The 60-storey house for just one family

[Herman Munster]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=459208&in_page_id=1770

This 60-storey house is for just one family.

India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is planning a palace in the heart of Mumbai with helipad, health club, hanging gardens and six floors of car parking.

His wife, mother and three children will live there with him, looked after by 600 live-in staff.

[valerief]

1. The lives of some people seem so retarded, don't they?

Like they don't even live on the same planet as the rest of us.

[Gabi Hayes]

2. didn't he buy it from Edwards' barber?

[bluerum]

5. Isn't Edwards barber Clintons barber too? eom

[Gabi Hayes]

11. Kerry's, too. And she's....

French!

[KamaAina]

22. No, silly. He bought it from the Edwards themselves.

after he promised to change out all the lightbulbs to compact fluorescents.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. Indeed! nt

[uppityperson]

3. Seems like he is supporting many families.

Sounds like a whole village is living off of him.

[petronius]

17. Yeah, I like this idea. Housing and jobs for 600, and he's not adding

to suburban sprawl. I don't know how it is in India, but in the U.S. at least building up in the cities seems a lot lower-impact than building out in the country...

[cobalt1999]

4. technically it's not just one family

it's 600 people + one family.

[Nikia]

20. That's what I thought too

The question is "What will 600 servants be doing?"
Even with such a large building, is there really enough to keep 600 people employed full time.
Is is possible that either some of the 600 are employed in some kind of business that the family is involved with or that some of them are charitable cases (people who really would not be able to work a normal full time job).

[ikojo]

26. I used to baby sit for a woman who was from

Nigeria. In Nigeria her family was rather well off and had servants. There were drivers who just waited around, just in case a member of the family wanted to go somewhere. They also had someone who drew the bath water for family members.

My jaw dropped when she said there was a hired person to prepare a bath for someone!

Wow!

[kskiska]

30. Prince Charles has a servant to put his toothpaste on his brush.

Dwight Eisenhower had a valet to hold his shorts for him to step into.

The rich are different from you and I.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

6. My God If Only I Had The Money To Do That Someday...

[MADem]

7. And no matter how much money he has, one day, he's still gonna die.

But hey, six hundred servants, six hundred paychecks. Whatever...

[Marr]

8. And that medieval economic structure is the reason our jobs are going there.

[mitchum]

29. Exactly (n/t)

[MichiganVote]

9. Tacky. Looks like the Jetsons building.

[WinkyDink]

10. With that money, I sure as heck wouldn't live in a high-rise in India!

[Turbineguy]

13. Yeah

but that would be outsourcing!

[WinkyDink]

24. How ironic! :)

[burythehatchet]

28. wow

[NoPasaran]

12. Sounds like Michael Dell's house

Which Molly Ivins once described as "Big as a shopping mall but not nearly as tasteful."

[XOKCowboy]

14. ROFL! Gotta love Molly..

She did have a way with words.

[Sequoia]

15. It sure looks ugly to me. Reminds me of some building in The Jetsons.

[XOKCowboy]

18. What is it about big money that makes people crazy??

I guess you have to have big money to know. They really aren't like us are they?

Gawd I'd hope that in all of that extravagant excess his family quarters are on one little corner of one floor of this monster and they have no servants. How can you have any kind of family bonding in that kind of "home"?

I'm truly amazed.

[aikoaiko]

19. Now that is one cool penthouse.....

[acmavm]

21. My disgustometer just exploded and the tacky-ometer just went over the

redline.

Did you catch these reader comments?

<snip>
More power to him. I hope he has it earthquake proof. And also his brother builds one

- Raj, Columbus,OH

It's his money. Let him spend it as he likes, and if if blows up in his face, let him face the responsibility for his decisions. Either way, it's none of my business.

- Lane Lombardia, Stamford, United States

Talk about envy!!! If he wants to spend his money that way so be it and good for him. Who are we to tell him what to do with his money. Good grief. Socialist only want to spend other peoples money and not their own.

- Paul, DC, USA


Friggin' idiots. Something like this being built in a nation with one of the largest populations of people living in poverty, and these numbskulls can only think this far.

Poor America. No wonder we're in trouble.

[Occulus]

23. I wonder what he REALLY has those 600 people doing.

:tinfoilhat:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

25. Jerk stole my idea.

[Blueberry_raspberry]

27. Why build up? Why not buy a large plot and have a real garden?

Who wants to live in a tacky highrise? Buy several acres and build a real garden.

[tammywammy]

31. It's in Mumbai

There's not much space to buy out, you have to go up.