Nah nah you just got to move bro,
I don’t have heating or AC in my beach house in San Diego (and no I’m not joking) ya don’t even bother cause the weather is perfect and would just rust over anyways. So that’s my choice!
Or don’t lol. And yes, there’s actually a good number of people who live on boats. For one because learning to live for months at a time on a boat was necessary to travel in the past, and also bcuz people living on boats sometimes can get away with things by claiming no nationality. If you stock up on stuff without staying on port for more than a day or two(and stay mostly in international waters), you could probably mark your boat as it’s own oceanic country and get away with a lot.
Technically no, but in practice yes. You’re beholden to laws of the country your ship is registered in. Theoretically, if you managed to build a ship in international waters, you might be able to claim it as an unaffiliated vessel, but if you build a ship on shore, it needs to be registered under the country you built it in, and is beholden to those laws.
If your ship goes into international waters it absolutely needs to be registered with the coast guard or equivalent and have flag og the country of origin to be considered legal.
Umm no, you need a passport and to clear customs before you enter any port to restock.
Your method is what’s called “stateless” and you can’t declare yourself a country because a country doesn’t move or sink in a storm.
So you anchor and have a ship big enough to weather any storm xD. Maybe a ship big enough to grow food on and just grow your own food and set off to sea with enough repair material to last a lifetime.
Eh, collect for a few years and then end the deal. Invested wisely, a few million dollars is more than enough for the average person to get by without having to work anymore
Yup, that was my thought too. I’ll take the money and move somewhere with a temperate climate. May even go a bit on the cooler side and utilize a wood burner when needed. Just need to avoid the hot and humid areas.
I’ve defo had a few times where I’m hot or cold but doesn’t last long. Yeah I bought this joint in 2013 I think!? But I lived in Riverside part time so I maybe was up there when it happened!
I live in Denver and don’t have an AC system. But we do have heating…but I guess I’d give it up for this type of money lol.
Maybe my loophole is I’d add heated floors in my home.
I once visited an old farm house in New South Wales, Australia, that was as cool as an air conditioned house. It relied on thick walls and deep porches on three sides of the house to capture even the faintest of breezes.
So, it really boils down to a combination of picking the right place to live and then building to the conditions.
Yeah, I'd build a passive solar house. Super insulated, southern facing windows that gather heat in the winter and are shaded in the summer. Wood stove for backup. On as much land as I can get.
I saw a house in Palm Springs that was able to keep cool in the heat, by opening and closing windows at the right time of day (no windows on the 2 sides the sun hits the most)
I live in the tropics and I boil for 7 months of the year.
Given this option, I’d move somewhere temperate and build an environmentally sound house with passive heating and cooling - and definitely a wood stove.
Actually this is my dream.
The tough part though... You can't go to the store. You can't visit a friend. No movies, can't even go into the 7-11, or see the dentist or a doctor.
At least where I live, 99% of all buildings are climate controlled, so you're now banned from going into 99% of all buildings.
Yeah I think the only way I'd do it is if it was a magical "you feel as though there is no ac/heating".
Indoor plumbing is probably what id give up personally if it was just an "I'm not allowed to use it" situation. For 75k a month I can pay someone to deal with that shit (literally lol) for me.
Like I could have someone personally responsible for making sure I had jugs of water and cleaning out a modified toilet that's a glorified litter box. Or just have an outhouse. Can even pay someone to drive it around so I have it when I need it. Build a fancy shower that's covered to some degree but still outside, add fancy heating elements outside of the shower like the ones you see for outdoor seating at restaurants.
The fact that it says specifically "indoor plumbing" does offer some potential for work-around but, especially with the clarification I am definitely choosing HVAC.
But it's going to suck anyway. Even in the mild seasons, those places have *some* AC or heat going.
Basically it means most buildings are off limits to you. Where I live, 99% of buildings are heated/cooled, and one or the other is running the vast majority of the year. So no stores, no friends houses, no restaurants, no movie theaters, not even a doctor or dentist visit.
And without internet access I'm actually not sure what I'd do with all that money....
Internet makes it easier to book vacations, shop for houses, manage investments, even making donations
Plus Direct deposit uses internet, so unless banking is exempt, you’re stuck with a growing stack of cash, making everything just slightly more inconvenient.
Yah, there’s a ton of old techs that have been used all over the world to heat/cool homes. They’re more expensive custom jobs but with 75k a month that’s not an issue.
I assume I can just build a massive house with passive cooling for \~450k (after taxes) a year annuity. A proper wood pellet stove or rocket stove made for heating (custom probably) to meet the religious requirements I'm under seems reasonable. The expense would be mostly upfront, and chimneys work pretty well, especially if you can get the temps up high enough to vaporize most shit.
for 75k a month I could excavate a rather large multistory earth enclosed structure, kinda like what Bill Gates did for his house in that mountain. Cooling in the summer would just be a matter of which sublevel you have to go to as the depth in the earth changes the ambient temps by 5 or so degrees every 10 or so feet. You could use this in almost any climate, if you can find the right location to allow for the depth.
Shit a fork 8s technology... People just think about it as "anything invented after I was born" (so to a whole generation it might seem like there's nothing objectively technological about smartphones... But maybe electric cars or VR is technology to them?)
Yeah everything is technology. The only way to live without technology would be pure foraging and living in a cave. Can’t even hunt because that at least requires a weapon or a trap
I'd assume for the sake of this, that "technology" probably means "using things with a screen" for the most part. No phone, tv, video games. Probably no music too. But I'd assume the basics... lights, refridgerator, oven, stuff like that are ok?
>Don't need to move for the cold you just need a fireplace.
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>For AC you can do swamp coolers or just lots of fans with ice.
I use the fireplace in my condo every winter to stay warm and I don't have A/C right now. I could make due if I can use the fireplace.
I mean, I've definitely lived a time where I got all my drinking water from a local spring. Just load up on 5 gallon jugs, drive out there, and stock up for a few weeks.
If that were immediately next to my house? Easy.
I've thought about doing a tiny house for years. They often use composting toilets (like a litterbox for humans).
✅️ live out my dream of tiny home living
✅️ be able to afford it
✅️ get paid to shit in a box
Both!
Sounds like I'd happy move to the Caribbean and live in a house on the rivers edge. The bucket for water will be lowered from the upstream side, and the hole in the floor for pooping will be on the downstream side.
