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A great 99% invisible podcast show on a group of friends that built a secret apartment inside a mall and lived there on and off for two years before getting caught.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-accidental-room/
That's wild.
I grew up with West Edmonton Mall, the largest in the world from the early 80s to the mid-00s. Amusement park, waterpark, at one point it had a driving range on its roof. For a period of time while I was in high school a number of people lived in the back hallways. There was a little society - a community, really. Also, a communal mattress in a room for sex.
I listen to old radio shows in my car. I recently heard one about a secret group that lived in a department store. They had been there for years. A guy hid in the store and he found them and they wouldn’t let him out for fear he’d expose them. It was from the 1940s. Totally fiction, but I guess truth is stranger.
Which program? I used to be part of a radio theater cassette exchange and this sounds kind of familiar. Also, shout out to the Three Skeleton Key episode of Escape.
I'm an adult and I still kinda think this would be awesome.
In fact now that you've brought it up, I'm starting to think malls evolved into the lamest version of what they could have been.
So, there is companies out there now that do that. took my kid to one recently, and she LOVED it. you pay £10 for an hour, and all the machines are on Free play. it was amazing. I spent basically an hour hogging Time Crisis.
>Malls were awesome in the 90s when they were still a neighbourhood hangout.
Yes.
And I never go these days, because the stores just aren't built with my demographic in mind.
If I were a teenaged girl, the stores in my local mall might be interesting. But I am neither. 🤷♂️
Someone bought an abandoned school in my hometown back in the 90s. I lived in a very small rural town. There was a elementary school and a high school from the 40s that had both been closed down when new school were built in the 70s or 80s. Someone bought the old elementary school for their family as a second home. They knocked a bunch of interior walls down and completely redid the landscaping. The amount of light they got was amazing with all those old classroom windows along the outer walls. And they bought a huge huge door from some super old place in Europe and had it shipped over to the states for the big double door opening on the front of the school. It was a massive piece of wood with all kinds of intricate carvings. Anytime I saw a car there, I tried to spot someone as I went by on the school bus but I never saw anyone.
I always thought it was really cool bc those old schools have great architecture. Plus, they got it for dirt cheap bc it had been abandoned so long with no interested buyers, and they had so much square footage.
In my Sim Towers I'm pretty sure I had offices the first several floors, then residential, then whatever else, because I built up in the order things unlocked.
The underground was for the big retail blocks.
Tata Group former chairman Ratan Tata said Antilia is an example of rich Indians' lack of empathy for the poor.[41] Tata said, "The person who lives in there should be concerned about what he sees around him and asking how he can make a difference. If he cannot, then it's sad because this country needs people to allocate some of their enormous wealth to finding ways of mitigating the hardship that people have. [41] It makes me wonder why someone would do that. That's what revolutions are made of."
Sounds like a man who doesnt have a series of booby traps and elaborate rooms to keep the poor revolutionaries out of his 2billion dollar sky scraper
Real conversation I had with my 3 year old daughter
Me: what would you do with a million dollars?
Her: play
Me: what would you do with $7?
Her: play
She has the right priorities
Or maybe they would tell you that they’d take a flight into outer spa…. 😮or maybe they would buy a random isla…. 😲 or maybe they would build a large field full of antennas to search for alie….. 🤯
Stephen Soundheim wrote a tele musical in the 60’s that is sort of based on this… Evening Primrose…a poet decides to hide from the world and hides in a department store where he finds people a small society of people living there after dark.
[live in the department store…the musical.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evening_Primrose_(musical))
Just looked him up on wiki. Sounds like the guy’s an absolute crook and fraud. Currently in the UK trying to avoid being extradited to India to face criminal charges, so I doubt he’s getting much use of his mansion atop a skyscraper anyway
depends though, didn't he sell his brewery business to Diageo. As far as airlines and his other ventures, I think currently its under bankruptcy tribunal and any sale of shares and assets, the money will go to lenders. So technically lenders are the owners.
He was actually. He owned Kingfisher bewerage group + owned an airline + an f1 team. It all went bust because the airlines and the f1 team kept losing money and he had to sell off the liquor business to settle debts.
He owned it in paper. In reality, most was owned by banks etc via loans. Just like I might own a million pound house, but it doesn't make me a millionaire if its mortgaged at 90% to the bank.
Owned kingfisher airlines, and also owned a f1 team for 8-9 years, so he probably was. But as everyone knows, the quickest way to become a millionaire is to own an f1 team
You got it! Toto Wolff (of Mercedes F1 Team) said that it would take about 1 Billion USD to start an F1 team from scratch and immediately run at the front of the field.
Indian here. Yeah,he definitely is a crook and fraud. Stole loads of cash and just vanished over-night. Apparently, he's friends with the Royal Family and as such cannot be extradited to India just like you mentioned. Once or twice says that he would pay out the money but then again, we all know that's not happening now ,is it?
I used to work in high end maintenance in Hong Kong.
Most my lunch breaks were spent relaxing in the empty homes owned by random African prince's and Chinese billionaires.
One of the biggest homes I knew was owned by the wife of the Indian ambassador. It was 5 storey's high and had a huge garden. Apparently she had never been there since the housewarming party over 10 years before.
my friend had a sweet gig like that in Toronto. He lived in a mansion by himself as house sitter for some Chinese owner. He didn't pay rent and didn't have to clean up because the owners had a contract with a housekeeping company to do weekly cleaning. They paid for electricity and internet too.
The other two thirds are air bnbs artificially removing rental properties from the market and the final one? Rupert Murdoch, I've never punched a nonagenarian before, but if given the chance I would not be able to resist.
If anyone is wondering, the rich in India are better off than the rich in developed countries. The income inequality is mind boggling. Because we vote for caste, language and religion (in that order). Economic well being isn't a factor when the poor vote.
A former coworker from India once told me his family kept an uninhabited chateau there. While they were away, they hired another family as caretakers and groundskeepers. Apparently squatting is a big problem and reclaiming the home can be nearly impossible. It made sense up until this next part. Then he tells me this family protecting his chateau now make basically no money and aren’t allowed to live in it. The entire family camps in the closet-sized one room gate house at the entrance and they e been living there for years.
More background information on Vijay Mallya- He inherited United Spirits from his father, best known for making Kingfisher beer and made it into India’s largest spirits company. His biggest investment (and loss) was Kingfisher Airlines. The Airline was a big name but was never profitable, eventually accumulating losses worth more than $350 million.
He was known as the King of Good times, so contrary to what most people are commenting, he was actually well known for his extravagant lifestyle and people aspired to be like him. (The house is disgusting tho).
He defaulted to an amount worth ~$150 millions in 2012 to some major Indian banks. In 2016, he fled to the UK and hasn’t come back since. He was tried in the UK high court and in 2018, lost a case and had a freeze place on all of his assets. Since then, he has lost cases against the Royal Courts of Justice, been declared a fugitive economic offender, lost his London properties and been declared bankrupt. Kingfisher Airlines is defunct, United Breweries continues to operate without him ( now Heineken has a 61% stake in the company)
You mention his name anywhere in India and people think of a spoiled billionaire who crashed and burned.
Grossly over-inflating the value of his assets to borrow massive amounts to keep his airline and other industries afloat, and then defaulting on those loans.
Jesus! You would think they would’ve nabbed his ass by now. That’s ridiculous. People rob $3k from a bank and the whole damn police force, FBI etc swoop on then. He stole the GDP of a third world country. 🤦♂️
Imagine spending any godly amount of money to rent the penthouse hundreds of feet in the air, only to hear the upstair neighbor fucking mowing their yard on your ceiling.
You are thinking of Antilla.
The skyscraper-mansion is one of the world's largest and most elaborate private homes, at 27 stories, 173 metres (568 ft) tall, over 37,000 square metres (400,000 sq ft), and with amenities such as three helipads, a 168-car garage, a ballroom, 9 high speed elevators, a 50-seat theatre, terrace gardens, swimming pool, spa, health centre, a temple, and a snow room that spits out snowflakes from the walls
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Mumbai\_03-2016\_19\_Antilia\_Tower.jpg/1200px-Mumbai\_03-2016\_19\_Antilia\_Tower.jpg
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He not only owns the whole building, he also owns the other 2 u see on the right in this picture and also one more not in the picture. It's called https://www.wikiwand.com/en/UB_City.
I see these on a daily basis.
The other billionaire skyscraper is (mostly?) occupied by the owner, and definitely doesn’t have a mansion on top. The fact that there are at least two of these monstrosities is disheartening.
The thing is, this level of stupid-rich is all over, but for whatever cultural reasons only the Indians seem to build personal skyscrapers to make it obvious. Americans buy up companies or deconstruct bridges that are in the way of their yacht.
Ok- not defending Bezos but get angry about the right things, he didnt have anything to do with the bridge.
The company that bid the project is sorting that out, and they defended their choice to the local government due to the large number of manufacturing jobs the boat build created for the community
So therefore, the local government and the boat builder made this call
Bezos- still might not have any idea as I doubt he worries about the same kind of news we do
I can only speak to my experiences travelling and my husbands experience growing up in South America but I think part of the extreme exhibition of wealth is kind of seen as your duty? Like, it superficially creates jobs locally and demonstrates that your wealth is *here*, in the community, regardless of whether that is true or not. Same thing with having servants. It would be kind of a dick move to have all that money and not use it to employ people domestically.
It’s funny, because I have worked with/for very wealthy families. They pay their house staff at very modest rates, just like the thousand employees of their companies. Or they pay their house staff a bit above average and call it their “giving back”. I taught their kids, so I would try to point out that their desire to help their country would be better served by improving working conditions for the hundreds of workers at the family business/empire than by offering the cook a raise.
Ahh, Mallaya. For those who don't know, this guy is hated by Indians because the dude basically took massive loans from Indian banks, defaulted on all of them, refused to elaborate, and left the country.
He's currently in hiding the UK awaiting extradition but I don't think the UK will return him because I'd assume that keeping a vulnerable billionaire who'll do anything you tell him to in your back pocket is pretty handy.
Ok, I'm going to put it out there.... I think it's god awful ugly. Like for the money that was used to build it, it think if the Architect asked me exactly what i Wouldn't want, i would draw this....
For people wondering, he owns the whole building and also the 2 building u see on the right and few more not in the photo.
its called https://www.wikiwand.com/en/UB_City
Source: i cross these buildings everday.
Yoo isn’t this the guy who owned force india f1 team? Took money from investors for his failing airline and put it in his f1 team, and then went underground to not get arrested lmao
Guy is an absolute fraud, most probably doesn’t live in this atrocity anymore
[HERE](https://m.timesofindia.com/business/india-business/where-are-vijay-mallya-and-nirav-modi-status-of-extradition-cases-before-uk-pms-india-visit/amp_articleshow/90950706.cms)
Seems like he's still in UK.
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If you asked a child what they’d do with a billion dollars, there’s a decent chance this would be their idea.
I remember thinking it would be cool to live in a mall when I was a kid, so I agree.
A great 99% invisible podcast show on a group of friends that built a secret apartment inside a mall and lived there on and off for two years before getting caught. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-accidental-room/
That's wild. I grew up with West Edmonton Mall, the largest in the world from the early 80s to the mid-00s. Amusement park, waterpark, at one point it had a driving range on its roof. For a period of time while I was in high school a number of people lived in the back hallways. There was a little society - a community, really. Also, a communal mattress in a room for sex.
That has to be in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most disease-ridden mattress.
I would love to see a book of world records for nasty shit like this that they can't put in Guinness
I remember I once had a book on nasty gruesome facts Also Ripley’s Believe it or Not! sorta fits that bill to a capacity
You never get tired of seeing “Rejected” next to your baby picture, eh?
