Mansionmania Tournament: Round 1, Heat 8
 

Mansionmania continues. I'm going to show you the most expensive homes in every state and a few territories, with a few extras thrown in from the largest states to get the tourney up to 64. It'll be a single-elimination tournament.

You will choose among each pair of houses with the following assumptions:

• The purchase price for you is $0.
• All maintenance, utilities, property taxes, and cleaning is included.
• You must live in the home for the rest of your life.
• You can't travel more than 100 miles from home (via google maps drive time) other than 1 two-week vacation each year.
• You get $250,000 per year as a living allowance
• You get an additional living allowance at the cheaper home, which will be valued at 1% of any cost difference annually. I will note this amount in the poll.
• You get the furnishings. If unfurnished, you get an allowance that will give you mid-grade furniture in every room.
• You get any vehicles in the garage. But only the garage - nothing parked outside.

I encourage you to click on the maps in the listings to see the general location and neighborhood.

Also, I will only enter contestants if they have a sufficient number of photos to judge, as determined by me.

Your entries in this heat are:

West Virginia:

https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...1_M98462-49944

Wyoming:

https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...1_M88490-96176

This is bugeater's house that started my interest in the tournament.

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads

I feel like the West Virginia house was decorated by 4 different people with 4 vastly different views on how a mansion should be designed.... and 3 of them were born blind.

And of course the Wyoming mansion is what started it all.

Easily Wyoming for me.

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This is a really, really easy one for me.

I don't understand why West Virginia is so expensive. It's not in a great location, the house isn't that notable, and the interior design makes me cringe. I hope they didn't pay a designer for that. I'd spend a lot of my stipend making the interior not drive me crazy.

Wyoming has some wall finishes that I don't like, but that's kind of the only notable fix that I'd do. It's a gorgeous setting and Jackson is a pleasant little town. I'm not getting to any big city amenities there, but I can live with that.

This is my easiest decision of the tournament other than maybe that California/Mississippi matchup earlier.

Heh. Beat me to it on the design. What's up with that? I feel like maybe the homeowner did the design herself and had no eye for it at all.

WY in a landslide. That WV house is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen, and the stipend isn't enough to gut it. The WY house is incredible, plus those views. Committing to a pretty solitary life there, but between the bar and the golf simulator, I could entertain myself in the winter.

Big sky country should always win over the feel of Deliverance.

Jackson is awesome but full of rich west coast asshats. WV got the nod

I think some of them are from Texas if that helps.

Many runner ups in other rounds I’d take over these two. 65 mil for only 55 acres in WY? No stocked ponds, no blue ribbon trout stream or that much land to hunt game?

Someone needs to tell WV that less is sometimes more.

I would echo Bearcat's comment on the WV house design. Most of the wallpaper is nausea inducing.
Both houses seem to have a well stocked wine collection.
I'm going with Wyoming (seems to expensive, but I'm not paying)

Can't believe I forgot about Jackson Hole being right there, which puts it even higher - one of the best resorts in the US, and can go during the week to avoid the crowds. WY for the win.

Yeah, it's one thing to say you want different vibes for different rooms, or completely different designs.... but, not only did they go that route, most rooms look awful as well. The bad/outdated wallpaper, the color choice of the pink room, etc.

There was one bedroom in all of that which was surprisingly adequate, plus one of the bathrooms.

And for 10k sq ft, it just doesn't look roomy at all... partly because of all the shit they have in each room, but besides the kitchen, most rooms seem cramped.

I'll take the asshats vs the hillbillies of WV.

That Wyoming house looks incredible.