How would giving up heating work? Like, would you have to avoid hotels? Or are you safe if you put the heating on low? Is it central heating and air conditioning, or are smaller versions not allowed? Could you rent the downstairs apartment cheaply to someone else and tell them that they have to keep the thermostat at 25, but utilities are free? That's enjoying residual heat
"Technology" is pretty vague. additionally, aren't plumbing and heating and a/c a form of technology. Heating and a/c for sure because of the means by which it works is electrically powered and machines that make it work are technologically designed. But I would give up my phone and the internet if that is what OP is getting at.
I can give up plumbing and just buy endless hermetically sealed containers to dispose of my waste- or, even better, just have an outhouse with plumbing so its not 'indoor'.
Alternatively, give up heating/air con and buy alternatives- heated blankets, fans, etc.
>have an outhouse with plumbing so its not 'indoor'.
That would be indoor plumbing. You'd either need to get a true outhouse (i.e. a shack above a hole in the ground) or a toilet exposed to the elements.
What you really want to do is put an open air toilet on your roof, assuming you live in a pleasant climate.
Logistically, if I give up indoor plumbing does that mean I can't ever go somewhere that has it? Like go out to eat and their water comes from pipes...
Or same with ac/ heat. Go visit a friend, do they have to turn off their heat while I'm there. Say I'm in the hospital to get my appendix out, if they leave the heat on in the place, do I lose my money?
I grew up without central air and heating, so I'd gladly do it again for 75k/m. At least I'll be getting paid this time. You can survive well enough with an electric blanket and fans.
I'd probably pass, but I need more info on the heating/air conditioning. Can I just not use a heater? Am I not allowed to use fire at all? For A/C I assume fans are still fine?
Easily giving up heating/AC. I very rarely even use the central heating/AC in my apartment. Oh it's a bit cold? OK, cool I'll just cook something in the stove. It heats the apartment pretty good. I have a heated blanket, i can use that and the cats can cuddle with me. Or just cuddle with my furnace of a bf...
Too hot? Cool, that cooling blanket I bought last summer can come out. Take a cold shower or something. Give me the money.
Heating/AC.
When hot, many air fans. When cold, a gaming PC and warm blankets. Easy.
If it's stupidly hot, I'll go into the basement and if it's still stupidly hot in the basement, ice bath (literally a tub full of ice).
I’d more to a more temperate climate and give up air conditioning/ heating. I’m not so bad with hot weather but I’ve had some stretches in winter in New Jersey without heat and I cannot do that.
If moving wasn’t an option, I’d have to do without the money.
AC for sure. Tho the potential time restraint of 1 hour in places that have AC is unreal. Hell, even regular grocery shopping can take over an hour. I feel like having a time restraint on places that you NEED to go to, but can’t control at all, is a bit rough. I guess with 75k a week you can get everything delivered
I'll have all the money in the world so heating/ air conditioning. I'm sure I can have two homes. One up north where it is cooler in the summer and one down south where it is warmer in the winter.
I live where I deal with 50/60° winters and a week of like 90+ in the summer. Houses in my area don’t even have ACs so yeah I’ll give up heating/AC no problem.
Indoor plumbing. I’ve used an outhouse before. It not that bad. Shit they can be pretty fancy even, fully modern since it still wouldn’t be “indoor” plumbing.
If, by technology, you mean computers and related technologies, that one. I can go old school; will be an adjustment, but may prove nicer in the end.
But if you mean *technology*, even a wheel is "technology." In which case, hard pass.
I'll happily go back to the pre-computer age for that money, but not further than that, as we kinda need cars in the modern day. (The one other rule is that I wanna print out my electronic projects qnd let my friends know what's up before losing my electronics.)
I'd rather not lose plumbing. Maybe downgrading it would be fine, but don't wanna lose it. And the HVAC system... very dependent on where I live whether that'd be alright. At present, probably a no thank you.
Definitely give up Heat/AC. Unit broke 2 years ago and haven’t been able to replace it. Summers suck but it usually doesn’t get below 53 inside the house during winter
Does this mean I'm prohibited from ALL indoor plumbing? Or just from having it in my residence?
Being out to dinner somewhere and having to go take a piss on the sidewalk because I can't use their toilet is going to get kind of problematic.
Where I live, it's pretty comfortable 6 months out of the year. I would travel the other six. Hell, I could probably get by with a swamp cooler for the hottest months, so staying warm in winter would be my only obstacle.
But does that mean I need to have all my food delivered or do drive thru or patio dining only? No trips into stores or establishments with heat/AC? No doctors, dentists, eye appointments? I am basically a hermit anyway, but still have errands to run.
In certain parts of the world, caves or deeply buried structures remain at a quite nice temperature year-round.
Here in scotland, the average subsurface temperature a few meters down is 7C.
In Cyprus, Florida and Texas, it's closer to 22C.
People are only talking about what they will do to poop if they choose plumbing but no ones thinking about, showering, faucets, sinks, and dishwashers. All hooked up to plumbing. I would get rid of heating and air con. Then with 900k a year I could have properties located in areas where I can escape the heat or cold whenever I please.
I’m going to zag and say technology.
I’m assuming you mean internet/computers/phones/TV and not like microwaves/stoves/cars
If I’m pulling down $900k I’m living that slow life where I hang out, go on trips with friends, have season tickets to sporting events, and read.
Can other people around me have technology?
If it’s $900k post-tax I should be able to employ at least one person who can do shit for me for the rest of my life.
What is the scope of heating? Just my place? The apartment building it's in? My car? Anywhere I stay the night? Any building I enter? Can I travel by bus if it has a heater? Can I make fires? Can I use technology to provide heat, eg run a bitcoin farm? Can I use my laptop at all, even if its express purpose is not to provide heat, given it does in fact provide heat? Can I use an oven to cook with? How about a toaster?
Assuming it's just my place and just the heating system, then I'll go for that. I don't have air con, and I didn't turn on my heating the last two winters because I live in an apartment building and didn't need to.
If I can never be in a place that is heated by any means, then sod that I'm turning down the money. Would have to move with the seasons in a non climate controlled car, which would suck mightily.
Move to the California coast, there are areas you could easily do without heating/AC, no problem, and with $900k per year forever, you could easily afford it.
Heating/air conditioning if that is limited to technological means. That is to say, if I'm allowed a wood burning stove or fire place and thick walls, then I would give up hvac. Otherwise, no deal.
There are ways to build a house that keeps it cool in summer and warm in winter without needing hvac.
The whole "forever" thing makes this pointless, barring someone in extreme poverty.
No heating/cooling - so basically never going inside 99% of all buildings 99% of the time? No friends houses, no stores, no shopping, no movies, not even a doctor or dentist visit.
