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I think it's less weird than people who get really obsessed with celebrity divorces, as in the relationship and who is in the 'right' etc - but I say this as someone who would find the property value more interesting than the celebrities themselves.

This is why I like the AD celebrity home tours on YouTube.

I love looking at houses, especially ones outside my price range. I like to imagine living there.

I'm not obsessed but I do find it baffling and weird that they would own a house like that in France. They both work and seem to mostly live in the US, so...what's the point?
Weird, expensive real estate never made sense to me.

Jolie's mother was French, I think she has French citizenship, speaks French, and often lives there.

Does she? Well, i hope she's been enjoying that place.

I mean... south of France is beautiful, the food is amazing, it makes a good home base for travels to other parts of France as well as surrounding countries. And if you like wine, then a winery sounds like a fun thing to own? They're filthy rich, so it's not like that aspect is any hardship, and when you're filthy rich you can also jet over for a long weekend.

The notion of 'jetting over' for a weekend is so....awful to me. I HATE flying, so much, and I would be so unsettled and meh over being somewhere for a couple days and then having to pack everything up and leave again....

It just doesn't sound fun to me. A couple *weeks*, sure, but not a couple days....

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It's not the airport it's the in the air stuff that is bad. Fuck an airport, I can do an airport all day. I don't want to be in the AIR.

And having a covey of people following me on my 'weekend away' doesn't sound remotely restful or fun.

Living like that is just completely not attractive to me at all.

I have a relative with I think shared ownership in a propeller plane, and the one time I was on that it was enough of a change that I found myself writing in the Exotic Locations Reporter register in my journal about the experience. There were in the vicinity of 8 fairly comfortable seats in the cabin, lined up along each side, with a generous center aisle. The cockpit was fully visible around the seat backs, so I could see through the front window and get gadget envy of the huge Garmin navigation screen. It was just me and the other relative I was flying with, with more space between us than we typically have at a normal dining room table or in a car. Even if the plane had been fully occupied, it would have been less crowded than a city or commuter bus. And that's just a small plane; with what I've seen of private jets it tends to be a mobile living room or two instead of anything resembling a commercial jet. The only on-ground comparisons I can think of would be celebrity tour buses and private rail cars.

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No lavatory, still more comfortable than a commercial jet.

Well, I imagine when you're that rich, you probably keep plenty of clothes and other stuff at your vacation house so there's no need to pack. No need to mess around with security and waiting and long lines if you've got access to a private jet, either.

Don't get me wrong, I'm with you! I don't like flying and still wouldn't do that even if I was a millionaire, but it seems like plenty of rich people think nothing of it.

Just a weird damn way to live.

I think that at that level of wealth, you're living in another reality, TBH. Normal people who don't have more money than they know what to do with naturally struggle to relate. I can't really wrap my head around it, either.

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I think movie celebrities have to fly a lot to start with. So probably they don't have the same phobia.
To be fair, I know ordinary people who are absolutely OK with flying to another country for the weekends, packing and all. No, not me, I have pretty severe fear of flying, also my ears hurt quite badly by pressure change.

I wouldn't call it a phobia, but it's just so incredibly...uncomfortable. And weird. And I get motion sickness at the drop of the hat, so I have to be drugged to the gills. And PEOPLE. In my SPACE.
All in all, once of the worst ways to travel EVER.

One of my friends is upper middle class and he travels a lot. He used to do it for leisure, and then it converted into work. It sounds stressful and he's had to deal with a lot of really bad situations. But ultimately, I think some people, especially those who can afford the time and money, enjoy that freedom to be able to literally go from one place to another, even if traveling sucks. Just being able to fly to France and stay there for a couple days is a luxury and so it feels rewarding to travel. Just my personal theory based on my solo experience and with my friend LOL

I think it would be nice for a couple weeks or months, but not days. That's just too unsettling and too short a time, and flying (and all that attendant hassle) wouldn't be worth it to me, EVEN if i had people running around organizing cars and whatnot.

I'm too much of a hermit to like being out and about - i just want to hunker down somewhere and be aloooone, heh.

This is what I come to FS for, OP! Lol

Ngl, for a minute it took me back to Johnny Depp & Vanessa Paradis' home back in the early aughts in the south of France which i could only see via aerial view because Google maps wasn't that up to date yet. Smh at my teenage self.

Didn't they own a whole damn village in France? That was wild.

Being interested in celebrity architecture is so much cooler than being interested in celebrity relationships.

Imagine they were fighting over a super expensive painting that's never shown publicallyor something, it tracks.

What's wrong with wanting to see how wealthy people live? 98% of us don't live like they do.

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