/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21394954]

How to move into a /lit/ place like a loft in an old Austro-Hungarian building in Budapest, or a medieval tower in Tuscany or a lighthouse in Ireland, or anything interesting like that, when it's all so incredibly expensive? Do you really have to be intergenerationally wealthy to live even a humblest /lit/ lifestyle?

[Anonymous No.21394985]

>>21394954
Budapest is not so expensive, and its beautiful.

[Anonymous No.21394987]

>>21394954
This can be achieved in practically any apartment if you know how to use your hands. Building your own library might seem like an impossible job, it’s not. Buy/rent an apartment, strip it bare and start again. If you invest enough time and the money for raw materials, you can make your own library/lounge/loft

[Anonymous No.21394995]

>>21394987
This. Just build your own /lit/ cave wherever you live. This way it also has whatever visual aesthetic you want it to have.

[Anonymous No.21395008]

>>21394985
>>Budapest is not so expensive
It's almost 3.5k euros per sqm so for a decently sized apartment you need like 350k lmfao. How is that not expensive, the average salary is 900 euros. That's less than $1k.

[Anonymous No.21395013]

>>21394987
The question is how the fuck do you get the money for it, in the old days practically everyone had access to such accommodations for peanuts, now an old dilapidated place like that costs like it's in fucking Trump Tower and is inaccessible unless you're in modern aristocracy.

[Anonymous No.21395015]

>>21394954
o wat i'd give for garret in my name,
with drafty winds that buffeted my frame
so's i could lead the limelight of the pen
a flashing streak none ever see again
pyre brillian flame he struggle to subdue
til errant gust squirting through a flue
should lay me to my ashen sleepin dead
athen no thought leakenin from me head

[Anonymous No.21395025]

>>21395015
Exactly, it used to be poverty tier.

[Anonymous No.21395095]

>>21394995
This. Just shape your own place.
However, a rich author friend of mine lived in an actual castle (it even had a water-filled moat!) once. That was pretty kino. He didn't have the whole castle though, just a few rooms. Still kino.

[Anonymous No.21395121]

>>21395095
And how did he get rich?

[Anonymous No.21395130]

What a retarded thread

[Anonymous No.21395132]

By drawing comics and writing books. His parents were piss poor so it wasn't generational wealth. But he's definitely the exception.

[Anonymous No.21395137]

>>21395132
Reply to >>21395121 of course

[Anonymous No.21395153]

>>21394954
>when it's all so incredibly expensive
There are several places in Tuscany and other regions of Italy - small villages - where you can buy a house for 1 euro on the promise that you restore it somewhat. These are all in ghost towns far from modern centralized urban hubs.

No idea about Budapest, but Hungary is cheap as fuck if you're western European. Ireland is an entirely different story.

[Anonymous No.21395160]

>>21395132
>By drawing comics and writing books
You mean by having people in his life who arranged for him to get enormous amounts of money for it.

[Anonymous No.21395166]

>>21395160
>no one has ever had any succes except for through unjust nepotism
I mean suit yourself anon, live by whatever beliefs you find best, but it just seems kinda dumb.

[Anonymous No.21395167]

>>21395153
>where you can buy a house for 1 euro on the promise that you restore it somewhat.
That's retarded Youtube clickbait. You have to invest a shitload of money into renovating it (and you can't buy it unless you do that), and you have to do it according to strict architectural codes which means you have to hire expensive local experts that they provide you and so on.

Also, they tend to have migrant centers nearby because they're in the middle of nowhere where no one lives anymore so you get roaming packs of you know who occasionally. Can't own a gun to protect yourself of course.

[Anonymous No.21395170]

>>21395160
There were people who made even more money with his works than he made, yes. That's how it always is.