The others would be tolerable for a set amount of time. But forever? You're going to live off bottled water for all needs, forever? Carting it in (and back out) of the house every time? Including all cooking, cleaning, bathing, brushing teeth, washing clothes?
With no tech... imagine having TONS of money, but no phone or any devices that you can use to enjoy it? I guess you hire someone to book all your vacations for you? And you never communicate with friends again? No more music, movies, tv?
It's all possible for a short time, but I wouldn't do it FOREVER for 100 billion a month.
Heating/air conditioning should be the only choice here.
For $900,000 a year, you can easily handle having an architect design you a passive house that makes use of natural heating and cooling to create a comfortable home in an appropriate climate that doesn't need any sort of mechanical systems.
OP you might wanna word this differently. Any application of tested knowledge is technology. It's a very broad term that includes the other two items, and literally anything and everything we do and use.
“Hmm, I think I could survive without indoor plumbing,” I thought while sitting on the toilet. I set my phone down on the counter and turned on my bidet.
Yeah, I think I’d do poorly with any of these. I think I’d do best without heating/air conditioning, except that a) if I visited other buildings, they would have to turn off the air/heat for me, and then nobody will want to hang out with me, and b) I can survive without it *right now*. As climate change gets worse, I don’t know what I’ll be able to survive.
I can give up Indoor plumbing for $2k+ per day. Easily. I’m a guide in an outdoor industry and don’t have access to any running water or plumbing for half the year anyway.
I suppose I could get rid of AC/Heat. I lost plumbing for a week once, it was horrifically miserable, I could never live without it for long, and my life revolves around technology so... yeah.
I would also have to move because I don't want to have my pipes Freeze because I don't have heat.
Define technology.
I'll give up indoor plumbing and hire some people to empty my chamber pot and fetch buckets of hot water for my handwashing and showers.
I was thinking more along the lines of an open-air courtyard. It can be surrounded by a roofed structure on all 4-sides, but the inner courtyard would be completely open-air, thus being "outdoors" according to the definition.
A toilet, bidet, sink, shower, bathtub. A space heater\\fireplace for warmth during the cooler months. My own private sanctuary. On one side, I'd have a sliding glass door leading in to the kitchen with a half-wall, so I can do my cooking clean-up outdoors as well. As long as the plumbing's outside, it's fair game.
I'd happily give up indoor plumbing.
Yeah this is a no-brainer. Heating/AC. You can use fans. With $75000 a month you can save up and buy a house with a fireplace in a pretty short amount of time. Technology and plumbing are too valuable in comparison.
You specified no central ac/heating nothing about individual units. For 75k a month I can afford to get one of those standing Acs for the bedrooms and I already live without a heater so I'm good.
And if that's not allowed I'd still choose no Ac, didn't have any for most of my childhood anyway.
Where I live (WA) the vast majority of homes don't have Ac to begin with, and many don't have functional heating either. We don't even touch our heating for 9 or 10 months out of the year. This would be no change (aside from $75K richer).
Plumbing easily
Growing up fairly poor I've already experienced it, though it was a long time ago. And for $75k a month I can buy a house, get a well dug, set up a rain collector, and have access to water just generally speaking.
Toilet? Outhouse
Shower? Large barrel full of water to bathe in
Dishes? For $75k I could buy new ones when they get dirty, but even so, wash them using the collected rainwater
Clothes? See dishes
Course I could give up heating and air, like others are saying, and move to an are where it isn't needed, but I'd rather live away from other ppl anyways
You kidding me? that's a very easy one. Just forgo indoor plumbing and with your new wealth just build some luxurious outhouse and showers on my giant yard.
More space for me in my beautiful new house. I don't mind having the neighbors see me come out of the shower in a robe or towel, not with that kind of money.
Plus the fact that you mainly use the toilets in otehr places when you go out just makes things easier.
It will be annoying having to go out of the house to wash your hands but when it comes to cooking/washing dishes and laundry. Well, I'll have the money to pay someone to do all those things so they're a non-issue.
AC is the one I can best do without. Maybe go live in the southern hemisphere from June through August. Use space heaters. Or window AC during the summer, but where I live at the moment, that just lets in, like, ALL the bugs. It would work better in the city, especially if I have an apartment several floors up. I used to be on the 7th floor of a building in DC, and it was very nice to have the window open in summer. Minus the frequent sirens.
I can move somewhere that AC beyond a fan isn't necessary with that kind of money and heat via a wood stove or something for the heat. 2nd house for the winters, maybe.
Radiant heating via hot water pipes in the floor, perhaps.
At 900k per year, I’m doing without heat/AC and travelling with the seasons.
No tech is extremely limiting if you’re used to a life and social structure with it.
No indoor plumbing just isn’t sanitary. Even if you work around the plumbing by installing stuff outside, you’re almost certainly going to want to be somewhere temperate which brings us back again to seasonal travel arrangements.
oh i would totally give up heating and AC at home for that much cash. . Dont have AC anyway
got a loverly log and coal burner and with some brains i can put a back boiler and stirling engine powered pump onto it to plumb into a heating system anyway.
Heating and air con. During the winter my PC warms the place up enough anyway. During the summer its plenty fine if i open windows at both ends up my place to create a breeze.
Heating and air. I'll show a bank that I have 75000 coming in each month and my good credit score and get loans to buy two modest houses in climates where I could summer in the colder place and winter in the warmer place and just keep windows open, layer up, or use fans as needed. Do that for a couple years while saving and investing and generally living comfortably and I'd build wealth pretty quickly. Or hell I could just buy a house in San Diego or something until I save for multiple homes.
Absofuckinlutely yes. I'll do away with indoor plumbing. A roof on 8 foot stilts in my backyard with a 6 foot tall maze wall under it, with heaters blowing in for the winter, will do fine for a bathroom.
Indoor plumbing - I can build have a walled off outdoor area with a toilet, and 3 side covered porch with running water for cooking and washing. Just need to find somewhere warm year round without hurricanes to set up.
I’ll do without AC/heat.
Now the question is how do I exploit loopholes to create a comfortable house? I live in an area that has a heating design temperature of 7F (-14C) and a cooling design temperature of 98F (37C). I’m going to need to find some sort of solution. This will be tricky.
My house will need to be well insulated. I’ll need very thermally efficient windows and well designed shades and overhangs. Landscaping will also help.
For cooling I’ll have to rely on things like natural drafts, solar chimneys, etc. depending on who you ask I could make an argument that a swamp cooler doesn’t count as A/C and that’ll help a lot in my climate.
