Stuff you want to own when you're rich

[Narz]

I want to buy 30 or 40 Earthships, one for me & the rest for people I really like.

I will help build them all myself too no matter how rich I get.

 

[bhavv]

I want to buy 30 or 40 Earthships, one for me & the rest for people I really like.

I will help build them all myself too no matter how rich I get.

Ooooh oooooh pick me! Pick me!

 

[Wolfbeckett]

I want to buy 30 or 40 Earthships, one for me & the rest for people I really like.

I will help build them all myself too no matter how rich I get.

2 questions.

1.) Do those things have Internet access?

2.) Do I have to become a full on granola eating, earth shoe wearing, hemp loving, VW van driving vegan hippy to live in one of these or can I still eat a steak from time to time?

 

[Snerk]

Now I want an Earthship too.

 

[downtown]

I would totally buy a professional sports team

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I would totally buy a professional sports team

I recommend a minor league team in a small town market. If you bring the NFL to Los Angeles you are a celebrity for a day. If you bring professional sports of any kind to Podunk, the citizens of Podunk will worship you as a god.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Why not buy an entire town and then rename it to your qualms! Titsville is a great name.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I would own almost nothing. A phone, a laptop, my passport, one backpack for everyday clothing and a toothbrush. I've lived that way for weeks at a time before anyway, and I'm poor as dirt. I only ever come back home because I run out of money. If I didn't need to live somewhere to hold down a job to afford the stuff I want to do - and most employers don't like you disappearing for a year - I would travel a lot, basically all the time.

I would go wherever I wanted to be, for whatever reason. Right now, I would have just spent a month in Belgium and the Netherlands to see the bicentenary of Waterloo, then probably a few days in Paris seeing an old friend. Today or tomorrow, I'd be off to London to catch a matchday or two of Wimbledon. Then to Vancouver for the Women's World Cup final next weekend, zip up to Alaska to visit another old friend for a couple days, then down to San Diego for Comic Con a week after that. I'd catch my breath somewhere that isn't too hot for 6 weeks, maybe San Francisco or Montreal, then head back to London mid-September for the Rugby World Cup.

If I needed new clothes, or something for an event or a climate change, I would just buy them on the spot, then donate them to charity when I move on. If I wanted to drive somewhere, I would buy a car, then sell it or give it away. Mostly I would just hire a car, since I would only ever drive if I actually felt like driving, which in a lot of cities would be never. Locals do it better, anyway.




Link to video.

 

[Bootstoots]

A swimming pool full of heavy water, partly for effort-free swimming and partly for unauthorized nuclear experiments.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I would own almost nothing. A phone, a laptop, my passport, one backpack for everyday clothing and a toothbrush. I've lived that way for weeks at a time before anyway, and I'm poor as dirt. I only ever come back home because I run out of money. If I didn't need to live somewhere to hold down a job to afford the stuff I want to do - and most employers don't like you disappearing for a year - I would travel a lot, basically all the time.

I would go wherever I wanted to be, for whatever reason. Right now, I would have just spent a month in Belgium and the Netherlands to see the bicentenary of Waterloo, then probably a few days in Paris seeing an old friend. Today or tomorrow, I'd be off to London to catch a matchday or two of Wimbledon. Then to Vancouver for the Women's World Cup final next weekend, zip up to Alaska to visit another old friend for a couple days, then down to San Diego for Comic Con a week after that. I'd catch my breath somewhere that isn't too hot for 6 weeks, maybe San Francisco or Montreal, then head back to London mid-September for the Rugby World Cup.

If I needed new clothes, or something for an event or a climate change, I would just buy them on the spot, then donate them to charity when I move on. If I wanted to drive somewhere, I would buy a car, then sell it or give it away. Mostly I would just hire a car, since I would only ever drive if I actually felt like driving, which in a lot of cities would be never. Locals do it better, anyway.

