I'm actually torn because in Brazil almost everyone that can would choose to live in a condo, due to security. The downside is that you need to follow a bunch of rules and get much less square m2, and likely worse locations... but you get into some kind of "social network" (depending on the house price) and your kid can walk to the neighbors by himself.
A small (not tiny) apartment with a tiny (that yes) garden/outdoor space in Tokyo. Murakami describes something similar in “The Wind Up Bird Chronicle” [0]. I want a small kitchen corner and a spacious and luminous living room for reading and listening to music. As minimal as possible.
I love how this response started with a very pragmatic checklist and then quickly turned to some very specific and personal wishes. What would you be doing with that forklift and/or pallet jack now that the house was paid off?
You need to be able to move stuff around in a machine shop. I'd make gears and things for fun. The last job I had was very satisfying, but the pay and commute sucked. Doing it for funsies in my own shop would be awesome.
I'd start with my current harbor freight lathe and work my way up to building a cnc tool cutter and then gear hobbing, shaping, skiving, machines, all open source. I've got ideas on how to skive straight bevel gears, which is currently impossible because the pitch varies across the tooth.
Then on to photolithography, atomic force microscopy and eventually high vacuum systems.
I'm actually torn because in Brazil almost everyone that can would choose to live in a condo, due to security. The downside is that you need to follow a bunch of rules and get much less square m2, and likely worse locations... but you get into some kind of "social network" (depending on the house price) and your kid can walk to the neighbors by himself.
A small (not tiny) apartment with a tiny (that yes) garden/outdoor space in Tokyo. Murakami describes something similar in “The Wind Up Bird Chronicle” [0]. I want a small kitchen corner and a spacious and luminous living room for reading and listening to music. As minimal as possible.
[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11275.The_Wind_Up_Bird_C...
My dream home would be one that is fully paid for that my family liked.
It would have a separate machine shop with 3 phase power and a floor thick enough for a forklift or pallet jack.
I love how this response started with a very pragmatic checklist and then quickly turned to some very specific and personal wishes. What would you be doing with that forklift and/or pallet jack now that the house was paid off?
You need to be able to move stuff around in a machine shop. I'd make gears and things for fun. The last job I had was very satisfying, but the pay and commute sucked. Doing it for funsies in my own shop would be awesome.
I'd start with my current harbor freight lathe and work my way up to building a cnc tool cutter and then gear hobbing, shaping, skiving, machines, all open source. I've got ideas on how to skive straight bevel gears, which is currently impossible because the pitch varies across the tooth.
Then on to photolithography, atomic force microscopy and eventually high vacuum systems.
Probably something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_UHTgGFTX8
But in Hudson Valley New York instead of Newcastle Australia.
I didn't watch the entire video, but from what I saw by scanning the first couple minutes, it looks quite similar to the house in Ex Machina.
It does look that way but the house in Ex Machina is a Norwegian resort: https://juvet.com/en/
What do I have to do to have that kind of money. Damn. A boy can dream.
3 miles from anything that makes any noise or pollution - roads, neighbours etc.