With all my world travel I have spent time in just four of these cities - London, Paris, Geneva, Monaco. London and Paris are fascinating cities but, for me, too big and noisy to be my residence. All the dog shit on Paris sidewalks is stomach-turning. Geneva is beautiful but sterile. Monaco is full of a loathsome breed of people called eurotrash; they make my skin crawl with revulsion.
For a few years I owned a small place 100km down the Cote d'Azur from Monaco in Saint-Raphael. That was a sweet place to spend winters. That area of France has long been the preferred playground of the super-rich, particularly the area around Cap d'Antibes. Go to Google and check out Villa Leopolda or Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild. Villa Leopolda is purported to be the world's most expensive house.
For me, I am happily content now with my big old house at Rancho farmerart in rural central Alberta. If I were to sell my quarter section of land complete with house and out buildings I would be lucky to get $500K-$600K. Put my house and 60 hectares of land (160 acres) on Cap d'Antibes; you would be looking at a value considerably over 1,000,000,000 - euros not dollars!
As we all know the real estate game is location, location, location.
I love Paris, but it's way too expensive. Not just real estate. Everything costs 2 or 3 times what is does in US. The only bargain is the delicious bread.
I've spent at least a week in each of those cities, except Monaco where I just spent one night and was told I wasn't dressed well enough to enter the casino. I could easily live in Paris or Sydney, the others not so much.
Duo, I'm with you 100% on China. Thanks for making my eyeballs bleed with that Dschinghis Khan. I had to look them up. They're German, so you can't really blame Moscow on them.
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last commentInteresting, even a few surprises. Regardless of price I'd really only want to live in one of them.
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The jestie-girl spaketh, thus: "Regardless of price I'd really only want to live in one of them."
Sorry, jestie. But get real. You ain't pulling that one off your janitor's salary.
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I would never want to live in any of those places for the following reasons:
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by worse I meant worst
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With all my world travel I have spent time in just four of these cities - London, Paris, Geneva, Monaco. London and Paris are fascinating cities but, for me, too big and noisy to be my residence. All the dog shit on Paris sidewalks is stomach-turning. Geneva is beautiful but sterile. Monaco is full of a loathsome breed of people called eurotrash; they make my skin crawl with revulsion.
For a few years I owned a small place 100km down the Cote d'Azur from Monaco in Saint-Raphael. That was a sweet place to spend winters. That area of France has long been the preferred playground of the super-rich, particularly the area around Cap d'Antibes. Go to Google and check out Villa Leopolda or Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild. Villa Leopolda is purported to be the world's most expensive house.
For me, I am happily content now with my big old house at Rancho farmerart in rural central Alberta. If I were to sell my quarter section of land complete with house and out buildings I would be lucky to get $500K-$600K. Put my house and 60 hectares of land (160 acres) on Cap d'Antibes; you would be looking at a value considerably over 1,000,000,000 - euros not dollars!
As we all know the real estate game is location, location, location.
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I love Paris, but it's way too expensive. Not just real estate. Everything costs 2 or 3 times what is does in US. The only bargain is the delicious bread.
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I've spent at least a week in each of those cities, except Monaco where I just spent one night and was told I wasn't dressed well enough to enter the casino. I could easily live in Paris or Sydney, the others not so much.
Duo, I'm with you 100% on China. Thanks for making my eyeballs bleed with that Dschinghis Khan. I had to look them up. They're German, so you can't really blame Moscow on them.
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I agree with Farmerart, Cities are nice places to visit but I would not want to live there.
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@Ermita_Nights for the rest of your life you're going to recall that video anytime that you hear the word "Moscow".
@Che When you see a shitty booty whale you'll know. That video was awesome and it made me want to listen to Husker Du.
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@duomax, Out of curiosity what's your preference for Brisbane over Sydney?
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Duo: Damn you. I spent the entire day at work with that song stuck in my head.
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@che I was, but now I'm a good-looking honey blonde stripper ;)
@erm HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@jester214 I just liked the vibe better
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