Homes of the rich...

[drunkenmaster]

Funny isn't it how if it were in Manchester city center it would be a block of flats but put it in the middle of London and it becomes an Apartment Block.

They are both the same thing but apartment sounds more posh than flat LOL

not really, you can have flats in london, apartments are more expensive. Flats tend to mean small but multiple room places, IE you have a bathroom, a bedroom, a kitchen, a living room etc, etc. AN apartment tends to be a single huge room, think the apartments from Friends, with bedrooms and bathroom separate but the rest massive space. Expensive apartments tend to be the huge ceiling, massive room, bedroom and bathrooms and thats it. Often converted factories and the like.

Flats and apartments normally mean different things, though lots of people will use one word for both.

 

[misterPK]

I'd have a huge expanse of land around my abode, but every square inch of it would be covered with bear traps.

Congratulations, you'd be protected from bears, which are a constant threat to your home here in the UK

See?! Bunker > House.

Why not do it Marineville (the base from Stingray) style, and have your house on big hydraulic stilts ready to lower underground and become a bunker in times of danger.

PK!

 

[platinum87]

if i havnt got enough stuff to kill 1million people in my house

than its not a superhome

 

[Cosimo]

No house is completely secure so what does it matter whether it’s an in your face house or a rundown terrace. If I wanted to live in a great big place, I would without worrying about it.

 

[platinum87]

No house is completely secure so what does it matter whether it’s an in your face house or a rundown terrace. If I wanted to live in a great big place, I would without worrying about it.

guns, nerve gas, c4, sleeping gas, land mines, rocket launchers, automated kill bots, a few hundred genetically engineered dogs with lasers on their heads..

the house has a self destruct system which detonates a 150mega ton nuclear bomb

 

[peterattheboro]

I'd have a huge house and a small picket fence for security.

That should keep out the scum.

 

[Wossi]

I'd build a moat with crocodiles at the bottom, let's see someone try breaking in then. In fact I'd welcome people to try so I can feed the crocs.

 

[misterPK]

I'd build a moat with crocodiles at the bottom, let's see someone try breaking in then. In fact I'd welcome people to try so I can feed the crocs.

Rooftop helicopter entry, or some kind of portable bridge.

That or use the crocs as stepping stones Rodger Moore Live and Let Die style.

PK!

 

[Wiggins]

I would have my huge house with acres of land around me.

However, there would be a moat around the house and this attached to fence posts around it:

 

[ScarySquirrel]

I would install a tesla coil

 

[Abyss]

not really, you can have flats in london, apartments are more expensive. Flats tend to mean small but multiple room places, IE you have a bathroom, a bedroom, a kitchen, a living room etc, etc. AN apartment tends to be a single huge room, think the apartments from Friends, with bedrooms and bathroom separate but the rest massive space. Expensive apartments tend to be the huge ceiling, massive room, bedroom and bathrooms and thats it. Often converted factories and the like.

Flats and apartments normally mean different things, though lots of people will use one word for both.

By definition, a flat is a particular type of apartment where by it is all on one floor (e.g. flat).

Anything beyond this is down to marketing (e.g. "apartment" sounds more upmarket than "flat").

 

[Vita]

I'd live in a normal street tbh. These houses in the middle of nowhere, you're bound to get targeted and stuff. Normal street, should do it. But obviously buy like 5 of the houses out and build a huge big one.

 

[-Ad-]

I would install a tesla coil

and flame towers to stop the hordes of pesky men swarming the tesla coil.

And also a goalkeeper on the roof to kill anything in the air, including O2 !

 

[Things change I've changed]

Shark infested moat and drawbridge tbh.

 

[Infam0us]

Get a M0at tbh. ^^ Beat me to it

 

[Cheekykid]

For me the best security is the one that keeps you secure and at the same time attracts no attention.

If you are rich enough to have a huge house in a huge land why not build a very high fence, covered with plants/trees so that it may look as something beautiful, of about 6-7meters tall with well hidden cameras inside it and some people in a small room monitoring everything 24/7. This is the most secure and subtle measure you could have I imagine. Sure the huge structure may receive "some" attention but if done carefully nothing like having armed guards outside, visible cameras,dogs etc.
Also no one could get into the house without being checked by the surveillance guys who also have guns "just in case" and direct line with the police.

I don't think there is any measure better than this. It is what I would do for sure

 

[Conscript]

Congratulations, you'd be protected from bears, which are a constant threat to your home here in the UK

A man who steps in a bear trap is pretty much ****ed too. It's true because I've seen it in some old cartoons.

 

[eXor]

Speaking of break ins, how shatterproof are shatterproof windows? You always see people bouncing chairs off them in the movies. Would they be able to withstand the attentions of a determined burglar? The alternative is bars on the windows, but those are just unattractive.

I'd have a web of motion / acoustic / heat sensors, thick vault doors and an underground panic room with a long tunnel leading away from the main building. Of course, the secret would have to die with the construction crew..

 

[theNude]

Its easy to get round this, tie bags of money around your property and the people will come with there guns etc and see the easy money and think that attacking you is a lot of hassle and just take the easy money.

or hire chuck norris as security.

 

[misterPK]

A man who steps in a bear trap is pretty much ****ed too. It's true because I've seen it in some old cartoons.

So you don't mean eco-hugging humane bear traps then, but proper snappy spikey mantraps? check out the awesome bone crunching trap scene in the film Severance for some gorey laughs.

PK!