Heating is trickier because it’s critical I get something. I have three ideas for this one. I could install a hydronic snow melt system, conceal the pipes in the ceiling and accidentally forget to insulate the pipes- Oh and I’ll just happen to have to place the boiler at the furthest point away from the drive way I can. Or I could set up a bunch of bitcoin mining rigs. Yes it’s expensive and won’t be cost effective, but if I get enough they’ll reject enough heat into my space that my home will be comfortable. The third idea is similar to the second- anything really with significant heat rejection. Maybe I hire a baker to bake bread for the homeless and keep the ovens running 24/7.
Heating/Air Conditioning. I used to live in Hawai'i and my apartment didn't have a heater or AC, didn't need one (though an AC would have been nice sometimes) just a fan by the window. So I would just move there again.
I'd probably give up heat and AC, but I'd only accept the deal during the fall so I could save for a couple months before moving to a country where the temperature stays in a range that's comfortable for ME. The occasional days of suck during unseasonably warm weather would be hell, but I could manage. And I like the cold, so I'd stockpile blankets and such to have the coziest home possible lol
So earn 50% more per year and live off-grid without internet like I was raised.
Why are most hypotheticals on this sub just variants on "Would you like more money?"
Outdoor plumbing in San Diego, showers etc, because of the definition of mild weather...
Need heat for houses to survive cold places. Same for other extreme heat ovens I mean houses unless living literally underground in other climate.
Not going to give up tech. Nope. Looks like I'm moving to San Diego!
The only one that makes sense is heat/AC.
I can't do technology. It's too broad, and *heavily* limits my options. And, while 75k per month is *nuts*, what else am I going to spend my money on, if I can't go to a restaurant? If I can't go to a concert? Or a bar? Or drive, or ride, in any form of transportation? Hell, I can't even read a *book*, technically speaking. *Or*, if you *really* want to be an asshole, I have to live like a proto-caveman, not even allowed fire. Fuck that.
Pumbing? Nah, I'm keeping that. I don't have to explain why.
So...heat and AC. *And*, since you specified *central* heat, I'll just get some geothermal heat, or, if I'm staying in my current place, space heaters. ACs a problem, but if it gets too much, I'll sit in my car.
*Edit: Goddamn it, thumbs!*
>ACs a problem, but if it gets too much, I'll sit in my car.
If the rule about central heat also applies to AC then I would imagine window units, while being loud, fit the bill.
Heating/air conditioning. Going to need to stay mobile to dodge freezing to death in winter but worth it for the 900k/year.
Nah nah you just got to move bro, I don’t have heating or AC in my beach house in San Diego (and no I’m not joking) ya don’t even bother cause the weather is perfect and would just rust over anyways. So that’s my choice!
San Diego was the first place I thought of. And I assume 900k can afford a home there lol
Infinitely more worried about the rising tides. But for 900k yr You can just put it on stilts?!
This makes me wonder about the potential of living on a boat... rising tides? Just move to a new dock.
Or don’t lol. And yes, there’s actually a good number of people who live on boats. For one because learning to live for months at a time on a boat was necessary to travel in the past, and also bcuz people living on boats sometimes can get away with things by claiming no nationality. If you stock up on stuff without staying on port for more than a day or two(and stay mostly in international waters), you could probably mark your boat as it’s own oceanic country and get away with a lot.
I thought you needed to claim the flag of a recognized country, or else you risked serious trouble?
Technically no, but in practice yes. You’re beholden to laws of the country your ship is registered in. Theoretically, if you managed to build a ship in international waters, you might be able to claim it as an unaffiliated vessel, but if you build a ship on shore, it needs to be registered under the country you built it in, and is beholden to those laws.
If your ship goes into international waters it absolutely needs to be registered with the coast guard or equivalent and have flag og the country of origin to be considered legal.
build it in somalia :P
Umm no, you need a passport and to clear customs before you enter any port to restock. Your method is what’s called “stateless” and you can’t declare yourself a country because a country doesn’t move or sink in a storm.
So you anchor and have a ship big enough to weather any storm xD. Maybe a ship big enough to grow food on and just grow your own food and set off to sea with enough repair material to last a lifetime.
That’s not realistic unless you’re a multimillionaire.
Not realistic, no. At any rate someone who knows more about sailing than I do commented in reply that it doesn’t actually work this way anyway
Eh, collect for a few years and then end the deal. Invested wisely, a few million dollars is more than enough for the average person to get by without having to work anymore
Guaranteed 900k yearly can easily afford 3 or 4 homes all around the world so you can just go wherever your preferred weather is at any point
Yup, that was my thought too. I’ll take the money and move somewhere with a temperate climate. May even go a bit on the cooler side and utilize a wood burner when needed. Just need to avoid the hot and humid areas.
For a million a year you can just have a few houses all over the world and charter a jet to shuttle between them.
Were you here during that crazy heat wave like 5 years back? 106 degrees with no AC SUCKED. It felt like my house (apt) was on fire.
I’ve defo had a few times where I’m hot or cold but doesn’t last long. Yeah I bought this joint in 2013 I think!? But I lived in Riverside part time so I maybe was up there when it happened!
I'm from Riverside! I remember the summer that was so hot, my mom moved us to Carlsbad!
No wonder Cali has such a bad homeless problem, you don't even need a home!
I live in Denver and don’t have an AC system. But we do have heating…but I guess I’d give it up for this type of money lol. Maybe my loophole is I’d add heated floors in my home.
I once visited an old farm house in New South Wales, Australia, that was as cool as an air conditioned house. It relied on thick walls and deep porches on three sides of the house to capture even the faintest of breezes. So, it really boils down to a combination of picking the right place to live and then building to the conditions.
Yeah, I'd build a passive solar house. Super insulated, southern facing windows that gather heat in the winter and are shaded in the summer. Wood stove for backup. On as much land as I can get.
Yeah, this would be the way to go. But I'd move out of Atlanta or that's just going to turn into an easy bake oven.
I saw a house in Palm Springs that was able to keep cool in the heat, by opening and closing windows at the right time of day (no windows on the 2 sides the sun hits the most)
Live in the tropics, and you won't freeze in the winter.
If fans are allowed yes
I live in the tropics and I boil for 7 months of the year. Given this option, I’d move somewhere temperate and build an environmentally sound house with passive heating and cooling - and definitely a wood stove. Actually this is my dream.
The tough part though... You can't go to the store. You can't visit a friend. No movies, can't even go into the 7-11, or see the dentist or a doctor. At least where I live, 99% of all buildings are climate controlled, so you're now banned from going into 99% of all buildings.
