You can have this in New Orleans for 1 million

[Daniel]

Link to video

Reluctantly, I'm voting no.

He starts out with the state of the art security system. There's a reason it needs one.

The downstairs has no privacy. You'd have to put curtains on the windows.

There are too many stairs and too many levels sharing an outside porch. I need more privacy for this list price.

The arrangement is strange in that you could live at the top of the building if it had a kitchen and the bedrooms had real privacy.

I don't expect an Otis elevator in a place like this but give me a tube elevator. This is not an age in place house.

On a positive note, the kitchen is everything you could want, as are the floors, as are the bathrooms. It's a nice neighborhood. It has a parking space.

Overall, the interior is troublesome and incoherent but the rooms are nice.

YMMV.

[AndyD]

Do you think the neighbours sold their garden to have this built? Happens in London.
End up with nice houses but with no garden, and overlooking each other.

[Daniel]

I don't know. Interesting question.

[Bernard]

Ugly and confused on the outside. Borderline hideous.

[Daniel]

The inside is like a labyrinth. No rhyme or reason. No privacy. The outside isn't great. The only good thing is the privacy and views from the top floors but they messed that up by connecting different bedrooms on different levels to the outside patio. Shouldn't the owner of a house like this have a private balcony?

[Steve Miller]

Decent house but I’d hesitate to buy anything in New Orleans these days.

Flood risk is too high, particularly when stretched out over 20+ years.

[wtg]

@Steve-Miller said:

Flood risk is too high, particularly when stretched out over 20+ years.

Yup.

https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/24698

[Daniel]

The levees broke and New Orleans flooded several times before the morning after Katrina. The people by which I mean the poor know it. It exists below sea level. I saw a National Geographic cover decades ago warning it could flood and lived to see the day. And there's a lot wrong with it other than the fact it exists below sea level. It's one of the most polluted places on earth. I was thinking more about comparing the houses of Charleston and New Orleans more than anything else. I would never move back to New Orleans. I would never move back to Hawaii for that matter. I think once you're seen the reality of some of these famous places you might not want to see it again.