Some People Live in Irony Towers

I'd call it ludicrous excess.

When I think that the taxi driver that took me home last time did a double take, and said my home was HUGE, and then realize that THAT home is over 20 times as tall, YIKES! It is probably wider and deeper ALSO! It HAS to be to support that massive height.

I wish they said how many square feet it was! BTW this is not the ONLY one! They also built one that is half the size for the rest of his family!

Steve

What compounds the almost vicious opulence of it to me, is the fact that it is built in a city like Mumbai - Dharavi: After Orangi, the largest slum in Asia is Dharavi in Mumbai. About one million people reside on just one square mile of space that was formerly a mangrove swamp. People became flocking to the area as the tanning and textile industries boomed and Dharavi's population density is now 11 times higher than that of the city that encompasses it.

"A neighborhood smack in the heart of Mumbai, it retains the emotional and historical pull of a subcontinental Harlem -- a square-mile center of all things, geographically, psychologically, spiritually," National Geographic said in a recent article. "Its location has also made it hot real estate in Mumbai, a city that epitomizes India's hopes of becoming an economic rival to China."

The house has sparked some controversy, with anti-poverty campaigners underlining the contrast between the luxury of the house and the plight of those who live in Mumbai's slums, which house about half of the city's 18 million people.
(I cannot substantiate 9 million people living in slums in Mumbai - that seems extremely high to me, as the largest slum in the world is said to be in Mexico -
(Neza-Chalco-Itza is said to be the largest slum in the world with roughly "only" four million people.)

It astounds me what some people think of as chump change for entertainment.

That thing is right in the middle of a freaking city? What the heck kind of dementia would cause someone who can afford a house like that to buy something right in the middle of a freaking city?

If I had a freaking bil to spend on a home -- it would have at least 10,000 acres attached to it.

I say they built it in that location exactly to flaunt their wealth. Absolutely self-serving and insensitive. It may serve to pump up their own self worth, but to the rest of the world, it just makes them look like idiots.

GT
p.s. I'm with Sal. If I was going to build a new home and I had the money, I would do it on a secluded piece of land.

It's a well known fact, at least in the US, that bulding in an area with homes of significantly lower value lowers the value of all property.

You do NOT want to do that. And they generally price by looking for comps. There are NO comps! That building has floors of various heights, so it would fail EVEN for many businesses. I hope they are happy living in a BAD area with a place that may collapse because of a bad foundation, and facilities may break down and neighbors may hate them. YIKES!

Steve

I agree - having a maid or a lawn guy is one thing, but having a whole staff of people running around your private home would get very annoying very rapidly. At that point, you may as well live in a hotel.

Does this guy have a young son?

I see a modern day Bollywood version of "The Prince and The Pauper" coming on...the little boy trapped in his ivory tower, looking at the boys having fun playing soccer in the slum below...and yearns to trade places...or invite them over to play in his new indoor soccer arena :rolleyes: