Poof! You're a billionaire. Where do you move?

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: Poof! You're a billionaire. Where do you move?

I'd probably fall somewhere between choice 3 and choice 7. I love to travel but I've already been to most of the places I want to see. I'd like to show 'em off to my gf of course, but whether these kitties would take to any kind of kenneling situation is not something I'd like to have to think about.

Anyway, a fun question to think about, right?:)

[deucemagnet]

1. Right now, I'm going to say the Spanish Riveira.

If I don't like it, I can always move. Hell, I'm a billionaire, right?

[pokerfan]

34. Monaco

and play high stakes poker.

Also a nice jumping off point for the French Rivera and the Italian Alps.

[Nikia]

2. Depends on what business that I buy/start

I'd like to be near that of course.
I'd like to work on alternative energy. Probably where I am or elsewhere in the Midwest would be good for that.
There is no way that I would live a life of leisure if I had that much money.

[deucemagnet]

5. Don't you think it would be a good idea...

...to get far away for awhile and ponder what you're going to do with your fortune? That's what I'm going to be doing in Spain!

[Nikia]

16. Good point

I suppose that I might want to take a few weeks to relax and then make my plans.
There are so many places that I have not been yet. I'd probably go to Hawaii.

[wildhorses]

3. i would own a yacht and travel the high seas, stopping in any

port of call that amused me at the moment, dahlink:P

[Seabiscuit]

4. I'd buy a vineyard in the south of France and make wine.

[BarenakedLady]

6. I have no idea

Maybe some small cottage in a little town in Ireland or something.

If I ever fall in love again, I'll probably go where ever they are. :shrug:

But since neither of those will ever happen, I'll probably go back to Rhode Island, upgrade every inch of my Nana's house and live there.

[Burma Jones]

7. NYC and Provence

With a lot of trips to Italy.

[graywarrior]

8. One house in Costa Rica, one house in the White Mountains of NH

[Burma Jones]

9. I could do that too..........

[NMDemDist2]

14. that sounds pretty good or the summer place in Canada

I think I'd take the $$$ and run from the US until we get a better government

but then again I might just buy a couple thousand acres right where I am and build completely off the grid and stay right where i'm at

[graywarrior]

17. Toronto is a cool place to be right now.

One of my best friends is from there and has decided to move back.

[TommyO]

100. OOhh, I hadn't really thought of that...

[WannaBeGrumpy]

10. Beverly Hills....

That's where I want to be!

~~I think I've been watching too many 90's teen soap opera reruns~~ :hi:

[Burma Jones]

12. Swimming Pools..........Movie Stars.........

[WannaBeGrumpy]

15. It's somethin' that you're born into...

and i just don't belong

[trof]

11. Bermuda

Nice climate and only an hour or so away from my daughter's family in Boston.

[WannaBeGrumpy]

13. Bahama,...

:)

[trof]

19. Come on pretty mama...

[WannaBeGrumpy]

22. da daa doo da da da ...

(can't remember the rest of the words right now)

[otherlander]

18. I would wander the world forever.

:)

[kskiska]

20. A place in Paris and NY to start

I'd do some traveling and probably decide on a few more places.

[stuntcat]

45. yah yah!

Good answer. I'd want lil apartments in NY and San Fran and Paris, and a farm in North Carolina, then spend the rest travelin.

[sandnsea]

21. Where I am now

But in a bigger house with an actual view of the ocean. Also would bring those solar shingles from Britain into the US and sell them at cost to help everybody have free electricity. And do something along those lines in the rest of the world too. Travel would be based on that sort of thing, what programs I could bring to different parts of the country and world. Too bad Warren Buffett didn't think that people close to the problems could solve them, the same way he believed he made better economic decsions because he stayed close to the people. Give a bunch of joe schmoe's a million bucks each for poverty-fighting projects and see what we come up with.

[brook]

23. Other,

My first choice would be to buy the duplex I live in and renovate it. I'd also buy one of my landlord's houses across the street because I have admired it for 30 years and would like to live in it. If those options were not available, I'd do some work on my apartment & stay the rest of my life -except for a little traveling. No matter what I'd do about housing, I'd want to establish a foundation or two with the intention of providing opportunities and services to people who, hopefully, will pay it forward somehow.

[texanwitch]

24. The first thing I would do is to help my friends.

I would pay off their housenotes or buy them a house.

Also I would pay off their credit card bills and car payments.

My friends have helped me many times in the past.

After all this I would travel the world, any place I wished.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. New England

Vermont or NH

[Joey Liberal]

49. Good choices

Rhode Island is nice too:).........

