If your dad is Bill Gates, you’re probably not getting a Starbucks gift card for graduating college.
In 2018, Jennifer Gates walked off the Stanford stage and onto a 124-acre, $15.82 million horse farm in North Salem, New York. According to Architectural Digest, the lavish estate was a graduation gift from her billionaire parents—and came complete with rolling pastures, three parcels of land, and proximity to New York City for her future studies.
But in case that sounds too much like the plot of “Succession: Equestrian Edition,” Melinda Gates would like to remind everyone: their kids were absolutely raised “middle class.”
How do you raise a child “middle class in this house:
Bill Gates designed and owns a 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) mansion that is on Lake Washington in Medina, Washington.In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US$1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.
The house features an estate-wide server system, a 60-foot (18 m) swimming pool with an underwater music system, a 2,500-square-foot (230 m2) gym, and a 1,000-square-foot (93 m2) dining room. There are six kitchens and 24 bathrooms, ten of which contain bathtubs.
Hmmph. The most surprising part is that there are ten tubs for 24 bathrooms. You’d think those sort of people would just have combined the ten tubs into three giant tubs in 8 giant bathrooms so they could do their kinky stuff. Wasn’t bill a multiple time guest of epstein?
Why TF would you put in a pool that is 7 m shorter than Olympic sized? There’s a reason they are 25 m. It makes it much easier to determine your daily workout.
20 yards is still a nice number, but it is weird to not just go a bit further and hit the 25m distance of a standard competitive pool
Bill Gates is rich enough to have other people work out for him.
Olympic-sized is 50 meters, but your point stands.