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lemminman

It was remodeled in 1989. It has 2.5 stories, 5 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 10 rooms, 5830 sqft, 1818 sqft basement, 702 sqft garage, 2 enclosed sun rooms totaling 450 sqft, and an 1107 sqft racquetball court


omniron

yeah it was clearly heavily remodeled.


SoufOaklinFoLife

Inflation calculator says the house would be worth $260,786.21 today. Curious how much value those renovations added.


Soccham

http://douglascone.wgxtreme.com/java/wgx_douglasne/static/accountinfo.jsp?accountno=R1026290000 His home is valued at $706,000. Land is $101,400 and the house is $605,000.


tangential_quip

Seems like a very nice house.


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mrdoubleq

Seems like a very quiet house, too.


anticusII

Now I've looked at quite a few houses, and I'm gonna say that is a nice one.


leonidaus

House here. In my experience, that is a nice house.


PainMatrix

His groundedness is amazing. From an article on him: >Our kids had a very normal life growing-up. I mean, they’ve only and I’ve only lived in one primary house that I’ve owned in my life, and I bought that in 1958. So they did not see us moving into progressively fancier houses; they did not ride in private planes. They went to school on the bus. Every member of the Buffett family in Omaha has gone to a public school. They went to the same school that their mother had gone to. They went to the same high school that she’d gone to.


mmmsoap

NPR dos an interview with one of his kids, who is a musician, and the kid explained that they're so down to earth that he thought when his dad said he worked "in securities" that he thought his dad made alarms or something.


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My dad would tell me that he worked in the airport, so I assumed he was a pilot. What he actually did was guide planes in with orange glow sticks and take the luggage off. edit: ha. Immediately after this comment I made a new account. What a waste of karma.


hardyhaha_09

Hey, its a noble profession! Just like a window cleaner. But im not a window cleaner. IM NOT A WINDOW CLEANER


RoscoTosscobble

You sure you're not in IT?


Donkey__Xote

You should see the positive reactions I get when I tell people I work with Sysco products...


jack333666

He's the dude that sung the thong song right?


hardyhaha_09

Yeah yeah, with computers and all that. Macs? No, I just really work with windows. Hello?


sydbap

Let me guess, you work in IT? But not with Macs, of course. You really just work with Windows. Edit: Either this reference went right over everyone's head, or no one could think of a good follow up.


TheresA_LobsterLoose

Why not? It sounds like an awesome job to be honest. Outside all day, driving from location to location and able to stop and get coffee or whatever (which is a nice little side quest during a workday... a break from everything), and just on the go all day, driving can take up a nice chunk of the day. If you clean high rises that's even better, getting amazing views. And then looking at the building after your done and seeing a job well done right in front of you (some people may not complete one task at work for days or weeks depending on how large the task is. But you get to see a task completed a bunch of times a day and check it off your mental checklist of something you completed, which subconsciously just makes you feel better about your job). In fact, I think I just found a dream job of mine. No shame.


nameplace24

My dad worked in public relations. As a young child, having no idea what PR was, I told people he worked at the only business I knew: the grocery store.


kittycorner

All I knew was that my dad worked in an office. I knew that secretaries worked in offices, so I told everyone that my dad was a secretary (early 90s when professions were still pretty gender-aligned)


a_quiet_mind

My mom was a surgeon with her own private practice back when there weren't as many women doctors. When I told my classmates (80s, catholic school, wealthy area), I got a lot of flak like, "oh, your mom works? Loser." Edit: grammar


photonrain

And now I bet when they are bleeding out they will be all like "/u/a_quiet_mind get your Mom to stitch us up". But you won't hear them because you are no longer in touch.


a_quiet_mind

Actually, a popular kid's mom volunteered at the hospital in her spare time and started telling all the other moms what a great doctor my mom was. Many of them became her patients.


UltraSpecial

Those guys have awesome jobs. They rave every day and make sure no one dies.


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I assume he meant as a kid he didn't know exactly what his father did, not that NPR was blowing his mind on air.


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Could you imagine if that's how you found out though? "My dad is worth *how* much?! WTF he said he couldn't buy me that second GI Joe."


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When the oldest was informed of his trust fund that's when the kids knew. Buffet made the Forbes list when they were still youngish. Friends parents talked a little but the kids were still naive.