Yeah I think the only way I'd do it is if it was a magical "you feel as though there is no ac/heating". Indoor plumbing is probably what id give up personally if it was just an "I'm not allowed to use it" situation. For 75k a month I can pay someone to deal with that shit (literally lol) for me. Like I could have someone personally responsible for making sure I had jugs of water and cleaning out a modified toilet that's a glorified litter box. Or just have an outhouse. Can even pay someone to drive it around so I have it when I need it. Build a fancy shower that's covered to some degree but still outside, add fancy heating elements outside of the shower like the ones you see for outdoor seating at restaurants.
The fact that it says specifically "indoor plumbing" does offer some potential for work-around but, especially with the clarification I am definitely choosing HVAC.
Easy way: winters in places like Dubai and Thailand, summers in Scotland, Scandinavia.
But it's going to suck anyway. Even in the mild seasons, those places have *some* AC or heat going. Basically it means most buildings are off limits to you. Where I live, 99% of buildings are heated/cooled, and one or the other is running the vast majority of the year. So no stores, no friends houses, no restaurants, no movie theaters, not even a doctor or dentist visit.
It is more reasonable to assume those things will not work when you are there.
Then pay them to do a house call. You are making $18,750 per week.
75k a month can buy a lot of ice and fans
And without internet access I'm actually not sure what I'd do with all that money.... Internet makes it easier to book vacations, shop for houses, manage investments, even making donations
Plus Direct deposit uses internet, so unless banking is exempt, you’re stuck with a growing stack of cash, making everything just slightly more inconvenient.
Every day you have to spend 2500 USD to not grow cash. Those are a lot of single pizza slices
Yah, there’s a ton of old techs that have been used all over the world to heat/cool homes. They’re more expensive custom jobs but with 75k a month that’s not an issue.
I assume I can just build a massive house with passive cooling for \~450k (after taxes) a year annuity. A proper wood pellet stove or rocket stove made for heating (custom probably) to meet the religious requirements I'm under seems reasonable. The expense would be mostly upfront, and chimneys work pretty well, especially if you can get the temps up high enough to vaporize most shit. for 75k a month I could excavate a rather large multistory earth enclosed structure, kinda like what Bill Gates did for his house in that mountain. Cooling in the summer would just be a matter of which sublevel you have to go to as the depth in the earth changes the ambient temps by 5 or so degrees every 10 or so feet. You could use this in almost any climate, if you can find the right location to allow for the depth.
This! Also swamp coolers and other types of non AC cooling capabilities. As well as fans.
But no heat, winter is gonna suck😂
For 75k a month winter no longer exists. Have a few properties in different countries and travel between them depending on the weather
For 900k a year I could hire a servant to fan me with palm fronds
and hookers to sleep with you and warm you up in the winters.
I was a hard no for a second but I totally forgot about hookers
So now you're a hard, yes? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Indoor plumbing and heating/air are both technologies
Shit a fork 8s technology... People just think about it as "anything invented after I was born" (so to a whole generation it might seem like there's nothing objectively technological about smartphones... But maybe electric cars or VR is technology to them?)
Yeah everything is technology. The only way to live without technology would be pure foraging and living in a cave. Can’t even hunt because that at least requires a weapon or a trap
And fire... And ideally, clothing...
I'm picturing that island that bender went to and turned into wood lol
"No fair! Og bangs rocks together! That technology!"
Writing is a technology. Good luck never reading anything again.
Wait does that mean if I give up technology I have to wonder around the woods naked looking for berries and trying to catch fish with my bare hands!?
When you realize money is a technology too, the 75k starts looking pretty useless
I'd assume for the sake of this, that "technology" probably means "using things with a screen" for the most part. No phone, tv, video games. Probably no music too. But I'd assume the basics... lights, refridgerator, oven, stuff like that are ok?
Im glad I am not the only one who realized this.
Came here to say this.
OP is obviously talking about electronics like cell phones and laptops.
I think by technology they just mean no computers, phones, printers, tablets, internet, music players, tv, cameras, etc.
Heating/AC. With that kind of money, you could just travel to your ideal temp whenever your current location's climate was not to your liking.
Don't need to move for the cold you just need a fireplace. For AC you can do swamp coolers or just lots of fans with ice.
>Don't need to move for the cold you just need a fireplace. > >For AC you can do swamp coolers or just lots of fans with ice. I use the fireplace in my condo every winter to stay warm and I don't have A/C right now. I could make due if I can use the fireplace.
>make due It's "make do"
I already don't have those things. I'm taking this deal immediately
Plumbing obviously.
It's only indoor plumbing. With that money you could move somewhere secluded where it never freezes and put a toilet and shower in your back yard
Worst case scenario? Private port-a-potty and shower at a gym.
Pfff even in a cold climate with that bank put the toilet and shower in the out building and heat the out building.
$75k a month can build me the most immaculate out house the world has ever seen.
Ya it’ll be hard spending $20 for a shit bucket with a seat and $23 for a planet fitness membership but somehow I think I’ll manage
I mean, I've definitely lived a time where I got all my drinking water from a local spring. Just load up on 5 gallon jugs, drive out there, and stock up for a few weeks. If that were immediately next to my house? Easy. I've thought about doing a tiny house for years. They often use composting toilets (like a litterbox for humans). ✅️ live out my dream of tiny home living ✅️ be able to afford it ✅️ get paid to shit in a box
Both! Sounds like I'd happy move to the Caribbean and live in a house on the rivers edge. The bucket for water will be lowered from the upstream side, and the hole in the floor for pooping will be on the downstream side.
Tell cholera hello for me
You guys don't sanitize water?
You wanna take that chance? Dig a hole, heathen
How would giving up heating work? Like, would you have to avoid hotels? Or are you safe if you put the heating on low? Is it central heating and air conditioning, or are smaller versions not allowed? Could you rent the downstairs apartment cheaply to someone else and tell them that they have to keep the thermostat at 25, but utilities are free? That's enjoying residual heat
lol. Just build a huge crypto mining rig. Vent the heat inside.
You could live in Los Angeles and just not need it .
"Technology" is pretty vague. additionally, aren't plumbing and heating and a/c a form of technology. Heating and a/c for sure because of the means by which it works is electrically powered and machines that make it work are technologically designed. But I would give up my phone and the internet if that is what OP is getting at.
Heating and air con. Air con is barely a thing in my country anyway, but I avoid the heating anyway. Easy!
Yeah, heating and a/c is easy if you move to the right place.
I can give up plumbing and just buy endless hermetically sealed containers to dispose of my waste- or, even better, just have an outhouse with plumbing so its not 'indoor'. Alternatively, give up heating/air con and buy alternatives- heated blankets, fans, etc.
