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Elon Musk Lives in a Prefab Tiny Home That He Doesn’t Even Own, a Boxabl Casita

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Re: Elon Musk Lives in a Prefab Tiny Home That He Doesn’t Even Own, a Boxabl Casita

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Post by tw04 »

Nothing in the article says he lives there full time. I'm willing to bet he has long term rentals and just sold off all his property in a hot market with plans to re-buy when things cool off.

I know several non-wealthy people who just did the same thing with their houses.

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Post by carbonatedmilk »

Love the idea of pre-fab, but this thing is just charmless.

Fake-wood plastic floors

Fake-wood MDF cabinetry, with superfluous detailing

Plastic benchtops

Horrible overhead lighting layout.

The 'LCD television-as-wall-divider' is the cherry on top of this nightmare.

The problem isn't simply that they've chosen cheap, poor-substitute materials, the whole thing has been thrown together with no sense of design or cohesion.

Good design costs almost nothing - Contrast it with this Australian modular / pre-fab: https://www.dwell.com/article/wattle-bank-tiny-shipping-cont...

It also uses inexpensive materials (Untreated plywood for the interiors, shipping containers for the structure), but it's thoughtfully designed and quite beautiful.

Re: Elon Musk Lives in a Prefab Tiny Home That He Doesn’t Even Own, a Boxabl Casita

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Post by captainmuon »

smt88 wrote: post #2

One wonders how he is a functioning partner to Grimes and/or father to his 7 children when he lives the life of an eccentric bachelor...

Exactly. I would assume one reason for living alone is because he alienated a lot of people close to him. I think it's quite tragic.

The other reason is that he could be "broke", as in he has no cash. All of his wealth is in stock of Tesla, SpaceX,... and he cannot sell any of that without loosing control of the companies or pluging the stock price. I think that's also why he sold all his real estate some time ago.

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Post by ilaksh »

smt88 wrote: post #2

One wonders how he is a functioning partner to Grimes and/or father to his 7 children when he lives the life of an eccentric bachelor...

I am guessing that it's something like, the wife and exes already have houses, he visits them there, he is really just using that place as a way to eliminate his commute.

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Post by hulitu »

carbonatedmilk wrote: post #5

Love the idea of pre-fab, but this thing is just charmless. Fake-wood plastic floors Fake-wood MDF cabinetry, with superfluous detailing Plastic benchtops Horrible overhead lighting layout. The 'LCD television-as-wall-divider' is the cherry on top of this nightmare. The problem isn't simply that they've chosen cheap, poor-substitute materials, the whole thing has been thrown together with no sense of design or cohesi…

Pre fab?

We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out.

Re: Elon Musk Lives in a Prefab Tiny Home That He Doesn’t Even Own, a Boxabl Casita

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Post by smt88 »

ilaksh wrote: post #7
smt88 wrote: post #2

One wonders how he is a functioning partner to Grimes and/or father to his 7 children when he lives the life of an eccentric bachelor...

I am guessing that it's something like, the wife and exes already have houses, he visits them there, he is really just using that place as a way to eliminate his commute.

You're probably right, which is why articles like this feel like gullible people believing Musk's incessant image-building.
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