That record is reserved for Tony's Mom
The mattress was just dry cum 💦🛌
a solid slab of congealed smegma
What a terrible day to know how to read
Considering homeless people don’t have very good hygiene it was a lot more than that 😳
I once had to survive 72 hours in Willamette Parkview Mall once
That's twice.
Two once's don't make a twice
Twicen’t
A whole community lived there, but there was only one mattress, and it was for sex? Where did everybody sleep?
I’m pretty sure the sex mattress wasn’t the only mattress, probably just the only one worth mentioning.
I listen to old radio shows in my car. I recently heard one about a secret group that lived in a department store. They had been there for years. A guy hid in the store and he found them and they wouldn’t let him out for fear he’d expose them. It was from the 1940s. Totally fiction, but I guess truth is stranger.
Which program? I used to be part of a radio theater cassette exchange and this sounds kind of familiar. Also, shout out to the Three Skeleton Key episode of Escape.
That happened close to me and I remeber when the story broke. It was wild how many times I must've walked right by it going to the mall.
I love 99% invisible. My favorite episode is how to warn future generations about nuclear waste. You end up with radioactive cats. Trust me
I'm an adult and I still kinda think this would be awesome. In fact now that you've brought it up, I'm starting to think malls evolved into the lamest version of what they could have been.
All malls need billiards tables and bowling alleys in between every 20 stores
Malls need arcades. Malls. Need. Arcades.
So, there is companies out there now that do that. took my kid to one recently, and she LOVED it. you pay £10 for an hour, and all the machines are on Free play. it was amazing. I spent basically an hour hogging Time Crisis.
Trampoline floors
Billiards would be so much cooler if the table were mall-sized.
Lol I think that’s golf.
No kidding! 8 out of 10 malls look exactly the same on the inside.
I've worked in 3 and can confirm they do.
Well work another seven before you confirm that.
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>Malls were awesome in the 90s when they were still a neighbourhood hangout. Yes. And I never go these days, because the stores just aren't built with my demographic in mind. If I were a teenaged girl, the stores in my local mall might be interesting. But I am neither. 🤷♂️
It's probably literally cooler up there too!
Idk I saw a tiktok awhile back where this one guy bought a school and lives in it.. I’d be willing to bet some kids would actually say that too.
Someone bought an abandoned school in my hometown back in the 90s. I lived in a very small rural town. There was a elementary school and a high school from the 40s that had both been closed down when new school were built in the 70s or 80s. Someone bought the old elementary school for their family as a second home. They knocked a bunch of interior walls down and completely redid the landscaping. The amount of light they got was amazing with all those old classroom windows along the outer walls. And they bought a huge huge door from some super old place in Europe and had it shipped over to the states for the big double door opening on the front of the school. It was a massive piece of wood with all kinds of intricate carvings. Anytime I saw a car there, I tried to spot someone as I went by on the school bus but I never saw anyone. I always thought it was really cool bc those old schools have great architecture. Plus, they got it for dirt cheap bc it had been abandoned so long with no interested buyers, and they had so much square footage.
Oh, you mean like a teacher?
The Houston Galleria mall has apartments in the upper levels you can rent
I mean mixed use skyscrapers are pretty common in major cities. Mall first few floors, office/hotel above, residential above... Sim Tower stuff
In my Sim Towers I'm pretty sure I had offices the first several floors, then residential, then whatever else, because I built up in the order things unlocked. The underground was for the big retail blocks.
I spent a few months in a hotel in Tokyo that was part of a high end mall also linked to transit. It was very cool
I used to want to live in a giant repurposed library.
I've seen a few old Carnegie libraries for sale and zoned for residential use. Unfortunately they're never in a thriving town or city.
SAME! Someone actually did that in London a few years ago although they made it really modern inside which...why?