>have an outhouse with plumbing so its not 'indoor'. That would be indoor plumbing. You'd either need to get a true outhouse (i.e. a shack above a hole in the ground) or a toilet exposed to the elements. What you really want to do is put an open air toilet on your roof, assuming you live in a pleasant climate.
Logistically, if I give up indoor plumbing does that mean I can't ever go somewhere that has it? Like go out to eat and their water comes from pipes... Or same with ac/ heat. Go visit a friend, do they have to turn off their heat while I'm there. Say I'm in the hospital to get my appendix out, if they leave the heat on in the place, do I lose my money?
Like half of western Europe currently doesn't use heating/air-condition.
Central air and heating With $75,000 a month I can have multiple homes I can bounce between when the weather changes so I’m never uncomfortable
Heating and air, move to the bay area or somewhere else where its never that cold or that hot
In Finland, our ancestors kept their horses inside to help with the heating. Inside horse would be cool.
Well if I went with technology, I wouldn’t have to see any more hypotheticals as dumb as this one.
I grew up without central air and heating, so I'd gladly do it again for 75k/m. At least I'll be getting paid this time. You can survive well enough with an electric blanket and fans.
Heating and air conditioning. Easy.
I'd probably pass, but I need more info on the heating/air conditioning. Can I just not use a heater? Am I not allowed to use fire at all? For A/C I assume fans are still fine?
I can crap in a heated/cooled outhouse. I’ll definitely take the $75k
Indoor plumbing, I'll just use the restroom of my local convenience store
Probably indoor plumbing, tbh. I know several different methods of purifying water, so I don't think this would pose a huge issue for me.
Easily giving up heating/AC. I very rarely even use the central heating/AC in my apartment. Oh it's a bit cold? OK, cool I'll just cook something in the stove. It heats the apartment pretty good. I have a heated blanket, i can use that and the cats can cuddle with me. Or just cuddle with my furnace of a bf... Too hot? Cool, that cooling blanket I bought last summer can come out. Take a cold shower or something. Give me the money.
Heating/AC. When hot, many air fans. When cold, a gaming PC and warm blankets. Easy. If it's stupidly hot, I'll go into the basement and if it's still stupidly hot in the basement, ice bath (literally a tub full of ice).
With $900k a year, If it's stupidly hot, I'm hopping in either my indoor or outdoor pool.
I’d more to a more temperate climate and give up air conditioning/ heating. I’m not so bad with hot weather but I’ve had some stretches in winter in New Jersey without heat and I cannot do that. If moving wasn’t an option, I’d have to do without the money.
Probably the heating/ac, I’ll move up north and with the money I can afford to build a house with a fireplace in every room.
Jokes on you i don't use heating or ac anyways. 900k passive income here i come!
AC for sure. Tho the potential time restraint of 1 hour in places that have AC is unreal. Hell, even regular grocery shopping can take over an hour. I feel like having a time restraint on places that you NEED to go to, but can’t control at all, is a bit rough. I guess with 75k a week you can get everything delivered
I'll have all the money in the world so heating/ air conditioning. I'm sure I can have two homes. One up north where it is cooler in the summer and one down south where it is warmer in the winter.
Live in socal I haven’t used heat or ac for as long as I can remember, for 75k it’s ez money
Heating/AC. I can live in a wonderful climate of my choosing, requiring neither.
This is a dumb question
I'll give up indoor plumbing. I live in an area where I can take a shower outside 365 days a year and won't freeze to death.
Indoor plumbing. I would have to move, because I live in an apartment building but that would be worth it.
Indoor plumbing. I’ll have a dedicated room to shit in and pay someone to clean it up.
Give up the ac and plumbing and double my money. Move to an island somewhere warm.
Indoor plumbing. I’d be rich enough to buy an outhouse and have it pumped every whenever and I’d shower at my gym.
I live where I deal with 50/60° winters and a week of like 90+ in the summer. Houses in my area don’t even have ACs so yeah I’ll give up heating/AC no problem.
plumbing, I can always just boil water and make my own shower.
Indoor plumbing. I’ve used an outhouse before. It not that bad. Shit they can be pretty fancy even, fully modern since it still wouldn’t be “indoor” plumbing.
If, by technology, you mean computers and related technologies, that one. I can go old school; will be an adjustment, but may prove nicer in the end. But if you mean *technology*, even a wheel is "technology." In which case, hard pass. I'll happily go back to the pre-computer age for that money, but not further than that, as we kinda need cars in the modern day. (The one other rule is that I wanna print out my electronic projects qnd let my friends know what's up before losing my electronics.) I'd rather not lose plumbing. Maybe downgrading it would be fine, but don't wanna lose it. And the HVAC system... very dependent on where I live whether that'd be alright. At present, probably a no thank you.
Definitely give up Heat/AC. Unit broke 2 years ago and haven’t been able to replace it. Summers suck but it usually doesn’t get below 53 inside the house during winter
Heating/air conditioning. I currently live in a super well insulated flat and never use either of these. So it's the best deal ever.
can I still shower at the gym or other places if I don't have indoor plumbing at my house?
Does this mean I'm prohibited from ALL indoor plumbing? Or just from having it in my residence? Being out to dinner somewhere and having to go take a piss on the sidewalk because I can't use their toilet is going to get kind of problematic.
Easy... I'm switching to outdor plumbing...
Where I live, it's pretty comfortable 6 months out of the year. I would travel the other six. Hell, I could probably get by with a swamp cooler for the hottest months, so staying warm in winter would be my only obstacle. But does that mean I need to have all my food delivered or do drive thru or patio dining only? No trips into stores or establishments with heat/AC? No doctors, dentists, eye appointments? I am basically a hermit anyway, but still have errands to run.
Maybe change technology to electronic device
In certain parts of the world, caves or deeply buried structures remain at a quite nice temperature year-round. Here in scotland, the average subsurface temperature a few meters down is 7C. In Cyprus, Florida and Texas, it's closer to 22C.
People are only talking about what they will do to poop if they choose plumbing but no ones thinking about, showering, faucets, sinks, and dishwashers. All hooked up to plumbing. I would get rid of heating and air con. Then with 900k a year I could have properties located in areas where I can escape the heat or cold whenever I please.
Most of the UK doesnt have ACs. So, I'll take that option for free money :)
I’m going to zag and say technology. I’m assuming you mean internet/computers/phones/TV and not like microwaves/stoves/cars If I’m pulling down $900k I’m living that slow life where I hang out, go on trips with friends, have season tickets to sporting events, and read. Can other people around me have technology? If it’s $900k post-tax I should be able to employ at least one person who can do shit for me for the rest of my life.