[SiobhanClancy]

61. So is Maine...

Since I'm here already,I guess I'd move to Ireland:)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

64. I could be happy in Maine, too...

I love Schoodic Point, especially...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

65. I haven't spent much time in Rhode Island

I'd like to, though. :-)

[BarenakedLady]

83. You think?

I grew up there. My parent's are still there. I may be living there again.

[Joey Liberal]

89. Good for you!

I grew up in Middletown.

[BarenakedLady]

91. Warwick...

Been away for going on 13 years. Well I visit several times a year, of course. :) I miss Dell's and Newport Creamery.

[greatauntoftriplets]

26. Ireland.

No question about it.

On edit: The West, County Mayo, around Westport, where my family came from. It's a beautiful place.

[ikojo]

27. The San Francisco area...

or even San Francisco itself..heck I'm a billinonaire I can afford to live anywhere!

I'd buy a sweet place with a very sweet home entertainment room.

I'd then invest some of the money and give some away to worthwhile not corporatized charities. I'd prefer to give to charities that do grassroots level work with no highly compensated executives. Guess that would leave out United Way.

[rug]

28. Adirondacks

[ronnykmarshall]

29. The Hollywood Hills

and a place in New York City.

Michael would still be a resident of California and I'd be a New Yorker.

We'd have to teach our cats how fly .... on an airliner that is.

[PittPoliSci]

30. Mordhaus

[Tsiyu]

31. With a billion dollars?

I'd keep my place but fix it up, then buy places in London, Tybee Island, Calabria, Italy; NYC and San Francisco, and also one in Northern NM, Brazil and Canada. My kids could stay at any one they like and I would spend my time travelling for a while. Then I would settle down on the hundred acre property in Northern NM and start my PTSD Recovery camp.

So, I'm ready!

[dropkickpa]

32. Stay in my neighborhood

but I'd buy a home (I rent now) and restore it (with some hidden but tasteful upgrades, such as central air and make it fully wired for technology). I would set up a scholarship fund specifically for single moms that has an amount set aside for childcare as well as tuition. I'd set up trust funds for my daughter and nephews and niece, one directed towards pre-college education, one for college, and one that would become available at age 25. I'd buy a car and say screw you to the bus forever. I'd buy myself a new wardrobe of all new and non clearance-sale clothes (it'd still be 99% jeans and t-shirts, though :-) ). I'd take Dropkid to Disneyworld, and we'd go on some sort of vacation every summer. Oh yeah, I'd quit my damn job and spend buckets of time with her also.

[swag]

33. Madrid or Sevilla.

Spaniards hate Americans now, but who cares? It's not like Spanish history is anything to brag about.

I guess I would lean toward Madrid, though Sevilla feels more like home. More like Portland or Baltimore. More crusty.

[SKKY]

67. Living in Spain, I can say your money would go a lot further...

...in Sevilla. Although, if you've got billions, would you worry about that?

[mainegreen]

35. Build a self sustained, solar/wind powered large log home in northern Quebec.

Spend my time in front of a fire reading, playing with telescopes, fishing, hiking and canoing.

[Zookeeper]

96. What you said....

although I don't think my DH would be very excited about it, since he's partial to "civilization."

[Haole Girl]

36. Who's the other one of us going to Hawaii?

And, which island do you want to live on? I like Kauai the best. :hi:

[Mendocino]

46. Ah.... Kauai, Hanalei Bay on the north coast, to be close to Na Pai,

New Zealand, Norway, or British Columbia.

[Haole Girl]

52. Here's to dreams:

[ellisonz]

93. A big new house on St. Louis Heights:

Stay close to Town so I can live it up. I can always take a week off to the Outer Islands at will, at will.

I also require a home in Big Sur, CA.

:9

[hyphenate]

37. With a billion dollars

I wouldn't have to worry about where, because I'd build or buy a house in any place I wanted to spend significant amounts of time.

These would include (at this time)

Gloucester or Rockport, Mass
Toronto
Vancouver
PCH, around Malibu or Zuma Beach
the Lakes Region, England
somewhere around the Valley of the Kings, Egypt
someplace lovely in New Zealand
a private island somewhere near the Bermuda Triangle
a penthouse apartment in Manhattan




Hmmmmmmmmmmm............except for the place in Egypt, these all places seem to have something in common!

[femmocrat]

38. I would have two homes.

One in Key West for the winter and a beach house in Maine for the summer. I always wanted a really cozy beach cottage decorated in furnishings from the L.L. Bean catalog. LOL It would sit on a high bluff overlooking the water and have pine trees and those wild beach-rose bushes. And a couple of real Adirondack chairs to sit and watch the sunrise and sunsets.....

