Who Would be Your Ideal Celebrity Neighbor?

 Who Would be Your Ideal Celebrity Neighbor?

I’m probably the most uncultured person out of all the students at Uni, at least in terms of being able to identify celebrities. For example, while warming up for soccer practice just a few days ago, the conversation shifted to a discussion about actors. My teammates named a few celebrity actors, such as Tom Hanks, Robert Downey Jr, and Meryl Streep. As you’ve probably guessed, I somehow couldn’t connect their names to any movies at all. I even asked if BTS was a boy band or girl band (I’m so sorry). Unfortunately, as somebody who has probably been to a movie theater 4 times in my life and doesn't really pay attention to any culture or celebrity magazines, I only know basketball and soccer players and a few select actors and miscellaneous celebrities who have somehow drifted into my mind. 

If I have to be completely honest, I wouldn’t care much if I had a celebrity neighbor as long as they didn’t bother me. Ideally, the celebrity wouldn’t be too famous, or whatever news coverage and paparazzi would annoy me really badly. I remember being in an airport lounge in China when a singer sat down a few seats away from my family with a bodyguard. A minute or so later, there were 30 or 40 people in our corner of the lounge, holding fancy cameras and mobbing him. It’s me we’re looking at, so I didn’t know who the celebrity was at the time, but I just recall being really annoyed that I couldn’t take a nap because of the cameras. 

At least in my mind, celebrities tend to have materialistic tendencies that people tend to gossip about, such as their rolex or whatever fancy contraption they recently purchased. I’m not against celebrities spending their wealth, but it would bring unwanted attention to my neighborhood. On a similar note: I don’t really “use” social media, but I don’t really like people who do just about anything for Instagram, Snapchat, or whatever the social media app people use nowadays is. Celebrities regularly taking pictures near my home would definitely bother me. 

My ideal celebrity neighbor would preferably be famous for something I care nothing about. If I lived next to a celebrity who did something that interested me, I would be much more easily distracted from my day-to-day life. On the other hand, if I didn’t care about a celebrity’s profession, I could live without the worry of missing anything that I could potentially find interesting. For example, a famous golfer or actor would make a good neighbor, while I would stay away from basketball players. 

You probably think I’m really insensitive and a terrible neighbor for having outlined some traits that most others can tolerate. I can’t disagree with that. However, I’m also not really somebody you’d think of as “normal.” After all, I didn’t know who Robert Downey Jr. was. With all that said, stock trader Warren Buffett would probably be my ideal celebrity neighbor. Just like me, he has some interesting quirks, such as eating McDonald’s for breakfast everyday. He lives in a surprisingly modest home given his net worth, and, as an old person, naturally doesn’t have any major social media presence. Finally, I have absolutely no interest in anything Warren Buffett does, and he isn’t the sort of famous figure that the press usually covers. All in all, I’d be happy to welcome Warren Buffett as my new neighbor.