Hotel New Hampshire.

[tyggerjai]

I think we need to buy a hotel in the city somewhere. We like seeing people, when we're in the mood, but we don't always like leaving the house. So I think we need to live in a big hotel, with all our friends, so we can stay home and still be social. Except when we just lock the doors to our floor and curl up in bed with a good book. And room service. Mmmmm, room service. There's a building on Smith St that would be perfect for this - all I need to do now is win $30 million in tattslotto. Suppose I should start buying tickets...

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[meleah.livejournal.com]

Mmm, that is precisely what I loved about Iban longhouses in Borneo. Its communal living, but not. The houses can be really long, the one I visited was 'only' 50 doors long.. there's a really long open balcony, an enclosed balcony beyond that (the 'ruai'), onto which everyone's 'front door' opens, and where people sit drinking tuak (like sake but more potent), weaving mats and cloth, etc.. So there's a private family house behind it, with kitchen, bedrooms, lounge area, etc., but everyone else is still sort of under the same roof. Brilliant. Privacy, and community!

'course, only the 'Hilton Longhouse Resort' just down the road has room service..:)

..and incidentally there's no statistically significant difference in your chances of winning tattlotto whether you buy a ticket or not. You have just as much chance of stumbling accross the winning ticket somewhere in your travels as you have of buying it. So save your money!

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[p-cat.livejournal.com]

That lotto statistic is one of my favourite things :)

But I'll save my anti-gambling rant for another forum.

The longhouse idea sounds lovely, although still a little close for my tastes. I need to be able to genuinely hide! Perhaps if I was brought up like that, though, I wouldn't be so social-phobic :)

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[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me that 10 people, with, say, 200,000 each, could probably do this. You'd probably want 2 people per floor - either a couple, or a dividing wall. One communal space downstairs - communal kitchen probably not so good. You could rent out one floor and use the income to support a live-in cook/room service person.

The more I think about it, the more tempted I am to look into it, but it'd have to be the right 10 people, of course...

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[p-cat.livejournal.com]

I'm sure punctured_lung would want to run a club in it :)

It sounds like a commercial-scale version of the almost-cult arrangement a friend from uni lives in. A group of very close friends who've lived together for years bought a massive house in Macleod (indoor pool, tennis court) - depending on their means and the size of their space, each put in a different amount of money (her and her partner have a 'wing', with a bedroom, a study and a bathroom - I think they put in $100K or $200K, I can't remember).

I think I'd be more keen to live in the same street as that sort of arrangement, rather than in the same building. I'm too much of a domestic fascist!

You could set it up like serviced apartments but bigger, if you had a floor per couple/ two people sharing. Self-contained would be good, but with a big communal hang-out space (ha - it could be like 'Cheers'!) downstairs.

I wish we had a house deposit ... better get a damn job first, shouldn't I? :)

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[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

Same street would be good - bunnikins used to live in a "commune" that was basically several families in three adjoining houses.
That's probably ideal in Melbourne, buy a row of terraces and knock a door through on the ground floor of each.

Mmmm.

Very tempting.

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[fraerie.livejournal.com]

I had an aunt and uncle do this in Fitzroy, they had 3 terrace houses in a row, and the stables and another bilding which were off a back lane.

They used to do communal meals and the whole thing.

I remember staying with them once, and kept getting woken up by the Hari Krishna commune on the other side of the garden wall.

They then went off to be missionaries in Tonga while their children went off to join the corporate rat race.

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[p-cat.livejournal.com]

That does sound good.

I'm extremely 'clucky' for a house and a dog at the moment.

Nesting!

I'm such a pathetic earth mother ...

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[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

Yup.
And the thought of finding a few friends and doing the "almost communal" thing has crossed my mind, and it tends to increase buiying power non-linearly.

Yeah, nesting. Megan and I have had such a good time over the last week with both flatmates away.

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[p-cat.livejournal.com]

Not matter how lovely the people one lives with, the share housing thing definitely has its limits (not to mention its ugly side). I don't think I could do it again. If nothing else, I'm too much of a control freak :)

Add that to the list of why people would not want to have me in their commune ;)

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[meleah.livejournal.com]

I remember also reading about a group that had rennovated an old school building from the kennett era of closures. It looked like it worked really well, but in that case I think it was one of those quite extended families - you know, divorced/separated partners, their kids, their new partners, their kids, etc. etc., with everyone still on amazingly good terms..

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[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

Fucking hippies.
But yeah - like that, but with no kids.

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[sly-girl.livejournal.com]

No kids? :(

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[fraerie.livejournal.com]

elindal keeps talking about us buying s omewhere that could be used a convention venue, rent it out during the week for people to run training courses. HAve it as an open house for RPG gaming on weekends, and 'hire' it to the gaming community at virtually nothing to run gaming cons a couple of times per year.

The only trick would be finding the capital for buying it in the first place.

Funny how we have similar fantasies...

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[longi.livejournal.com]

As you know, I want really interested in this idea...

Until 24 hours ago. I have rediscovered the sticks. I'm off to the country as soon as the place I have my eye on goes on the market.
10 acres. 4 bedroom house. Swimming pool. Tiny town with a general store and a pub and where nobody blinks an eye if you fire a shotgun from your back door.... and all for under $300,000.

Good luck with city commune things. :)

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[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

Exactly.
Communal living with options.

That's the kind of thing we need.

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[sly-girl.livejournal.com]

You have just as much chance of stumbling accross the winning
ticket somewhere in your travels as you have of buying it.

I have heard this before. It sounds like bollocks. On personal
experience alone, I can name several people who have won small amounts
of money on various lotteries. I cannot name a single person who has
ever found any ticket, winning or not, just lying in the
street. Taking it as a statistical approach - nup, still doesn't work.
The chance of someone losing the ticket, along with the chance of
someone finding it once it has been lost, along with the chance of it
then being the winning ticket is just way, way
smaller than the one in whatever million of buying the thing.

I would like to see anyone actually attempt to back that claim up.
Perhaps they could start by interviewing every single lottery winner
and asking them if they bought their ticket or found it. I'd make bets
on what the answers would be.

[kitling.livejournal.com]

I'd need a good kitchen :) and garden