Originally Posted by
Adam Strange
What a great post! I really enjoyed looking at the various houses, and comparing them to what I like.
FWIW, my enneagram typing is 8w7, 3w2, 6w7, and I would rank the houses above as follows (if price were no object, of course):
First, the "Yes"s:
7w8 - OK, I'll take it. Where do I sign?
7w6 - Nice courtyard, nice house. Maybe a bit ostentatious, but if it were hidden on a cul-de-sac, might not be bad. More for my enjoyment of it's beauty than anything else.
6w7 - This would actually be pretty nice for a second house on a ten acre wooded lot.
2w1 - This could go on the wooded lot if it is on a hill overlooking a river.
6w5 - This is an occasional-use cottage. Hopefully you can time-share it with some other people, and work out a schedule for it use.
Next, the not horrible, but not really my choice.
8w7 - Nice clean lines and the opportunity for adventure (although a sailboat would be better), but much too high maintenance costs.
1w2 - If I were a professor, maybe. But I'm not, so no.
1w9 - Easy to clean, but too exposed and a bit too spare.
2w3 - Nice for a two-week vacation house, but I would not want to live there all the time.
Then there's the "inherited this from your grandmother's crazy sister, and can't sell it because no insulation, bad heating, lead plumbing, primitive electrical, wood rotting, stone in disrepair, roof leaks, wallpaper is peeling, I think something has died in one of the walls, but the odor comes and goes, etc."
8w9 - see above.
The Grandiose:
3w4 - won the lottery, will be broke in two years.
3w2 - won the lottery, will be dead in two years.
The weird and depressed:
4w3 - I am still able to make a living by selling my uncle's collection of famous people's clothing bits.
4w5 - I am waiting for the statute of limitations to run out on selling looted Nazi artworks.
And the mentally ill:
9w1 - My line of Patagonian rain forest health products is doing better than I ever expected.
9w8 - Drugs. Psychedelics and hallucinogens. You want 'em, I've got 'em. I give them away for free. All you want, man. Bring your friends around. Know any chicks?