Quote from: aesma on Today at 10:16:58 PM

Quote from: Biodom on Today at 09:00:04 PM

40000sq ft? (3500 m²)?
That's a palace.
I don't need a palace, i would rather have several smaller houses or even apts in cool places with either great weather or view.
Maybe Paris is good re weather, I never been. Weather and some "nature" like sea or lake or a large river, woods nearby are a must.
So far, choices like Hawaii, British Columbia, some places in CA, maybe Colorado are popping up. I used to like NY, not sure how it is now, though.
There are some great places in Europe too, but i would have to learn italian, spanish or portuguese to be there for longer time periods.

you misunderstood, I was only talking about the plot of land. Like you can exit your house and walk a bit and you're still on your property. I don't need a huge house, although ideally some of the things I want take some space, like a big garage for nice cars, and a home cinema, but that can always be added later, if the plot of land is big enough. A pool, too. An uncle of mine has a big house (1500m²) and his younger wife spends her days cleaning... He used to own a castle near here, similar to this one (don't want to be IDed if I show the real one) : https://www.bellesdemeures.com/en/listings/sale/tt-2-tb-13-pl-26066/151598835/ The castle was of course impressive, but my memories (I was a kid) are all about the large park, with a pond, a river, a forest and even large game animals, all in the middle of Paris suburbs, it was great. Nowadays it's probably worth a literal fortune, but at the time my uncle couldn't keep up with the maintenance, it was crazy expensive. In fact in France you can buy similar castles all over the place with comparatively low prices for this reason, the only ones that are worth a lot are those with a great location.

Weather here is not great but not horrible, thanks to the Gulf Stream it doesn't get too cold nor too hot like in NY. I would definitely like to spend the winter elsewhere, a bit too much rain, and too long. That's more long term goal (fuck you goals...). In fact on top of the weather what bums me in winter is the short daylight, so either I move closer to the equator (thinking about French Polynesia or Vietnam) or I live in two places (summer in the Northern Hemisphere, winter in the Southern Hemisphere).

I have Italian roots and family there, plenty of good things to say about it, but the future of the country is worrying me, people are older and older and the young aren't making babies, it's depressing. Italian would be easy to learn for me.

yea, got it, thanks.

Lately, I start to consider the possibility that bitcoin will jerk us around for another 10 years and then all these ideas would be for naught (at least, for me).
In this unfortunate hypothetical, bitcoin's 2010-2017 period is like 1971-1980 period in gold, which was followed by a 20year bear market.
Like almost everyone, I am hoping for an additional bull in our secular uptrend to make an ultimate top at 150-300K before the long secular bear, predicted by quite a few, including masterluc. However, I consider the possibility that 2017 was a top as being a non-zero probability. To me, we are still nominally in the bear market.

Yes, the masses of money that were printed are impressive, but, paradoxically, this does not prove that this money "has" to go into bitcoin and in fact, most of it went into 5 top stocks plus Tesla instead. Markets are very complex. Like today, inflation was unleashed, but gold and btc said... "meh" collectively. I guess, because it was all pre-announced.