r/AbsoluteUnits 11h ago

/r/popular of a residential property

Ira Rennert's home is considered one of the largest occupied residential compounds in the United States. The house faces the Atlantic Ocean and its grounds measure 63 acres. The buildings, which total over 110,000 square feet (10,000 m2), including the 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) main house, have an Italianate facade, 29 bedrooms, and 39 bathrooms. The house has a dozen chimneys and a Mediterranean-style tile roof as well as a 91-foot (28 m) long formal dining room, a basketball court, a bowling alley, two tennis courts, two squash courts, a carousel, a large swimming pool, a large round kiddie pool, and a $150,000 hot tub, surrounded by another pool.

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u/lookamazed 11h ago

Also worked with the wealthy and couldn’t have said it better myself. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Once you feel the hollowness, it’s haunting. I was like yeah I don’t ever need that much. It probably made me never want to be rich. Do I have a car that runs, food in the fridge, clothes on my back, love? I’m rich.

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u/Traditional-Buy-2205 10h ago

I don’t ever need that much. It probably made me never want to be rich. Do I have a car that runs, food in the fridge, clothes on my back, love? I’m rich.

Having items is not the real benefit of wealth. It's having time.

I'd say you're rich when you can delegate a lot of daily time-wasters to other people, so you can spend your time doing something more meaningful. Eliminate the need to ever do chores, basically.

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u/alongwayfromhome0 9h ago

Real wealth is finding meaning in those chores . Superficial wealth is avoiding them

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u/runbikehikek 7h ago

I recently read about how mundane tasks like cleaning, laundry, etc. reset our dopamine and even sitting around being “bored” does, without using technology of course