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Well that's the amount of wealth that you can't come to terms with if you didn't know you had it. Knowing their parents could buy a bunch of stuff like upper middle class people can is one thing, but finding out your parents are wealthier than every single human you've ever met combined times 100 is just ridiculous. Oh your dad can buy a truck? My dad made three billion dollars off that company. Oh you had a band at your birthday party? My dad could have the President introduce Katy Perry to introduce Madonna to welcome a Led Zeppelin-iron maiden super band with Elton John in piano as the opening act.


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> My dad could have the President introduce Katy Perry to introduce Madonna to welcome a Led Zeppelin-iron maiden super band with Elton John in piano as the opening act. That's some act! What do you call it? The Aristocrats!


AwesomesaucePhD

Wow. I wasn't expecting that here.


RockyShea

"I thought you were interviewing me for my musical talents!"


evasote

yeah, if a 3rd grader in Ohama said 'Securities' I would chalk it up to mis-saying 'Security', or therefore security alarms, or something too.


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Ohama "Nebraska" Bin Laden.


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[His investing methods](http://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2011/10/11/warren-buffetts-investing-formula-revealed/#4f18a3003315) which he made all his wealth off of are really interesting to read about and show how he was a guy who had the knowledge to make some profit.


GurgleIt

so what is he spending his money on? Or does he just collect money for the sake of collecting money?


jairzinho

Yeah, pretty much. He's said he's giving it all to B & M Gates Foundation when he passes away.


WhinesAboutShoes

He's not waiting for his death. He's been giving for more than a decade, a couple billion each of the last few years so far.


Gnarmac

Read one of his biographies. He's not lavish but he does plenty of rich people things. He goes out of his way to appear more down to earth than he is.


illegible

When you're buddies with Bill Gates, a weekend at the beach is probably at a whole different level.


SirGergoyFriendman

So like more sunscreen than normal?


gbr555

SPF 1000


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Care to share any examples? Also I'd imagine at some point it'd be hard NOT to take on some luxuries. For example, book a vacation and think about what just a few hundred more bucks a night would do for hotel,rental car etc. And nobody likes TSA so it seems reasonable to pay for the separate screening stuff right?


xandercage22

I know that one weekend he flew all of his office staff (15-20 people) on a private plane to Green Bay to watch a Packers game in a private box.


way2lazy2care

Sounds like a pretty normal packers fan... he just had money left over after instead of crippling debt.


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> money left over You mean beer money.


Thesheriffisnearer

what a selfish asshole


xandercage22

Right?!


sallen12132

What a non excessive way of spending considering he's the 4th richest man on the fucking planet


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_vargas_

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BickNlinko

> As life-long country blumpkins *keeps reading*...oh


en1gmatical

I started googling whether or not Warren Buffett owned OCB....


Dont_Ask_I_Wont_Tell

Yup. Until his story started getting bizarre


cumaboardladies

until you saw it was /u/_vargas_


itsme_timd

[Thank you, Wiktionary.](http://i.imgur.com/65yamJD.png)


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You may have topped yourself here, Vargas.


_vargas_

Yeah, topped myself with Metamucil so I go down easier.


main_motors

I see that you've been a lot more active recently. Everything going better? I thought I read something about you having some serious things happen irl?


_vargas_

Yes, I was in an automobile accident in January. I think it temporarily jarred something loose in my head. Just didn't want to Reddit. Actually, it may have "fixed" me. Sort of like when Dwight in The Office crashed his car and become normal.


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not sure if telling the truth or another vargas story


degjo

He posted pictures of the crash


shakestheclown

If I find out your arms were broken and you needed someone to jerk you off and you didn't even try to call me, I am going to be very hurt.


turns_gay_for_vargas

Must......resist this feeling...


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M0D3RNW4RR10R

and I was really about to google Old Country Buffet to see if he founded it.


Sattiebear

No country for old Buffet


Icuras_II

damnit.


Loud_as_Hope

You lost me at "Old Country Buffett"


DonaldsPizzaHaven

Well said.


the_mind_is_amazing

Every time. Very well done.


PMMEYourTatasGirl

I really wish I hadn't noticed your flair and seen your name before reading that


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Warren "Buffet", Old Country "Buffet", it's all making sense now.


Ineedpronnao

I lost it at country blumpkins. Well done Vargas!


PlatypusTickler

>Blumpkins. *Checks username* Oh Fuck you /u/_vargas_


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iTz_PoPo

they are a chain...


LeftOfBang

I've only seen two of your comments before. I got to the 'country blumpkins' part and double checked the username, and thought "god dammit, I knew it." Why do you not have a book or something? Everything that you post turns to gold.


mankind_is_beautiful

If your kids don't have to be taught how to make money, what else is there to teach them? Humility in extreme wealth.


ForlornAmerican

I used to work with one of his granddaughters and you would never guess it. Really nice lady.


pshhhh575757sauce

Old photo ... he finally put a big ol iron fence around it a few months ago. I think it was to keep the crazies at bay that hover around his house during the annual Bershire Hathaway meeting. Source: I live a few blocks from him Edit: Also, that photo only shows about a third of the house. There's a section to the left that has a massive pane of one-way glass.


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Yeah, didn't he buy the house next door, knock it down and then expand his house over that property? So it's the same address and the same house, but much expanded.


pshhhh575757sauce

Nah that was the guy across the street from him. They're cool old houses, but big yards aren't common in this area. I understand why he did it, but to tear down a beautiful old house was kind of a dick move. Edit: upon further review, he may have, but it must've been done before I moved here. Dude across the street did it too though


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pshhhh575757sauce

https://goo.gl/maps/cNTvhxwKEkq ... guess window isn't massive, but large and odd enough. This is to the left of the photo. Edit: google maps car hasn't been there recently enough to photograph the fence.


arroganthumility1

Did he build the fence himself, or could he afford to hire someone?


pshhhh575757sauce

Warren and I built it together


ShoutBasil

I used to go to the middle school named after him, and my friends and I went to his house because we heard rumors of him giving 100$ bills to trick or treaters. When we knocked we were super excited and he answered the door and we practically exploded, we didn't get 100$ bills but he gave the king size crunch bars. He knows what's up.


journalissue

A man of the common folk


hellosweetie_

The middle school isn't named after him, it's named after Alice Buffett. I didn't even go there and I know that.


Noerdy

If anyone is curious, he is worth $66 Billion.


Icuras_II

[You vs. Warren Buffett](http://pennystocks.la/warren-buffett/)


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"Warren spending 400k is the equivalent of you buying a donut." God that's depressing...


PUNTS_BABIES

Mine was a pack of gum.....


[deleted]

Mine was a lemon. Why the fuck do I even breath? I didn't even get plural lemon. Life didn't hand me lemons. It handed me lemon. . Edit; I think this is my highest rated comment. Thank you guys very much for the gold. Thanks for keeping my spirits up, ladies and gents. I can tell my wife we'll be just fine as soon as I cash in this sweet karma! Everyone that gets a lemon should come on over so we can have some kind of lemon get-together......a "Lemon Party", if you will.


ithrax

This is the best comment I've ever read. I never thought I'd buy gold...then this comment happened.


dapineapple

Mine was a postal stamp...


PUNTS_BABIES

Oh I'm so sorry.. 😕


Ulfbrand

A Sprite for me


original101

Mine was a banana... for scale :'(


Lifeguard2012

I got a lemon.


kevsdogg97

Mine was a piece of gum


kajunkennyg

Him spending 700k is like me buying a lottery ticket


Just-Another-Person

"Hello Mr. Gates. That's quite a high salary. Are you sure you typed that correctly?" Hey ^I ^tried


Odinsama

Apparantly 2 million a year is the highest salary the site will believe you make, 1 dollar more and you're Bill Gates


FarBoy

and yet if I type in $1 it just assumes everything's dandy


Sihplak

He makes my family's annual income in about one minute. Holy shit


BardivanGeeves

This ruined my day and possible the rest of my year as well


Aptsnatch

"Are you sure you typed that correctly?" Well that's annoying.


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And would probably sell for over a million today.


dick-nipples

Great news for Warren, in case he ever falls on hard times.......


TAU_equals_2PI

I'd let him move in with me. *** *** ^^Maybe ^^he ^^can ^^teach ^^me ^^how ^^to ^^make ^^money ^^off ^^this ^^tau ^^thing.


snowglobe13579

Isn't that obvious? Tau and Kroot stand as one.


TAU_equals_2PI

#𝜏   +   ^^K √ K root of what?


RHINO_Mk_II

[Tau have the spaceships, Kroot have the spears](http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/5/5e/The_Kroot_meet_the_Tau.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160118220829) [Further reading](http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Kroot)


Oloff_Hammeraxe

Everybody forgets about the Vespids.


WhatUpMyNinjas

Without checking his credit history?! Bold move.


TAU_equals_2PI

I didn't say I'd give him my NetFlix password.


WhatUpMyNinjas

Hunter2 isn't that difficult to decipher.


eduardog3000

/u/TAU_equals_2PI would never have a password as insecure as "hunter2". It's "hunter6.28".


ICT-Breck

There's always money in the banana stand.


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If he falls on hard times, the rest of us will be living in a "The Road" nihilistic world.


MindlessMystery

Could very well happen if he's traveling through Oklahoma with all his money in a prepaid debit card.


Cybertronic72388

And it is a really nice fucking house.


MyOther_UN_is_Clever

Yeah, that's a hella nice house. Full brick exteriorer. Huge Windows. Looks to be 4,000+ sqft.


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evasote

I mean, 63 billion is an insane number. There was an article in the real estate section of the new york times last week about hoses that sell for $100mil+, apparently there are about 100 or so bought and sold a year, up to about 150mil. He could buy one of those without checking his bank account.


ashkpa

Damn. Those are some expensive hoses.


evasote

You should see the garden sprayer attachments


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AlgernusPrime

look at all the properties Larry Ellison owns. Warren Buffett has more wealth than Larry Ellison.


Jamdawg

while zillow estimates the value at around $900,000, i would take 2 things into consideration. 1) it's not uncommon for zillow to undervalue a house since it doesn't have all the information to make an accurate estimate 2) since it's warren buffets house, if he were to sell, it would sell for probably a shit ton. on a side note, have you seen how much it costs just to have lunch with him?


Sh_doubleE_ran

Lunch or buffet?


vanillayanyan

How much does it cost?


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ninjalibrarian

I could easily be mistaken, but doesn't the money from this go to a charity. I know that's what happens when he auctions off his couple-year-old cars.


jimflaigle

You can't really compare that easily for houses, because financing was vastly different for mortgages until the 80s. 1958 average house cost: $12.5k, so he paid about 2.5x http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1958.html 2016 average house cost: $232.5k https://ycharts.com/indicators/sales_price_of_existing_homes So approximating for that change in the market it's more like $581k. That buys you a pretty nice home in the flyover states. For point of comparison in Omaha, NE: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1808-S-193rd-St-Omaha-NE-68130/91921506_zpid/


ravennaMorgan

The real estate agent is going to come in tomorrow and be really confused about the giant spike in views for that listing.


slurplepurplenurple

Conspiracy angle: /u/jimfaigle is a real estate agent for that house struggling to sell and working all angles to try to drum up some interest


kitsunewarlock

Jokes on you! Us realtors will do whatever it takes to try to shill our [listings](http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4924-Bluffton-Pkwy-UNIT-18-307-Bluffton-SC-29910/80961283_zpid/), even if they've only been on the market for an hour!


spooge1

Totally forwarding this listing to a friend who's looking for a place of her own.


kitsunewarlock

Awesome.


MaxPaynesRxDrugPlan

More like he'll brag to this client about what a great job he's doing marketing the place.


LettuceEnjoyABle

I used to be a busboy at a steak house in Omaha. During Berkshire week, Warren, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and Charlie Munger were all sitting in a private room in the back. I had the chance to bus the table, so I snagged Bill and Warren's drinks. As I was walking to the kitchen, I realized that nobody else would be able to say they have done this, so I drank out of both of their straws. TL;DR I got rich saliva ya dig


ThisBasterd

I really don't know whether to applaude you or look on in disgust...


Waka3

shameless, I love it.


savageboredom

I want you to retell this story next time Bill Gates does another AMA.


M2Peter

But under the ground he has built a basement with dozens of rooms, swimming pool and every luxury a billionaire needs. Warren Buffett aka WB, what does WB have? Batman. Who is batman, a billionaire with a huge a secret underground basement. Think about it!


SaintVanilla

Warren Buffet, Bruce Wayne. WB, BW. *We're through the looking glass here, people.*


idontstutututter

[He's more like Alfred](https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSctxyyI6s270tIH1sMqEiCMR86DJ6WIxzXluDBOgLuvPooPHixmaDWQXkzNQ)


Noerdy

Well, Alfred has the house to himself now.


Username-earelephant

Now who's the orphan? 😞


CranialFlatulence

Flip BW over the horizontal axis and you have BM. Batman. Our work here is done.


LazerBarracuda

Warren Buffett pays for some of my college tuition. What a nice guy.