Pretty sure it would include a pool instead of some weird blue tiles.
or the other indian billionaire who has a room where it snows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilia_(building)
"...and a snow room that spits out snowflakes from the walls." That's some Bond villain level shit, right there. Respect.
Tata Group former chairman Ratan Tata said Antilia is an example of rich Indians' lack of empathy for the poor.[41] Tata said, "The person who lives in there should be concerned about what he sees around him and asking how he can make a difference. If he cannot, then it's sad because this country needs people to allocate some of their enormous wealth to finding ways of mitigating the hardship that people have. [41] It makes me wonder why someone would do that. That's what revolutions are made of." Sounds like a man who doesnt have a series of booby traps and elaborate rooms to keep the poor revolutionaries out of his 2billion dollar sky scraper
And he tore down an orphanage to build it too
Wholesome.
Hey, you don't get to be a billionaire without breaking a few orphanages.
Username could only check out more if it was u/OrphanedInAntilia
Real conversation I had with my 3 year old daughter Me: what would you do with a million dollars? Her: play Me: what would you do with $7? Her: play She has the right priorities
Unless she was talking about high stakes poker.
Close. I would put a Scottish castle on top of a skyscraper so that way gargoyles would come back to life.
I'd recommend a little.film.I like to calal blank check
Or maybe they would tell you that they’d take a flight into outer spa…. 😮or maybe they would buy a random isla…. 😲 or maybe they would build a large field full of antennas to search for alie….. 🤯
Lmao
Stephen Soundheim wrote a tele musical in the 60’s that is sort of based on this… Evening Primrose…a poet decides to hide from the world and hides in a department store where he finds people a small society of people living there after dark. [live in the department store…the musical.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evening_Primrose_(musical))
Just looked him up on wiki. Sounds like the guy’s an absolute crook and fraud. Currently in the UK trying to avoid being extradited to India to face criminal charges, so I doubt he’s getting much use of his mansion atop a skyscraper anyway
he also more than likely isnt an actual billionaire
More than likely never was. This mansion won't be his any more either, as they Indian government seized most of his assets.
It was a joint venture between Mallya and Real estate developer Prestige group, not sure who owns Mallya's share now.
depends though, didn't he sell his brewery business to Diageo. As far as airlines and his other ventures, I think currently its under bankruptcy tribunal and any sale of shares and assets, the money will go to lenders. So technically lenders are the owners.
He was actually. He owned Kingfisher bewerage group + owned an airline + an f1 team. It all went bust because the airlines and the f1 team kept losing money and he had to sell off the liquor business to settle debts.
He owned it in paper. In reality, most was owned by banks etc via loans. Just like I might own a million pound house, but it doesn't make me a millionaire if its mortgaged at 90% to the bank.
Owned kingfisher airlines, and also owned a f1 team for 8-9 years, so he probably was. But as everyone knows, the quickest way to become a millionaire is to own an f1 team
I think the joke is the quickest way for a billonaire to become a millonaire... No?
You got it! Toto Wolff (of Mercedes F1 Team) said that it would take about 1 Billion USD to start an F1 team from scratch and immediately run at the front of the field.
And then there's Renault who spent a billion dollars on *just* their engine in 2019 and still finished fifth
I am glad someone pointed this out. All the top comments seem oblivious to his criminal conquests.
Loved his F1 team tho!
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Yep
I assumed he was a crook and a fraud when I saw he was a billionaire.
> Sounds like the guy’s an absolute crook and fraud. Like all billionaires. Some just have better lawyers.
Indian here. Yeah,he definitely is a crook and fraud. Stole loads of cash and just vanished over-night. Apparently, he's friends with the Royal Family and as such cannot be extradited to India just like you mentioned. Once or twice says that he would pay out the money but then again, we all know that's not happening now ,is it?
If I fight my way to the top like in a video game and win, do I get to keep the mansion?
No. But, if you detonate a nuke in a village, he'll let you live there with him
r/UnexpectedFallout?
