The world’s richest man said that he does not own a house and spends the most of his time sleeping in the spare bedrooms of his friends.
Elon Musk confessed to couch surfing in a recent interview with TED’s Chris Anderson.
“I don’t even own a place right now, I’m literally staying at friends’ places,” explained Musk, whose estimated net worth is $269.5 billion, according to Forbes.
“If I travel to the Bay Area, which is where most of Tesla’s engineering is, I basically rotate through friends’ spare bedrooms,” the father-of-seven added.
Despite the wealthy tech magnate’s unusual lifestyle, the Tesla TSLA, +2.38 percent and SpaceX creator did divulge the one luxury he enjoys.
When answering a question about the wealth disparity in the U.S. between average Americans and billionaires like himself, Musk said, “For sure, it would be very problematic if I was spending billions of dollars a year in personal consumption, but that is not the case.”
“It’s not as though my personal consumption is high,” he continued, admitting that his private plane is the only exception.
“If I don’t use the plane then I have less hours to work,” he added.
Musk said in June of last year that his primary abode is a $50,000 SpaceX rental. Furthermore, the house was close to the company’s Texas headquarters. He also acknowledged to having a “events house” in the Bay Area in the tweet.
Musk famously tweeted in May 2020, “I am selling almost all physical possessions.” “I will not own a house.”