[hellbound-liberal]

39. I'd move to Vermont so I could help keep Bernie in office!

and I'd also buy a summer place in Alaska, that I would donate to a non-profit organization to keep it from being developed.

[crim son]

40. Southern Oregon, Ashland where I could grow things.

I'd have a condo in NYC, too.

[SPKrazy]

53. What Would You Grow?

jest askin'

:evilgrin:

[crim son]

54. Everything that I could.

I'd love to have an acre or two of fruits and vegetables, and one more of flowers. Peaches. Lots of peaches.

[SPKrazy]

58. Love Peaches!

that's right you have the green thumb and no low ambition for growing a garden, an acre or two.

:thumbsup:

[edbermac]

41. Crawford, TX

And boot that counterfeit cowboy OUTTA town!

[GOPisEvil]

79. It truly is a shithole.

I think he should be sentenced to Crawford like it's his Elba.

[Lyric]

42. I'd move to Wales, right near the England border

Preferably a manor house on the River Wye, with lots of acres of green land all around. :)

[XemaSab]

43. I'd buy a swank house in Santa Barbara

and spend half the year travelling. :D

2 months in Peru, 2 months in SB, 2 months in Kenya, 2 months in SB, 2 months in Indonesia, 2 months in SB.

2 months in Brazil, 2 months in SB, 2 months in China, 2 months in SB, 2 months in Tanzania, 2 months in SB.

2 months in Costa Rica, 2 months in SB, 2 months in Madagascar, 2 months in SB, 2 months in Queensland, 2 months in SB.

2 months in India, 2 months in SB, 2 months in South Africa, 2 months in SB, 2 months in the Philippines, 2 months in SB.

etc.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

44. Everywhere.

http://www.residentialvessels.com/condos_at_sea_condo_at_sea.htm

[Deja Q]

47. The nearest brothel

:spray:

[Joey Liberal]

48. Bora Bora

With frequent trips to Holland:)..........

[bikebloke]

50. I'd base myself in New Zealand.

Maybe hang around Europe for half the year. Though I've travelled so much as it is, perhaps I'll see the few places left I want to see. Then hang around growing a kitchen garden and body surfing. I'll let you now when I'm a billionaire...it's supposed to happen soon, right?

[crim son]

56. Let me know, for sure.

I'd love to visit you in NZ. I'd live there if it weren't so far from my family. Beautiful, beautiful country.

[Left Is Write]

51. House in Minnesota, house in Europe somewhere (Italy, maybe),

house in northern Arizona.

[MassLiberal]

55. Vermont

[liberaltrucker]

57. Cuba-for obvious reasons

See avatar and sig line

[Strawman]

59. Mendocino

I think I'd be very happy there.

[Generic Brad]

60. I would be a nomad

I would spend the rest of my days seeing the world with the people I love. Home is where you hang your hat, after all.

[Bjornsdotter]

62. Sweden

Skane....right on the ocean.

Cheers

[SoyCat]

63. I'd move to the same place I'm already moving. And, I'd also have an apartment in NOLA which would

certainly beat staying in hotels (I'm there frequently).

[u4ic]

66. I wouldn't stay in the city I'm living in;

that's for sure.

I have some wonderful friends here, but it's not a city I'd stay for the rest of my life.

I would have a few residences...a place in Waterton Lakes and one of the Channel Islands, most likely Guernsey.

I would do a lot of travelling before deciding what city(ies) feels right, mostly Europe.

[Initech]

68. The Netherlands

And no, it's not because of legalized marijuana ( :smoke: ), it's because I want to see what living in a real progressive country is like.

[Vidar]

69. Italy.

[billyskank]

70. Ohio

Actually the US would not be the top of my list of places I'd move to, but for a girl there I like. And I think when you're a billionaire the US is probably a good place to be, right?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

71. Either stay in the U.K., or go to Ireland, France or Germany

I'd be happy with a small-to-medium sized place

[BreweryYardRat]

72. The Pacific Northwest or Hawaii.

Maybe buy an island in the Philippines.

[Orsino]

73. Vancouver, BC

Hope to be there in the next few years, anyway.

[Eurobabe]

74. Monaco, sun- sea- no taxes

Switzerland, mountains secret bank accounts
Luxembourg, tax haven

OR

travel the world and hope they never find me!

[NewJeffCT]

75. I'd build a "green" house here in Connecticut...

Make it as environmentally friendly as I can - solar panels, those new furnaces that use the earth beneath your home to heat & cool the house, etc, etc.