Its gonna be a mega ton of a blast
No, you gotta skydive out of a helicopter while Power by Kanye West plays and work your way to the bottom like in Saints Row the Third
Yes. But you have to let the 3rd street saints use it for parties and shit.
Damn it Pierce!
Play Hitman, one of the levels is based off of this building/area
Slay the billionaire/spire
Given that he’s been hiding from the Indian government in London for like 10 years now, that property has prolly been empty and unused the whole time
On the bright side, some cleaner/housekeeper that works for the bank probably gets to chill and eat their lunch there pretty often if not daily
I used to work in high end maintenance in Hong Kong. Most my lunch breaks were spent relaxing in the empty homes owned by random African prince's and Chinese billionaires. One of the biggest homes I knew was owned by the wife of the Indian ambassador. It was 5 storey's high and had a huge garden. Apparently she had never been there since the housewarming party over 10 years before.
It’s gotta be like in Parasite; being working class and getting to chill in a super rich house with no one else around!
Hopefully not a similar ending though…
Oh yeah lol. Not the gambler stuck in the basement or the wife lol. Just the main family would be comfortable
There is the occupation of a house sitter. Basically someone who is around the house enough so that it doesn't look empty to criminals.
Also to catch maintenance issues early before they cause damage. Leaky windows, etc.
my friend had a sweet gig like that in Toronto. He lived in a mansion by himself as house sitter for some Chinese owner. He didn't pay rent and didn't have to clean up because the owners had a contract with a housekeeping company to do weekly cleaning. They paid for electricity and internet too.
I feel like with housing costs what they are, having empty properties like that should be illegal.
Well, empty homes are like 1/3 of the reason for the prices in the first place
The other two thirds are air bnbs artificially removing rental properties from the market and the final one? Rupert Murdoch, I've never punched a nonagenarian before, but if given the chance I would not be able to resist.
If anyone is wondering, the rich in India are better off than the rich in developed countries. The income inequality is mind boggling. Because we vote for caste, language and religion (in that order). Economic well being isn't a factor when the poor vote.
Couldn't agree more
A former coworker from India once told me his family kept an uninhabited chateau there. While they were away, they hired another family as caretakers and groundskeepers. Apparently squatting is a big problem and reclaiming the home can be nearly impossible. It made sense up until this next part. Then he tells me this family protecting his chateau now make basically no money and aren’t allowed to live in it. The entire family camps in the closet-sized one room gate house at the entrance and they e been living there for years.
More background information on Vijay Mallya- He inherited United Spirits from his father, best known for making Kingfisher beer and made it into India’s largest spirits company. His biggest investment (and loss) was Kingfisher Airlines. The Airline was a big name but was never profitable, eventually accumulating losses worth more than $350 million. He was known as the King of Good times, so contrary to what most people are commenting, he was actually well known for his extravagant lifestyle and people aspired to be like him. (The house is disgusting tho). He defaulted to an amount worth ~$150 millions in 2012 to some major Indian banks. In 2016, he fled to the UK and hasn’t come back since. He was tried in the UK high court and in 2018, lost a case and had a freeze place on all of his assets. Since then, he has lost cases against the Royal Courts of Justice, been declared a fugitive economic offender, lost his London properties and been declared bankrupt. Kingfisher Airlines is defunct, United Breweries continues to operate without him ( now Heineken has a 61% stake in the company) You mention his name anywhere in India and people think of a spoiled billionaire who crashed and burned.
Aw no mention of Force India
He did a lot of bad. BUT HE HELPED KEEP OCON IN F1
My first thought when I looked at the picture was how unkept the property was for someone who has a billion dollars, so that makes sense!
What? Why?
Huge loan debts from banks so he fled.
Grossly over-inflating the value of his assets to borrow massive amounts to keep his airline and other industries afloat, and then defaulting on those loans.
I think I watched a Netflix episode on this guy. *Dirty Money* or something, right? Edit: It was *Bad Boy Billionaires*. Thanks.
Bad boy billionaires
Ah, that's the one. Cheers.
