Honestly he wasn't wealthy before
love how even the rich have to have huge clearcut swathes of lawn ruining their huge yards. that priceless feeling of privacy, sitting in a coastal wind tunnel.
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How will you be able to look out over your property and see how much land you have and feel better than others for it, if you don't destroy the biodiversity on it?
There's already a little tower there that's clear above the trees if I'm interpreting the picture correctly, so they could just look at it from there.
or from one of his thousands of drones
I'm the kind of pyscho who, if I had Obama money to build giant ass houses with, would make a tower at least 5 stories tall with an elevator so I could sit at the top and throw things off of it.
Id make a lighthouse so I could scream curses at Poseidon after doing rich people drugs
. The ideal house
In bad country the elite lives in lavish oversized palace compounds while the civilian population struggle to get by.
Wtf is the giant strip of grass to the left for? He landing light planes there? It's hideous.
It's probably so you have a clear view from that side of the house to the water.
Maybe that's Secret Service procedure
I think it's just standard rich person nonsense. The amount of destruction wrought by people who want to be able to see something they could otherwise easily walk to from their floor-to-ceiling windowed dining room is incredibly high. I have a vague recollection of some rich tech guy buying the mansion in front of his and demolishing it for a better view of something.
i'd have thought that would be less secure
clear line of sight for a sniper on a boat
If you like your goofy ass architectural monstrosity, you can keep it! 
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I wouldn't mind the head of the Executive having an ugly ass lake house if it wasn't paid by the bankers and Wall Street vultures he bailed out. And if he wasn't a war criminal POS.
I wouldn't mind the head of state to be a democratically elected person who meritocratically rose from the rank and file of the communist party through action and showing complete devotion for making peoples' lives better and fighting for the rights of the less fortunate (i.e. Lenin/Stalin/Mao) and this person getting a nice dacha to live in. But as you say, that's not the case.
Nothing better than larping as a feudal lord
Milord
in a Warcraft 3 voice
Damn those fees for giving speeches and putting his name on some shitty movies pay really well
you didn't build that
What a monstrosity of a house, jfc it's so bad
Makes me wonder what kind of psychopath wants to live on a barren swath of land completely devoid of people.
There's no way I could own a monstrocity like this without also inviting my closest friends and their families to rent-free living on a beautiful estate. There's no realistic way to turn something this remote into anything useful to workings class people.
Makes me wonder what kind of psychopath wants to live on a barren swath of land completely devoid of people.
Nothing wrong with a bit of solitude. There's something almost cozy about being the only human for miles in any direction.
Obviously doing it this extravagantly is wrong, but a house out in the middle of the woods away from everyone else isn't something that's bad to want.
My point is less that wanting a large plot of land or solitude is weird and more that having a massive McMansion in a place remote enough to make it a challenge to have guests is some psychopath shit.
Like how hard do you have to hate your family to put 4 reasonable sized houses of distance between you? Normal people have a finished basement and a pool table or a garage for this.
at least they have good taste. rich people typically have really shitty taste and buy a bunch of gaudy shit for their houses.
Yeah at least the windows match, the roof is the same material, and there aren't these weird ass protrusions in the wrong places.
My first summer out of high school, I worked construction. You have no idea how many pet peeves I picked up working on a doctor's house. It was supervised by his new wife that was only a few years older than me, but half his age.
Those protrusions are always because they want specific rooms to have specific dimensions. So you get the floorplan all drawn out then have to find out how to put a roof on it, which is all ass backwards
Mild, tbh.
Not even twice the size of a typical exurban family home. If it were some random moderately rich fuck's house instead of Obama's, the land itself would be worth more than the construction.
Weird post ngl