Then, I would probably do similar at a few choice places around the world.

[Norwood]

76. Vegas Baby!!!

[Dinger]

77. An Energy Efficient Log Home In Alaska

Ahhhhh

[grace0418]

78. I would have small places in a bunch of different cities. Nothing extravagant...

just a place to stay when I'm traveling. I love cooking (especially in cities that have awesome public markets) so staying in hotels and having room service gets old for me really fast.

As far as a permanent home, I think I might like something with a bright sunny art studio out in the middle of nowhere. Maybe in Northern California? I'm not sure. Hand over the money and I'll figure it out.

In any event, I could live comfortably on much less than a billion dollars, so I would gladly set up a charity to spread that kind of wealth.

[Rabrrrrrr]

80. I'd buy homes in Kyoto, NYC, Bordeaux, Wisconsin, Banff, Honolulu, and Scotland.

Up in the foggiest, dreariest area of Scotland, so I could spend the winter there.

[Midlodemocrat]

81. I'd stay here in my current house until the kids are grown.

Then, I *might* sell it.

In the meantime, I would establish a foundation, get a beach house in Maui and an apartment on the Champs in Paris.

[Courtesy Flush]

82. If you're a billionaire, you don't have to choose only one!

Now tell me I've won three or four million, and I'd have to make some decisions. But a billion? I could just choose "all of the above".

[bmbmd]

84. Akron-

and a beautiful lady would bring me cold, cold beer and say " You poor dear. You poor, poor dear".

[The2ndWheel]

85. Soviet Union

Because there, land move to you.

[Beer Snob-50]

86. Key West Florida

I know it is touristy but i love the atmosphere and I would learn to sail and just have a grand old time.

[bleedingheart]

87. I am going to stay put but I am going to use the money to get rid of eyesores

and all those crappy non historic vacant hulls left over by asshole developers who make the world look shitty.

There are so many places like that around Pittsburgh...I could spend it all making my home city look better.

[carly denise pt deux]

88. A summer place in Colorado, a winter place in the Virgin Islands

a spring place in Monaco and a fall place in Rio......
Carly

[YDogg]

90. New Mexico

[Evoman]

92. I'd commision a spaceship, and then hire a diverse group of funky people as the crew.

At least one of each of these kinds of people:

1) Hard ass skeptic as my science officer
2) Wisecracking teenager as my electronics/computer specialist
3) Hot feminist as my First Officer, who constantly avoids my advances and calls me a pig.
4) Big dumb guy as my Heavy weapons specialist.

Then we would fly to Alpha centauri, where I would travel to the fifth planet, which has been ravaged by a disease that sterilizes all the male aliens of that planet. I then have to repopulate this planet, where the females look exactly like Earth women (except they are blue) and who are genetically compatible with me, of course. And also, they have no genetic technology, so they have no way to harvest my nads with needles.

But first I have to get a billion dollars. If you donate now, I may be able to find you space on my ship.

[qnr]

94. Other: L5 n/t

[Broken_Hero]

95. up north,

back home to Alaska...up in the Mts. some where....

[Phillycat]

97. Florence, Italy.

[Deep13]

98. A place that welcomes billionaire poofs.

:evilgrin:

[TommyO]

99. Some of the above!

I would stay in the same general area, but buy a nice piece of property and build a home that's roughly the size of my current townhouse (around 1500sq/ft), perhaps just a touch larger to integrate a small home theater.

I would also buy a larger house near my mother's and make that the family gathering house for the summer (it's on the Jersey shore).

There would be plenty of charity work, focusing mainly on under-privileged gay and lesbian youth.

[MissMillie]

101. Probably Maine

somewhere near Buxton.... lots of land. I'd buy a lot big enough so that the house couldn't be seen from the road.

[BikeWriter]

102. THE WATERHOLE!!!!!!!1111

[youthere]

103. I would stay in the place I now live...although I'd do some major remodeling.

I love our house and our property so I wouldn't move but I would do some major improvements. I've always wanted to renovate our attic. It's a walk up attic that would convert nicely to a third floor master suite or a rec room for the kids.
I'd build a new garage.
I'd put a sauna in the basement.
I'd build on to the back of the house and expand my kitchen into a sprawling eat-in work of art (the one I've always dreamed about).
I'd move the door to the downstairs bathroom (it's right off the dining room which I've always found really weird).
I would have a professional landscaper come and do our entire yard and convert the backyard into an elaborate Japanese garden.
and that's about it.