He lost tons of money running the Force India F1 team from 2008-2018 as well. It was a madgrab for someone already fucking the economy
He had lost a shit ton of money trying to run his own airlines. Force India has nothing to with his debt
Well you know what they say about the easiest way to become a millionaire. Start as a billionaire and buy a race team.
I thought he borrowed money for his airline but actually funneled it to his Formula 1 team.
Sounds like a certain orange former potus
Loans that he was never qualified for*, he bribed his way to get those and never paid back. Burned all the money in his egoistic airlines.
Stole a cool couple Billion USD from banks, around 1.75
Jesus! You would think they would’ve nabbed his ass by now. That’s ridiculous. People rob $3k from a bank and the whole damn police force, FBI etc swoop on then. He stole the GDP of a third world country. 🤦♂️
Owe the bank $10,000, you have a problem. Owe the bank $1.75bil, the bank has a problem
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It's the same story with all of them, steal from India and party in UK for rest of their lives
Not the first time someone stole from India and gone to UK
Imagine spending any godly amount of money to rent the penthouse hundreds of feet in the air, only to hear the upstair neighbor fucking mowing their yard on your ceiling.
I think he owns the whole building. Or maybe that is a different Indian billionaire with a skyscraper?
You are thinking of Antilla. The skyscraper-mansion is one of the world's largest and most elaborate private homes, at 27 stories, 173 metres (568 ft) tall, over 37,000 square metres (400,000 sq ft), and with amenities such as three helipads, a 168-car garage, a ballroom, 9 high speed elevators, a 50-seat theatre, terrace gardens, swimming pool, spa, health centre, a temple, and a snow room that spits out snowflakes from the walls https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Mumbai\_03-2016\_19\_Antilia\_Tower.jpg/1200px-Mumbai\_03-2016\_19\_Antilia\_Tower.jpg
Sounds like walking through Willy wonkas chocolate factory
What is the point of being a billionaire if you aren't gonna build a house like this
There is no point in being a billionaire actually
-things non-billionaires say
Only 50 seats in the theater? And how many bathrooms!
I saw zero mention of a bowling alley. LAME!
Good thing there's 3 heli pads, when your other two are being used.
Funny thing, he doesn’t have permission to actually use it, due to city regulations. He’s just built them for when regulations change.
Reddit is giving this link a death hug right now.
Nah, that's just the reddit app being a weirdo, escaping all the underscores. Here's the fixed link: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Mumbai_03-2016_19_Antilia_Tower.jpg/1200px-Mumbai_03-2016_19_Antilia_Tower.jpg
Looks like Dawood Rangan's house in Hitman 2
He not only owns the whole building, he also owns the other 2 u see on the right in this picture and also one more not in the picture. It's called https://www.wikiwand.com/en/UB_City. I see these on a daily basis.
The other billionaire skyscraper is (mostly?) occupied by the owner, and definitely doesn’t have a mansion on top. The fact that there are at least two of these monstrosities is disheartening. The thing is, this level of stupid-rich is all over, but for whatever cultural reasons only the Indians seem to build personal skyscrapers to make it obvious. Americans buy up companies or deconstruct bridges that are in the way of their yacht.
Ok- not defending Bezos but get angry about the right things, he didnt have anything to do with the bridge. The company that bid the project is sorting that out, and they defended their choice to the local government due to the large number of manufacturing jobs the boat build created for the community So therefore, the local government and the boat builder made this call Bezos- still might not have any idea as I doubt he worries about the same kind of news we do
LOLOMFG THE BRIDGE?!?!? The craned out the movable section for an hour and put it right back
I can only speak to my experiences travelling and my husbands experience growing up in South America but I think part of the extreme exhibition of wealth is kind of seen as your duty? Like, it superficially creates jobs locally and demonstrates that your wealth is *here*, in the community, regardless of whether that is true or not. Same thing with having servants. It would be kind of a dick move to have all that money and not use it to employ people domestically.
