The house he bought at 28 is 3500 square feet in a very very nice neighborhood and was worth $1.2 million a few years ago. It's humble by billionaire standards, not by average person standards. He never needed to size-up because of children, or size-down because of a bad economy, he was already set for both space and finances. Let's not create a moralistic myth out of his lack of need.

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g947o 16 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

If you compare that with Zuckerberg, Buffett is a saint without question.

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nonethewiser 32 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Let's not create a moralistic myth out of his lack of need.

That's the moral though. He didn't need it so he didn't do it. Whereas so many others with so much less do so much more.

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jonemi an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For reference, this is the house: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett#/media/File:Dun...

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TehCorwiz an hour ago | parent [-]

That's a very misleading photo. An aerial view shows the multiple large buildings much better. https://presidenthouse.org/entry-18

	▲	jonemi an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That's a much better set of photos. It also confirms he was content with a two-car garage. It also stands in contrast to the other celebrities and business leaders featured on that site. If they had a ranking ordered by size/value ascending, I wonder what number he would be. I still suspect it'd be near the top.

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WaxProlix 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's insanely humble by billionaire standards. Any FAANG SWE over 30 or so in the United States can get that. Contrast with multiple compounds, entire islands, etc.

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rapidfl 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Buffet surely made lots of upgrades and has added plenty of material comforts.

But it is quite possible to be a kind of lazy where even 10-20x current wealth, people would live where they currently live. American neighborhoods are reasonable that way. It is just primary home and they would holiday/vacation wherever.

	▲	tmule 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It is highly unusual for someone to stay put after their net worth increases tenfold. Normally, you would expect an individual to seek out more elite social circles and embrace a significantly more opulent lifestyle. Not having that isn’t a sign of laziness (one can be certain that someone like Warren Buffett lives exactly as he chooses) but rather a reflection of the rare ability to decide that what he has is already enough.

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brcmthrowaway an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Not the daily FAANG SWE injection

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santoshalper 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think it's more that he didn't build a gaudy billionaire mansion, even though he easily could have.