Wednesday, July 23, 2008
$tupid
Here's a few quotes from a recent story from Los Angeles about a person buying a condo there:
The widow of producer Aaron Spelling paid a whopping $47 million for a two-story condo atop a Century City residential tower that's still under construction, her lawyer said.- Her current abode, a 123-room mansion that she and her husband dubbed "The Manor," is the largest home in Los Angeles County at 56,500 square feet.
The house in the affluent Holmby Hills neighborhood sits on six acres and has 11 bedrooms, 16 bathrooms and amenities such as a bowling alley, doll museum and gift-wrapping room.
Related Cos., developer of the Century project, said Spelling's new digs will have a living room with two working fireplaces, a dining room for 25 guests, a 4,000-square-foot master bedroom suite and a conservatory with a rose garden, as well as a swimming pool and deck.
Goldberg said Spelling was moving in order to downscale her living space after her husband's death in 2006. She'll now seek to sell her lavish estate, which was built between 1986 and 1990, he said. (emphasis mine)
Believe me, there is no envy here on my part. Not that I wouldn't mind having a few of her millions to waste on my own. But I find it amazing that one person could be such a pig. What on earth can any person possibly do with a 4000 sq. ft. bedroom? That's over three times bigger than my entire house! Actually, when looking at new houses, we passed on an affordable 3300 sq. ft. house because the size would have been wasted on us. One of the big problems in the USofA is reading something like this in the same week where I read a letter about a local charity that gives $350 to a person so he won't be kicked out of his one-bedroom apartment (I'm guessing that bedroom is a tad under 4,000 sq. ft.). I find it a little sad that we live in a country where one person can spend $47 million on a second residence and another person can't come up with $350 to pay the rent.
