Driving on a road .5 miles off my beaten path, i went touring on the side road and drove past a house that had to be at least 3 million dollars in price. It was ridiculous. But then I got to thinking, it isn't the structure that's so obscene in cost, it's how few people live in that structure that counts. I did some simple math, if you built a structure for 8000 homes and charged 200000 a piece, that leaves you 1.6 billion dollars to build a Versailles for 8000 families. Do you think something like this could be done today? is 8000 apartments in one building just too many? if we did 5000, that still leaves us with a billion dollars.
The whole point of this is that if you can take an expensive thing, like maintaining French gardens, but distribute the cost among a large number of people, that cost is no longer excessive. You could have snazzy stuff in the halls and it wouldn't cost the owners that much. Like $200 a month association dues for 8000 people would well maintain that landscape and garbage and utilities.
What do you think of mega residential buildings like this, would they fly or no? I think it would just be soooo awesome to live in a palace like that. Even if it was $250000 instead of $200000 per housing unit. I'd be way cooler than some standard suburban home, which is what $250000 could buy you in CO Springs.
Edit: this would be Versailles v2.
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