Honestly I’m supposed to be looking for a new place, but now I’m just looking at castles like, yeah I could make this work.
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The catch is that they're in bumfuck nowhere, really expensive to heat/cool, and just generally not well suited to modern lifestyles as well as being uncomfortable to live in in general.
It's designed with surviving attack as the primary purpose, everything else is secondary. Sure, it's luxurious by medieval standards, but any home up to code in the first world is science fiction levels of luxurious by those standards. Indoor plumbing, heating that hits every room, smokeless lighting, cooling, wall to wall carpeting, smokeless cooking… all luxuries you better hope you can install at all, though you probably can't do it great, and definitely can't do it inconspicuously.
And that's not even hitting on the "too big home" problem. People can manage a bigger house than they need, sure, but only to a point. Even a late 20th century mansion is too much for a person who can't burn a ton of money heating such a large building and doesn't have servants to do the various tasks associated with such a large home. Just think of all the cleaning required.
Now if you've got a decently large polycule/commune/family where everyone is down to do a lot of chores and doesn't mind not having running water, then this is for you. Hopefully you've got an electrician in there because I can't imagine it's cheap to have someone safely wire a house with a stone interior, especially to the standards most people want.
These places are also cons because you can only use local labor. You can't even DIY it, you can't bring in other guys from elsewhere in the same county. You must hire Guido and his cousin Antonio for all of it. It's baked into the contract.
Wiring a stone building would be reasonably easy, you'd just have to run everything in conduit.
Okay so we've all heard of the transgender ranch. Who's gonna start a transgender castle‽
You're better off buying a monetary/convent or a failed university. Modern ones have modern amenities and they're still relatively cheap because middle of nowhere and hard to repurpose. They're definitely more expensive than free, but I place a lot of value on indoor plumbing.
Yeah a friend was looking into making a trans commune a few years ago. Another option was abandoned elementary/high schools, but they don't really conduct themselves to residence well.
The convents were actually tempting, they're a nice middle ground between castles and going full Sanyasin and building a commune from scratch with single family housing.
I've never heard of the trans ranch though
The ranches are for the puppy variety of trans folk (and other precious critters of course).
I've always wanted to live in an old-fashioned church.
Stone doesnt really burn, so as electrical goes, its a pretty nice medium. You just need to have the conduit exposed on the wall to do it cheaply.
Plumb it similarly. Pipes along the wall. Could be nice but heating and cooling could get complicated fast.