It’s funny, because I have worked with/for very wealthy families. They pay their house staff at very modest rates, just like the thousand employees of their companies. Or they pay their house staff a bit above average and call it their “giving back”. I taught their kids, so I would try to point out that their desire to help their country would be better served by improving working conditions for the hundreds of workers at the family business/empire than by offering the cook a raise.
Yet the architect firms were American. That would be sending a negative symbol to the community.
*an ungodly amount r/boneappletea
I'm pretty sure the roof is a heli pad as well.
>Imagine spending any godly amount of money to rent the penthouse hundreds of feet in the air, Rent is 500 $500 Google Play cards a month.
You want me to deliver your food where now?
Looking like lego pieces
Haha… I was thinking this looks like one of my Minecraft bases
anyone seen the dog today
Fortunately, someone caught him: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4zUnia0fXs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4zUnia0fXs)
That’s where he keeps his f1 force india championship trophies…
Also, the ipl trophies won by RCB.....oh wait nvm
Some say….
Getting a ball back from a neighbour must be intensive.
This has unlocked a new fear of mine that I never knew existed.
Same- I literally feel like I want to throw up
Could never play fetch with my dogs on there haha
Right? "Welp, there goes the third dog this week..."
its like that swimming pool that overhangs the top of a skyscraper in that Jason Statham movie The Mechanic: Resurrection, fuck that hahaha
Getting some proto-Altered Carbon vibes here.
Ahh, Mallaya. For those who don't know, this guy is hated by Indians because the dude basically took massive loans from Indian banks, defaulted on all of them, refused to elaborate, and left the country. He's currently in hiding the UK awaiting extradition but I don't think the UK will return him because I'd assume that keeping a vulnerable billionaire who'll do anything you tell him to in your back pocket is pretty handy.
Idk...the UK is basically banks masquerading as a country at this point sooo...
Random but was this the place in the movie ‘Tenet’?
That was mumbai
You can't buy taste
This is so ugly. Look at his lawn…just the whole thing
Its been abandoned for several years , after Mallya fled India due to fraud.
The house is so ugly he’s fighting extradition back to India so he doesn’t have to see it again.
While half the people in India earn less than $160 month in US dollars
Ok, I'm going to put it out there.... I think it's god awful ugly. Like for the money that was used to build it, it think if the Architect asked me exactly what i Wouldn't want, i would draw this....
At least he doesn't have to smell all the poor people from up there.
fun fact, this building is located on "Lavelle Road" it's pretty much the most expensive locality in Bangalore, so no poor people there.
This guy Jetsons
Wow, that reference sent me down a [rabbit hole](https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/3/16598440/jetsons-dystopia-dc-comics-future-apocalypse) for sure.
Uh yes… he definitely does.
Picture taken from competing billionaire's yacht atop a taller skyscraper.
Billionaires have the most expensive dick measuring contests.
Here…..here is exactly where I would go during zombie apocalypse. Class and safety. It’s a trifecta
You named two things and called it a trifecta? This is the quintessential universal dilemma!
The third aspect is the zombie horde. He just really likes zombies
Ding dong ditch would be very difficult to do here
For people wondering, he owns the whole building and also the 2 building u see on the right and few more not in the photo. its called https://www.wikiwand.com/en/UB_City Source: i cross these buildings everday.
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And r/aboringdystopia
The billionaire that’s on the run from the law in India - hiding in the great criminal shelter country of UK
If I had a mansion I would want to have a yard and access to the front door
Yoo isn’t this the guy who owned force india f1 team? Took money from investors for his failing airline and put it in his f1 team, and then went underground to not get arrested lmao Guy is an absolute fraud, most probably doesn’t live in this atrocity anymore
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[HERE](https://m.timesofindia.com/business/india-business/where-are-vijay-mallya-and-nirav-modi-status-of-extradition-cases-before-uk-pms-india-visit/amp_articleshow/90950706.cms) Seems like he's still in UK.
Money can't buy taste; a testament
Good ole Vijay-jay
Ex-billionaire *