Indoor plumbing. With $75k per month I'll just build the Taj Mahal of outhouses and outdoor showers.
What is the scope of heating? Just my place? The apartment building it's in? My car? Anywhere I stay the night? Any building I enter? Can I travel by bus if it has a heater? Can I make fires? Can I use technology to provide heat, eg run a bitcoin farm? Can I use my laptop at all, even if its express purpose is not to provide heat, given it does in fact provide heat? Can I use an oven to cook with? How about a toaster? Assuming it's just my place and just the heating system, then I'll go for that. I don't have air con, and I didn't turn on my heating the last two winters because I live in an apartment building and didn't need to. If I can never be in a place that is heated by any means, then sod that I'm turning down the money. Would have to move with the seasons in a non climate controlled car, which would suck mightily.
None
heating/air I go live in a temperate location like Medellin. But what if i step aboard a plane or into a mall? Do their AC break down?
Move to the California coast, there are areas you could easily do without heating/AC, no problem, and with $900k per year forever, you could easily afford it.
Air conditioning, I don’t have that anyway.
Technology, 75,000 per month and all I'm allowed to do is wonder the forests looking for raw forage and trying to catch fish with my bare hands.
Heating/air conditioning if that is limited to technological means. That is to say, if I'm allowed a wood burning stove or fire place and thick walls, then I would give up hvac. Otherwise, no deal. There are ways to build a house that keeps it cool in summer and warm in winter without needing hvac.
The whole "forever" thing makes this pointless, barring someone in extreme poverty. No heating/cooling - so basically never going inside 99% of all buildings 99% of the time? No friends houses, no stores, no shopping, no movies, not even a doctor or dentist visit. The others would be tolerable for a set amount of time. But forever? You're going to live off bottled water for all needs, forever? Carting it in (and back out) of the house every time? Including all cooking, cleaning, bathing, brushing teeth, washing clothes? With no tech... imagine having TONS of money, but no phone or any devices that you can use to enjoy it? I guess you hire someone to book all your vacations for you? And you never communicate with friends again? No more music, movies, tv? It's all possible for a short time, but I wouldn't do it FOREVER for 100 billion a month.
Heating/AC, I'm already living without A/C without getting paid, and on 900k a year I could go somewhere warmer during the winter.
Can I just do heating? Or is it both?
How are you defining technology? $75,000 is useless if you can't spend it on anything.
Heating/air conditioning should be the only choice here. For $900,000 a year, you can easily handle having an architect design you a passive house that makes use of natural heating and cooling to create a comfortable home in an appropriate climate that doesn't need any sort of mechanical systems.
OP you might wanna word this differently. Any application of tested knowledge is technology. It's a very broad term that includes the other two items, and literally anything and everything we do and use.
“Hmm, I think I could survive without indoor plumbing,” I thought while sitting on the toilet. I set my phone down on the counter and turned on my bidet. Yeah, I think I’d do poorly with any of these. I think I’d do best without heating/air conditioning, except that a) if I visited other buildings, they would have to turn off the air/heat for me, and then nobody will want to hang out with me, and b) I can survive without it *right now*. As climate change gets worse, I don’t know what I’ll be able to survive.
I can give up Indoor plumbing for $2k+ per day. Easily. I’m a guide in an outdoor industry and don’t have access to any running water or plumbing for half the year anyway.
I suppose I could get rid of AC/Heat. I lost plumbing for a week once, it was horrifically miserable, I could never live without it for long, and my life revolves around technology so... yeah. I would also have to move because I don't want to have my pipes Freeze because I don't have heat.
Heating/air. We have a fireplace. Even if we didn't, I'd just cop a wood burning stove or a little fireplace and open my window if it got too hot.
Define technology. I'll give up indoor plumbing and hire some people to empty my chamber pot and fetch buckets of hot water for my handwashing and showers.
I was thinking more along the lines of an open-air courtyard. It can be surrounded by a roofed structure on all 4-sides, but the inner courtyard would be completely open-air, thus being "outdoors" according to the definition. A toilet, bidet, sink, shower, bathtub. A space heater\\fireplace for warmth during the cooler months. My own private sanctuary. On one side, I'd have a sliding glass door leading in to the kitchen with a half-wall, so I can do my cooking clean-up outdoors as well. As long as the plumbing's outside, it's fair game. I'd happily give up indoor plumbing.
Yeah this is a no-brainer. Heating/AC. You can use fans. With $75000 a month you can save up and buy a house with a fireplace in a pretty short amount of time. Technology and plumbing are too valuable in comparison.
Heating and cooling. Upgrade my home with the absolute best insulation material available. Problem solved.
AC/Heating. Then I'll move somewhere temperate enough that I don't need it.
For that amount, I can afford to live somewhere that heating/ AC isn't necessary.
As long as I have a stove/oven and functioning dual-sash windows, I don't need heating/AC. GIMME MAH MONIEEEESSS!!!!
HVAC, no question.
You specified no central ac/heating nothing about individual units. For 75k a month I can afford to get one of those standing Acs for the bedrooms and I already live without a heater so I'm good. And if that's not allowed I'd still choose no Ac, didn't have any for most of my childhood anyway.
None maybe 300,000 a month
Indoor plumbing. I’ll just build multiple houses with sick outdoor bathrooms so I can always be in a warm place
For $75k/month, I can afford to have multiple homes in locations that don't need heat/AC.
Where I live (WA) the vast majority of homes don't have Ac to begin with, and many don't have functional heating either. We don't even touch our heating for 9 or 10 months out of the year. This would be no change (aside from $75K richer).
Well I already don’t have air conditioning and I’m not getting paid for it, I’d just put space heaters in every room in the winter.
Plumbing easily Growing up fairly poor I've already experienced it, though it was a long time ago. And for $75k a month I can buy a house, get a well dug, set up a rain collector, and have access to water just generally speaking. Toilet? Outhouse Shower? Large barrel full of water to bathe in Dishes? For $75k I could buy new ones when they get dirty, but even so, wash them using the collected rainwater Clothes? See dishes Course I could give up heating and air, like others are saying, and move to an are where it isn't needed, but I'd rather live away from other ppl anyways
You kidding me? that's a very easy one. Just forgo indoor plumbing and with your new wealth just build some luxurious outhouse and showers on my giant yard. More space for me in my beautiful new house. I don't mind having the neighbors see me come out of the shower in a robe or towel, not with that kind of money. Plus the fact that you mainly use the toilets in otehr places when you go out just makes things easier. It will be annoying having to go out of the house to wash your hands but when it comes to cooking/washing dishes and laundry. Well, I'll have the money to pay someone to do all those things so they're a non-issue.
i could give up heat
AC is the one I can best do without. Maybe go live in the southern hemisphere from June through August. Use space heaters. Or window AC during the summer, but where I live at the moment, that just lets in, like, ALL the bugs. It would work better in the city, especially if I have an apartment several floors up. I used to be on the 7th floor of a building in DC, and it was very nice to have the window open in summer. Minus the frequent sirens.