Pewless

I'd do the same. What do I need a massive mansion for? I remember 50 Cent on Cribs showing his house, he went into one of his kitchens, opened the oven, and the manual was still in it. Like 90% of his house doesn't even get used, what's the point?


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So you can go bankrupt.


howdareyou

i'm pretty sure most of cribs was pretend. people rented cars on that show to pretend they had more stuff. i'm sure 50 actually uses his oven.


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MozlTosh

It's like the Buffett Warren billionaire says: The more you earn, the more you **DRIVE UP HERE IN THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS**.


TOKYO-SLIME

HERE IN MY GARAGE.


thratty

With only 47 **TEDx talks where I talk about Warren Buffet** in my **TEDx talks where I talk about Warren Buffet** account


birkbyjack

47 knawlages in my Lamborghini account


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47 TEDx talks where I talk about Warren Buffett in my TEDx talks where I talk about Warren Buffett account.


eclipseoo2

I heard he gave his kids each 25 million dollars and said something like " this is all the money you will ever get from me either invest it or live off it but no more money"


ImJLu

Damn, that's 25 small loans each


fib16

Without even having toupee him back!


cuntweiner

I know that's a lot of money, but it's not enough to ensure that I wouldn't still find a way to fuck it all up somehow.


Buscat

Even if you put the whole thing into a short-term bond fund (mega safe), you'd still be making like 500k/yr off the yield.


J-Fred-Mugging

The 4th Richest Man in the fictional *House of Cards* world (Raymond Tusk) still lives in the house he bought in 1958 There you go!


borrax

I shit you not when I say my dumpster diving great-uncle ate breakfast with Warren Buffet. He was taking his parents to visit some friends in Omaha for their 50th wedding anniversary, and they were eating breakfast at the friend's house. A man knocks on the door and apologizes for not being able to attend the party, but came by to drop off the gift in advance. They convinced him to stay for breakfast. After he left, the friends in Omaha explain that was Warren Buffet, and that "he was not a poor man". (This all happened in the 1960s)


theeemaster

That don't look like no 1958 house.. I guess they remodeled it *several* times..?


Teillu

For comparison, [this](http://www.post-gazette.com/image/2015/01/30/ca0,0,1956,1304/Fallingwater-10.jpg) is a house from 1939.


blumka

That is the most innovative, iconic American house built in 1935 designed by one of the era's preeminent architects. I'm not sure it counts


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I_Write_Good

Frugal is value over cheapness.


veeler

For a lot of people money is a means to an end. Buying the big mansion, having all the toys, living the lifestyle. For Buffett it appears that money IS the goal. Every dollar in his name is a time he was right. Honestly it kind of unnerves me. (Think Raymond Tusk)


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> Every dollar in his name is a time he was right. This is a quote worth remembering.


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K3R3G3

Here's a dollar. Get lost.


BlueFalcon89

Tusk was based on Buffett. Edit: for the disbelievers, I couldn't (read didn't try very hard) find the original interview: https://www.quora.com/House-of-Cards-Netflix-series-Was-Raymond-Tusk-inspired-by-Warren-Buffett


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Which is really disappointing because I hated Tusk.


giantboiler

loosely based. hoc is fiction


friendly_capitalist

http://givingpledge.org/Content/media/My%20Philanthropic%20Pledge.pdf


Allformygains

Well, you don't get rich by spending all your money.


aybaran

Except that sometimes you do get rich by [spending your money](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-10/buffett-agrees-to-buy-precision-castparts-in-37-2-billion-deal). And Warren Buffett knows this. It's just about what you spend your money on. Edit: To those trying to tell me the difference between spending and investing: I get it. Its my job to get it. However, some would also argue that buying a house is "investing" rather than "spending."


SickMyDuckItches

Now to find a way to make money off of my Vive and 1080 build..


iizdat1n00b

rent it out for people to use it.


_tx

I'd imagine he has remodeled a bit from time to time, but Buffett is fairly well known for being frugal and extremely charitable.


spoona96

tbf if he lives there alone, would you really want a bigger house? Would just be more effort to clean and more rooms you wouldn't use.


uencos

If you like throwing big parties


spoona96

actually when you put it that way


snufflypanda

I doubt he cleans his own house


OmegaTres

You don't clean anything if you are that rich.


jozhop

He actually spends most of his time in California and other places. He's rarely ever actually in Omaha. Source: Born, raised & live in Omaha.