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| ▲ | ronbenton 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| >You can buy a bigger and bigger house car tv stereo whatever, but it will not make you happy. Well that seems like an assumption! Plenty of people are happier with nicer things. I don't think we need to tell people what should make them happy. |
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| ▲ | joquarky 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | That happy feeling only lasts about six weeks. Happiness is unsustainable. However, contentment is an attainable goal. | |
| ▲ | dorfsmay 17 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | But commercialism keeps telling people that only nicer things can make them happy. | |
| ▲ | incanus77 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Sure, but wisdom can be shared about what is less likely to make you happy. |
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| ▲ | brk 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Though Buffet has kept that first house, he also bought several others along the way. |
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| ▲ | cortesoft 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yeah, but if the first house you buy is a two bedroom at 28 when you are single, it isn't bad to buy a bigger house when you have a family and 3 kids. |
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| ▲ | JKCalhoun 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's true (I live in Omaha). He is still in the same house. I didn't grow up here—my wife did. Very early on, when I first visited Omaha, she drove me by his place. After three decades or so in California, I retired and we moved back to her hometown. Buffett is still there. |
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| ▲ | theonething an hour ago | parent [-] | | Like anyone can just drive up to his house? Doesn't seem safe for such a high profile billionaire's residence to be so accessible. | | |
| ▲ | matthewbauer an hour ago | parent [-] | | I went by it a few weeks ago. There's a gate on the driveway, and I assume some kind of security presence. Probably no different than anyone under constant public scrutiny. |
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| ▲ | dilawar an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| "Happiness can't buy me money" -- Some actor |
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| ▲ | inetknght 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > You can buy a bigger and bigger house car tv stereo whatever, but it will not make you happy. Speak for yourself. There are a lot of aspects to being happy, and having to not want for things certainly helps. |
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| ▲ | _heimdall 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | You will never not want for things, no matter how much you have. | |
| ▲ | BuckRogers 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | But you can do that without any money. | | |
| ▲ | Nevermark 26 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > You can buy a bigger and bigger house car tv stereo whatever > But you can do that without any money. Well... Material things can contribute to happiness, or detract. Balancing the things we spend our life on, relative to an understanding of what makes us happy, is going to be an idiosyncratic exercise. Assuming that X won't contribute to the happiness of person Y is some deep projection. There seem to be many kinds of happiness too. Would I remain happy if I lost my house? Yes. I have gone through enough ups and downs to know that. But would I feel as fulfilled? No. I have gone through enough ups and downs to know that. |
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| ▲ | twodave 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is what I’m talking about. You’re assuming a lot about why and how people move. |
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| ▲ | UqWBcuFx6NV4r 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Nowhere did anybody say “moving house for any reason is bad”. Buffet could’ve moved if he wanted to, I presume. So, evidently, he didn’t have any of those ‘other reasons’. What we *can^ say is that he didn’t move, which shows that he didn’t allow lifestyle inflation to extend to his place of residence. |
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| ▲ | KPGv2 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It will if you have had four children after 28yo. |
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| ▲ | dheera an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Meh. If you have the resources, buy whatever makes you happy. If a bigger house makes you happy because you have space for your hobbies and you don't need to fight with your family members for space, buy a bigger house. The whole "money doesn't bring happiness" thing is bullshit unless you are a Buddha. A mansion in Malibu isn't going to make me happy, because I wouldn't know what the hell to do in Malibu. An upgrade from a 2-bedroom to a 4-bedroom home with a garage so I don't have to smell laser cutter fumes anymore and hack a ventilation system out a bedroom window? That very well might. |