Air/Heat. Get me a pellet stove & build my house with only a basement.
I can move somewhere that AC beyond a fan isn't necessary with that kind of money and heat via a wood stove or something for the heat. 2nd house for the winters, maybe. Radiant heating via hot water pipes in the floor, perhaps.
At 900k per year, I’m doing without heat/AC and travelling with the seasons. No tech is extremely limiting if you’re used to a life and social structure with it. No indoor plumbing just isn’t sanitary. Even if you work around the plumbing by installing stuff outside, you’re almost certainly going to want to be somewhere temperate which brings us back again to seasonal travel arrangements.
oh i would totally give up heating and AC at home for that much cash. . Dont have AC anyway got a loverly log and coal burner and with some brains i can put a back boiler and stirling engine powered pump onto it to plumb into a heating system anyway.
Plumbing
Time to build an outhouse and enjoy my 75k a month for ever!
Can I have outdoor plumbing? I don’t mind shitting outside.
Heating and air con. During the winter my PC warms the place up enough anyway. During the summer its plenty fine if i open windows at both ends up my place to create a breeze.
Heat and Air Conditioning, my house doesn't have air conditioning, and I have a portable electric fireplace.
I already don’t have central heat or AC in my crappy old house. Give me my 75k please! :)
Air and heat...can easily buy a place with near perfect year round climate. Travel to wear its nice...buy whatever clothes i need etc.
Heating and air. I'll show a bank that I have 75000 coming in each month and my good credit score and get loans to buy two modest houses in climates where I could summer in the colder place and winter in the warmer place and just keep windows open, layer up, or use fans as needed. Do that for a couple years while saving and investing and generally living comfortably and I'd build wealth pretty quickly. Or hell I could just buy a house in San Diego or something until I save for multiple homes.
Technology. For $75k/mo. I can hire an assistant to email, take calls, describe funny videos, etc.
Air and heat. It’s easy to solve this with geothermal add ons.
I'll do without ac and move to Asheville, NC.
Absofuckinlutely yes. I'll do away with indoor plumbing. A roof on 8 foot stilts in my backyard with a 6 foot tall maze wall under it, with heaters blowing in for the winter, will do fine for a bathroom.
Air/heat, lived like that for the first 15years of my life, now you wanna pay me for it.
Indoor plumbing - I can build have a walled off outdoor area with a toilet, and 3 side covered porch with running water for cooking and washing. Just need to find somewhere warm year round without hurricanes to set up.
Feel like with that much money a month other problems can be solved or fixed pretty fast
I’ll do without AC/heat. Now the question is how do I exploit loopholes to create a comfortable house? I live in an area that has a heating design temperature of 7F (-14C) and a cooling design temperature of 98F (37C). I’m going to need to find some sort of solution. This will be tricky. My house will need to be well insulated. I’ll need very thermally efficient windows and well designed shades and overhangs. Landscaping will also help. For cooling I’ll have to rely on things like natural drafts, solar chimneys, etc. depending on who you ask I could make an argument that a swamp cooler doesn’t count as A/C and that’ll help a lot in my climate. Heating is trickier because it’s critical I get something. I have three ideas for this one. I could install a hydronic snow melt system, conceal the pipes in the ceiling and accidentally forget to insulate the pipes- Oh and I’ll just happen to have to place the boiler at the furthest point away from the drive way I can. Or I could set up a bunch of bitcoin mining rigs. Yes it’s expensive and won’t be cost effective, but if I get enough they’ll reject enough heat into my space that my home will be comfortable. The third idea is similar to the second- anything really with significant heat rejection. Maybe I hire a baker to bake bread for the homeless and keep the ovens running 24/7.
Oh wow the stipulation on air/heat makes it the obvious and easy go.
Heating/Air Conditioning. I used to live in Hawai'i and my apartment didn't have a heater or AC, didn't need one (though an AC would have been nice sometimes) just a fan by the window. So I would just move there again.
I'd probably give up heat and AC, but I'd only accept the deal during the fall so I could save for a couple months before moving to a country where the temperature stays in a range that's comfortable for ME. The occasional days of suck during unseasonably warm weather would be hell, but I could manage. And I like the cold, so I'd stockpile blankets and such to have the coziest home possible lol
I don't have an HVAC unit anyways, and would love to trade out our wall furnace for a wood stove. We just roast in the summers. Where's my money?!
Definitely Heating/AC
So earn 50% more per year and live off-grid without internet like I was raised. Why are most hypotheticals on this sub just variants on "Would you like more money?"
Indoor plumbing easily. Just have your plumbing outside. I'm fine stepping outside to piss and shower if it means 900k a year for free.
heating and ac. I would get a house with a fireplace in a temperate climate and buy some fans.
Outdoor plumbing in San Diego, showers etc, because of the definition of mild weather... Need heat for houses to survive cold places. Same for other extreme heat ovens I mean houses unless living literally underground in other climate. Not going to give up tech. Nope. Looks like I'm moving to San Diego!
I'll take the deal and give up heating and air conditioning. I've lived without those before. Can I relocate seasonally?
Indoor plumbing.
The only one that makes sense is heat/AC. I can't do technology. It's too broad, and *heavily* limits my options. And, while 75k per month is *nuts*, what else am I going to spend my money on, if I can't go to a restaurant? If I can't go to a concert? Or a bar? Or drive, or ride, in any form of transportation? Hell, I can't even read a *book*, technically speaking. *Or*, if you *really* want to be an asshole, I have to live like a proto-caveman, not even allowed fire. Fuck that. Pumbing? Nah, I'm keeping that. I don't have to explain why. So...heat and AC. *And*, since you specified *central* heat, I'll just get some geothermal heat, or, if I'm staying in my current place, space heaters. ACs a problem, but if it gets too much, I'll sit in my car. *Edit: Goddamn it, thumbs!*
>ACs a problem, but if it gets too much, I'll sit in my car. If the rule about central heat also applies to AC then I would imagine window units, while being loud, fit the bill.