Burbclaves are for losers

October 28, 2005 2:36 PM

What to do when you have more richies than quaint antique European towns for them to buy? Create a new one. The newest in über premium five-star living for the non-cyclical rich. [via We Make Money, Not Art]
posted by Ogre Lawless (11 comments total)

Similarly here: The World Islands, The Palm Islands: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4, your own private island
posted by Ogre Lawless at 2:36 PM on October 28, 2005

Can I get one named "Potemkin"?
posted by alumshubby at 2:45 PM on October 28, 2005

"Old town," my ass. Russian millionaires don't want anything old-looking. Trust me, this is going to wind up like the New Las Vegas (if it's anything more than a lure for investors, which will somehow wind up dribbling away without anything actually getting built).
posted by languagehat at 3:27 PM on October 28, 2005

I wouldn't want to live there because I suspect that I wouldn't like my neighbors.
posted by leftcoastbob at 3:45 PM on October 28, 2005

How can you sell $1,500 jeans with a web site that looks like it cost about ten cents?
posted by Optimus Chyme at 4:19 PM on October 28, 2005

There are "only" 30,000 millionaires in Moscow. Damn.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 4:36 PM on October 28, 2005

Uber premium living? Pah! A poor match for my infra quantum megaquad E-living.

Amateur proletariat wannabes.
posted by bhance at 5:09 PM on October 28, 2005

The more I read this the more I think they are a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 5:15 PM on October 28, 2005

The more I read this the more I think they are a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

....about 15 years too late.

Nice thread title.
posted by spiderwire at 5:43 PM on October 28, 2005

How about we Godwin this one?
posted by rolypolyman at 7:46 PM on October 28, 2005

but will this new Russian development be franchise owned?
posted by CCK at 1:46 PM on October 29, 2005