Bill Gates' House 66,000 sq. ft. Kid You Not Per Google

[JDPriestly]

http://www.chuggnutt.com/2006/05/04/bill_gates_house.html

* Assessed values (as of 2002) of $113 million, with over $1 million in annual property tax
* 66,000 square feet
* The wood columns from main floor to roof in entry area are over 70 feet tall.
* Some of the interior passage doors weigh over 800 lbs, but are balanced for easy use.
* The roofing is stainless steel.
* Hidden cameras are everywhere, including the interior stone walls.
* Gates insisted on saving a 40 year old maple adjacent to the driveway. The tree is monitored electronically 24 hours per day via computer. If it seems dry, it gets just the right amount of water automatically delivered.
* All woodwork is flawless. Much of the woodwork is of various rare types from all over the world - imported especially for this house.
* The theater (underground in a concrete shell) is the most state of the art theatre in the world according to specialty contractor.

Now there is wealth for you.

[Redstone]

1. I think I'm going to throw up now.

Redstone

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

2. That's not a house

it looks like a small village

[Bucky]

3. "The most state of the art theatre in the world" would need to have a machine that could...

...get the butter down to the bottom of the bag.

Also sound-triggered lasers that could take out people who forget to turn their cell phones off.

[Little Wing]

4. I think I live in about 1% of that square footage

Oh well.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

5. Just because its BillGates...

I hope this house is run with WindowsXP. :sarcasm:

Bill probably runs it on his own "Linux"

[bridgit]

6. and to think...

god bless america :patriot:

[JVS]

7. I hope all of our libertarianesque DUers defend his right to spend his hard-earned money as he wants

:popcorn:

[Deja Q]

8. Poor baby. If he hates the taxes, let him move.

Like to India. He likes to move jobs over there...

Which reminds me, I'm going to see what Steve Jobs lives in. I doubt it's a double-wide trailer...

:evilgrin:

[Zuiderelle]

9. I'd rather someone as philanthropic as Bill Gates have such wealth

than so many others who do. I just can't work up much anger towards him (or his excesses) when there are so many other really horrific people in the world.