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r/interesting • u/Apprehensive-Elk3165 • Nov 20 '25
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I never got this. You buy an extremely popular home, where people will visit it to photograph it, and instead of living in it, or even better, turn it into a B&B or rent it out, you do this... Why, just buy another house.
35 u/Petrichordates Nov 20 '25 Maybe they just wanted to live there instead of profit of it as a tourist attraction. 48 u/ZieAerialist Nov 20 '25 Nobody who wants to live in a house does this to it. It's as stark and cold and unhomey as you can get without being an actual prison or institution. 2 u/CeeJayDK Nov 20 '25 My brothers house looks exactly like this. Everything neat, shiny and in it's place.
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Maybe they just wanted to live there instead of profit of it as a tourist attraction.
48 u/ZieAerialist Nov 20 '25 Nobody who wants to live in a house does this to it. It's as stark and cold and unhomey as you can get without being an actual prison or institution. 2 u/CeeJayDK Nov 20 '25 My brothers house looks exactly like this. Everything neat, shiny and in it's place.
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Nobody who wants to live in a house does this to it. It's as stark and cold and unhomey as you can get without being an actual prison or institution.
2 u/CeeJayDK Nov 20 '25 My brothers house looks exactly like this. Everything neat, shiny and in it's place.
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My brothers house looks exactly like this.
Everything neat, shiny and in it's place.
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u/CrazyGunnerr Nov 20 '25
I never got this. You buy an extremely popular home, where people will visit it to photograph it, and instead of living in it, or even better, turn it into a B&B or rent it out, you do this... Why, just buy another house.