"Smallish" his Omaha house is about triple the size of the average modern American home, and he bought it in 1958 when homes were much smaller than today!
Re:Coffee in a Can
by socrates137 on Sunday September 10, 2023 @08:22AM
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I’d never heard this about Warren Buffet and so looked it up out of curiosity. I’m going to be honest, I hesitate to call it “smallish” for the average American (around 6500 sq ft). But I’ll admit it’s smaller and more modest than most homes owned by billionaires. At least according to my brief search, it’s the only house he owns, too.
He's remodeled it many times and put on additions (I think).
Re:Coffee in a Can
by laundryfolding on Sunday September 10, 2023 @08:55AM
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> Warren Buffet still lives in the same smallish house he bought in the 60s.
50s, not 60s. And it's a bad counterexample. Warren Buffett is 93 years old. (Or to put it another way, Warren Buffett is old enough to have bought a house in the 50s. I'm discussing the differences between then and now: people who _might_ be 50, but definitely weren't alive in the 50s, let alone buying a house.)
The CEO of Ikea famously uses both sides of each sheet of paper on his desk.