clean make bed etc as jobs are find to hard here they accept to do everything even massaging my dirty feet after i exercise so here life is pleasant i find it normal like when i return from office servant kneels down remove my high heels massage my feet another one servant serving me wine so i find it very normal
There are quite a few really really fancy apartments and condos that I’ve seen in magazines and such that I’d LOVE to live in. The mansion, as others have said, would just be too big. The rest of the time, I figure the yacht would be just fine.
As for servants, the only one I really require is cleaning staff. Everything else, even the chef, is optional. Oh, maybe a driver. But he too would be optional.
giving it some more thought I would enjoy some kind of industrial building turned mansion. It could be an old monastery or factory or anything unique. It would be neat to have a gymnasium and some handball courts and an industrial kitchen. There are a lot of old factories that ooze history and interesting architecture.
Sell the mansion (maybe the next owner would want the staff?), buy a smaller (I dislike large houses, 1500 sq ft sounds about right) but very nice house with a back garden in an extremely nice area of one of my favorite American cities, fill it with beautiful and personal possessions, and travel like mad. Maybe buy property internationally if someplace struck my fancy as a second home.
I’m a loner and like to do things my way, by myself. I hate having people invade my home. The farthest I’d go with ‘staff’ is a weekly cleaning lady, and a part-time nanny if I had kids.
But maybe he can get Neuschwanstein moved to Liechstenstein.
Gezundheit.
My last house was 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1300 square feet. And still, there were rooms that, at one point, I had to make an effort to remember to go in at least once every several months to dust and inspect (make sure the walls weren’t [del]bleeding[/del] peeling) or whatever.
One of my hobbies is looking at houses. The internet is a gift in that department. There is this awesome 1900-ish mansion on Lowry Hill in Minneapolis for sale for $6.5 million. I think if I owned it, I’d just sit in the middle of it squeeling with delight and achieving orgasm for days on end. But eventually, I would have no fucking clue what to do with all of that space. Is an issue with looking at more reasonable houses in the city I live in too. I want a larger lot, but I have no fucking use for the 5 bedroom houses I usually find parked on them.
And I’ve said in the past, if I won the lottery, I’m more likely to try to find the perfect piece of land, and then build a 2 bedroom house on it, with large rooms.
I’d sell it all, buy some prime real estate in the center of town, and build a 50-story Art Deco luxury residential skyscraper. I’d reserve the top three stories for myself, and design a huge apartment with multiple balconies and a view of the sea. The rest of the apartments I’d sell or rent.
(I’d also make sure that the garage will feature a secret parking level accessible only through my private elevator. For future projects).
If it’s in a location I already like (not just city, but actual location), I may just knock down the mansion and build a smaller house of my own design that suits my needs. The outside portion of the property would still be palatial.
I would retain a chauffeur (everyday city driving sucks!), a gardener and groundskeeper, and have a cleaning service. I don’t mind doing my own laundry and cooking, but everyday housecleaning is something I would be happy to pay someone else to handle.
Dude, you’re rich as shit, why sell anything?
I’m turning that mansion into an awesome, unique and lucrative hotel while I build myself a secluded, reasonable sized dwelling on the premises. And that will keep the help employed, while sharing my eccentric design tastes with all comers.
I’d lose the personal staff (butler, chauffeur, cooks) and keep the maintenance staff (gardeners, cleaners) and I’d turn most of the mansion over on lease to some NGO or other - maybe a shelter for battered women or a sensible environmental org. We’d live in a house on the grounds, though (build one if we have to), and enjoy the estate.
Realistically, would probably relocate and the next house would be somewhat larger, but really I can’t see needing more than 6,000 sq feet and a 4-5 car garage/workshop. I’d keep gardeners as needed, someone to clean the house, and a chef to cook healthy, wonderful meals.
That personal assistant sounds pretty good, too.