Having a job does not necessarily have to dictate your lifestyle. I know a guy who couchsurfs sometimes and mostly lives in a park, and commutes to work on a skateboard. He's been employed for years, pretty much strictly because he likes his work.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Having a job does not necessarily have to dictate your lifestyle. I know a guy who couchsurfs sometimes and mostly lives in a park, and commutes to work on a skateboard. He's been employed for years, pretty much strictly because he likes his work.

I used to know a guy whose work was 90% virtual. He lived in Boston for a while, then moved to Paris for a year, then to Taipei for a year, then to San Francisco. He'd have to travel to meetings for his job a few times a year, but that was paid for by his employer anyway, since they were work-related. So yeah, it can be done.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I used to know a guy whose work was 90% virtual. He lived in Boston for a while, then moved to Paris for a year, then to Taipei for a year, then to San Francisco. He'd have to travel to meetings for his job a few times a year, but that was paid for by his employer anyway, since they were work-related. So yeah, it can be done.

The guy I know only likes his work because he works with his hands. I'm pretty sure that if his work were virtual he would blow it off and just play X3.

 

[Lohrenswald]

CivFanatics.

That could actually be pretty neat

 

[civvver]

I want a lego room, like the one from the lego movie but nicer (ie not on makeshift tables in a basement). And I'd have the best of both worlds, a whole landscape of scenes and stuff built just to look at like the dad has, and I've have a totally free, build whatever you want area. Just mountains and mountains of legos.


A pro recording studio in my house would be sweet, as would a bowling alley.


Open a brewery and learn how to make amazing brews + hire some master brewers.


I also think I'd like to start my own video game company, kinda like how Curt Schilling did and make Kingdoms of Amalur, but hopefully our's would be a bit more successful.

I would totally buy a professional sports team

That would be sweet as well. NBA team for sure.

 

[McMonkey]

One thing I have always wanted to do is employ a team of programmers and creative bods to work on Civ2 scenarios for me. I have so many ideas I would like to make but don't have the time, energy or skill to realise. A way to indulge my interests, employ some people to do fun stuff and to give back to a community that has given me so much pleasure. And a harem.

 

[illram]

2 questions.

1.) Do those things have Internet access?

2.) Do I have to become a full on granola eating, earth shoe wearing, hemp loving, VW van driving vegan hippy to live in one of these or can I still eat a steak from time to time?

Seems like you can make it as luxurious as you want. Only limitation on meat eating would be whether you have your own livestock and if not how often you can get to the supermarket, as these things seem to be very very far off the grid. The Alberta one on the website for instance is 5 hours from anywhere. So I'd probably build it near a population center, but secluded enough to still enjoy my off the grid-ness.

My main question would be water use. I'd want a well, not recycled poo water.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Seems like you can make it as luxurious as you want. Only limitation on meat eating would be whether you have your own livestock and if not how often you can get to the supermarket, as these things seem to be very very far off the grid. The Alberta one on the website for instance is 5 hours from anywhere. So I'd probably build it near a population center, but secluded enough to still enjoy my off the grid-ness.

My main question would be water use. I'd want a well, not recycled poo water.

What makes you think the water from a well isn't recycled poo-water? Dirt may be natural, but it is still just a filter.

 

[El_Machinae]

I want my Earthship to be able to fly in space.

 

[Narz]

2 questions.

1.) Do those things have Internet access?

Sure why not?

2.) Do I have to become a full on granola eating, earth shoe wearing, hemp loving, VW van driving vegan hippy to live in one of these or can I still eat a steak from time to time?

You can still eat meat, here's a pic of someone invited eating meat : http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=13882118#post13882118

A swimming pool full of heavy water, partly for effort-free swimming and partly for unauthorized nuclear experiments.

I want a swimming pool full of this stuff.


Link to video.

 

[illram]

What makes you think the water from a well isn't recycled poo-water? Dirt may be natural, but it is still just a filter.

I thought if it's tapping into the local aquifier then it's just Earth-poo water not "this was literally just doo-doo last week" water?

I mean assuming the local groundwater is not messed up, which is probably true in a lot of places. I would definitely agree that local groundwater health would be a big consideration for wherever I set up my hippy-lair.