The square footage on this place is... big

May 28, 2020 6:23 PM

The listing for this forest-encircled house in California includes some interesting photos. The reclusive resident generally keeps to herself, but trying to shift a property in these times means you have to put yourself out there.
posted by smoke (22 comments total)

Clever and all, but they’re maybe having trouble selling it because it’s liable to go up with all those trees if there’s a forest fire.
posted by Devils Rancher at 6:42 PM on May 28, 2020 [1 favorite]

It's a really great fursuit, but I see so many photos of people in giant animal costumes doing normal day to day things because of the furry fandom that this probably feels more mundane to me than it does to a lot of others. Creative choices, though.

I'd want to clear all the trees away from the house to 100' at least if I lived there.
posted by hippybear at 6:45 PM on May 28, 2020 [1 favorite]

“I remember seeing somebody in an inflatable tea Rex costume a couple years back”

Look out, the memes are cross-pollinating!!
posted by ejs at 8:51 PM on May 28, 2020 [3 favorites]

I love that Bigfoot is doing the two-handed cozy coffee hold.
posted by Mei's lost sandal at 8:54 PM on May 28, 2020 [3 favorites]

This is why we can't find Sasquatch in Oregon!
posted by bendy at 9:00 PM on May 28, 2020

I thought this was pretty cute so I sent the link on to some of my friends. Sharing cute things with friends is good, right? Soooo, yeah.... my one friend writes me back: "WHY WOULD YOU SEND ME THIS". I totally forgot he has a bigfoot/yeti phobia. Whooops.
posted by Secret Sparrow at 9:11 PM on May 28, 2020 [9 favorites]

Wait, people are phobic of mythical creatures?
posted by hippybear at 9:12 PM on May 28, 2020 [2 favorites]

With good reason. Those things are completely unprincipled.
posted by flabdablet at 9:32 PM on May 28, 2020

I'd want to clear all the trees away from the house to 100' at least if I lived there.

😲 😱
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:44 PM on May 28, 2020 [2 favorites]

See, I know this is fake because houses like that in forests for under a million dollars don't exist in California.

It's probably just a single-wide in one of those inflatable costumes.
posted by loquacious at 10:31 PM on May 28, 2020 [2 favorites]

Wait, people are phobic of mythical creatures?

Are you actually trying to summon Cthulhu?
posted by loquacious at 10:32 PM on May 28, 2020

Didn’t we just see this?
posted by Jawn at 10:32 PM on May 28, 2020 [5 favorites]

Are you actually trying to summon Cthulhu?

well, it would need to be December, but given what I've seen in my news feed in the past 24 hours, WTF not?
posted by hippybear at 10:45 PM on May 28, 2020

Wait, people are phobic of mythical creatures?

People a couple towns south of me (Irvine, CA to be precise) voted down a military cemetery because of all the ghosts it would attract into their homes, so yeah.
posted by sideshow at 12:41 AM on May 29, 2020 [11 favorites]

Didn’t we just see this?

We did! I searched the URL, but that's the listing. Flagged, for a double.
posted by smoke at 1:17 AM on May 29, 2020 [2 favorites]

Nooo, please leave this post up! I missed the original post, so the comments here led me to that.

Also, nice post title.
posted by cynical pinnacle at 5:19 AM on May 29, 2020 [2 favorites]

ejs: "“I remember seeing somebody in an inflatable tea Rex costume a couple years back”"

Tea Rex is the one who can't hold a hot cup unless it has handles, right?
posted by chavenet at 6:09 AM on May 29, 2020 [1 favorite]

Y'all, I did my undergrad at UC Santa Cruz ... Felton is a dream (or was 30 years ago, whatevs).

I want. Bigfoot can stay.
posted by allthinky at 6:16 AM on May 29, 2020 [2 favorites]

Nice house, but for a million dollars? I'm cursed to be old, and having spent tender years in California more than fifty years ago, Santa Cruz has become a dimmed myth, a long-past dream of long hair and faded baggies and big guns at sunrise when storms and offshore winds make the ride worth the wait.

Also, I'm pretty sure Bigfoots don't carry Covid. Shaggy dog story.
posted by mule98J at 10:33 AM on May 29, 2020

Very cool place but seems like a ton for such a small house. For comparison, here's a random 1.1 million dollar house in Raleigh, NC where we complain all the time about how much prices are going up:

a random million dollar house in Raleigh, NC

1.5 acre, 6,599 sq. ft. (!!), great landscaping. Still way out of the range of NC tech salaries ... plus no bigfoot.

I go back and forth between eat the rich and ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh nice
posted by freecellwizard at 11:23 AM on May 29, 2020 [1 favorite]

But if we eat the rich, then we get all their stuff - it's win-win!
posted by Greg_Ace at 11:48 AM on May 29, 2020 [2 favorites]

Felton is the trees, everything else is whatever. You buy a house in Felton because of the trees. Unfortunately with this house, you would have to cut down two other houses, if you want a 100 foot clearance. Felton sits in the midst of Redwood preserves. I have visited there, a place with fairy rings of redwoods, nothing else in sight but trees, and the ocean at sunset. You have to get up on top to have this sort of area, maybe clear some brush to feel safe. Looking up through those big trees, waving over head, while you rest up from the journey, whatever your journey was, that is what Felton is about. The realtors would like everything there to be in the million dollar range, and some places are still less, with more acreage than Sasquatch's.
posted by Oyéah at 5:07 PM on May 29, 2020 [2 favorites]