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So what do you buy with $1.6 billion? (1 Viewer)

Apartments in expensive areas in the nicer parts of the world. 

I'd love to just buy and hop from location to location during my retirement. New York, Beverly Hills, Seattle, Portland, Boston, New Orleans, Dallas come immediately to mind. Then Paris, London, Prague, Barcelona or Seville, Rome, etc.  

 
rockaction said:
Apartments in expensive areas in the nicer parts of the world. 

I'd love to just buy and hop from location to location during my retirement. New York, Beverly Hills, Seattle, Portland, Boston, New Orleans, Dallas come immediately to mind. Then Paris, London, Prague, Barcelona or Seville, Rome, etc.  
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this. NYC (including beach and mountain spots), Paris, Anguilla, NCal, mountain somewhere in or out of the US...

and then set the wife up in her business (fashion). and with all the houses, I'd be set up in mine... finally with a good client. 

and then set up some charitable foundations. 

eta: what comfortably numb said. except maybe MLS- good growth potential here.

 
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The American Dream back.

Most days, I like to listen to a Youtube lecture (i'm currently working my way thru Robert Sapolsky's wonderful behavioral biology series) and, last week, there was one on my pimp panel from tired ol' Ralph Nader. I was surprised he was even still at it in his mid 80s, but he was at a DC bookstore supporting his new tome, To The Ramparts, a book about how Dubya & Obama had paved the way for Trump to happen, so i took a look. He was surprisingly vibrant & clever, along with his usual sober earnestness, about convincing the country that citizenship, even in the current ####storm of stasis & corruption, is quite possible and, in fact, simple, effective & necessary. Check it out.

In it, he wondered more than once, as i have hundreds of times this century, why some internet billionaire has not devoted his philanthropy toward restoring democracy. Corporate interest lobbying outspends that of union & public interest at a 37-to-1 clip and i just thought by now some digital mogul would look to even that out or start a grassroots reform party of some kind but......nothin'.

Always thought i'd like to do something like that with big wealth, but Nader's lecture gave me a better idea. He kept harping on the idea that two, four, twelve, nineteen passionate people getting together for a reason is how America was built, how it evolved, how it can change still

Diverting for a sec to make my full point, traveling Central America in my youth, i enjoyed how every little place had its own way of doing hot chocolate. Chilies, weird cinnamon/spice/sugar combos, fruit, nuts, the base of the liquid itself - each town different. Don't know why someone hasn't tried Starbucking the concept, cuz i could give you a number of distinct flavors of cocoa drinks that would turn coffee flavors/forms on its ear and they're just as bracing and almost as caffeine-y as coffee (and, if not, you can do a mocha).

So here's what i'd do with a billion six - rent a little shop in every town & city neighborhood i could and put a beautifully designed banner saying CITIZEN outside every one. Anyone can walk in to ask how to be a better citizen - information & encouragement about volunteering, political action (across the spectrum), charity, lectures & current events. And, on the way out, let us sell you a delicious champurrado to pay the bills. Welcome to the CITIZEN shop - be better to each other. nufced

 
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The idle dreams I have:

1) Build an entirely new community for the Central American caravan ...basically SimCity it for them in Mexico or, to irritate Trump, in the southern U.S.

2) Jump in to help with the needs in the Panhandle to help with the recovery.

The main thing I'd want to buy is the house in our community that I believe has an indoor lap pool across the back, and I'd look forward to flying first class for my every-increasing travel.

 
wikkidpissah said:
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So here's what i'd do with a billion six - rent a little shop in every town & city neighborhood i could and put a beautifully designed banner saying CITIZEN outside every one. Anyone can walk in to ask how to be a better citizen - information & encouragement about volunteering, political action (across the spectrum), charity, lectures & current events. And, on the way out, let us sell you a delicious champurrado to pay the bills. Welcome to the CITIZEN shop - be better to each other. nufced
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Actually this gives me an idea.

I wonder if a same day volunteer kiosk would work. Just like the same day theater ticket places. It would be a place that local organizations could consolidate their, focus on short term, volunteer opportunities.

You could call or stop by just because you felt like doing something good for a day or just a couple hours. Pick an assignment and go.

 
tri-man 47 said:
The idle dreams I have:

1) Build an entirely new community for the Central American caravan ...basically SimCity it for them in Mexico or, to irritate Trump, in the southern U.S.

2) Jump in to help with the needs in the Panhandle to help with the recovery.

The main thing I'd want to buy is the house in our community that I believe has an indoor lap pool across the back, and I'd look forward to flying first class for my every-increasing travel.
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Yeah, I'd "give away"/donate a huge portion. Maybe start some kind of charitable organization myself. Not sure exactly what. I'll figure that out when I win tonight.

 
First thing, a safety deposit box for the ticket. 

I bought tickets on vacation last week, so I'd have to drive a few hours to claim my winnings. That would probably be my scariest drive ever. Or flight, but that might be more nerve wracking.

But I wouldn't want anyone to know I won at first, so I wouldn't just pick up and drive immediately. I'd need to find a good excuse to be gone in a few weeks, so I'd need a safe place to keep the ticket.

 
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brun said:
Actually this gives me an idea.

I wonder if a same day volunteer kiosk would work. Just like the same day theater ticket places. It would be a place that local organizations could consolidate their, focus on short term, volunteer opportunities.

You could call or stop by just because you felt like doing something good for a day or just a couple hours. Pick an assignment and go.
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I was born on Columbus Day and enjoyed getting the day off school for my birthday each year until Nixon changed all the little holidays to Monday and began the decline of that particular holiday. As a day which kinda celebrates imperialism, i understood its diminishment but i found out that the day had been celebrated as Discovery Day and thought it could be revived as that. Just so happened this was around the time the internet became popular and one of the things i liked best about those early days was the capacity computers had to bring disparate people together on a subject or for a purpose. I wasn't online yet, but i talked a friend of mine into starting a Discovery Day website to try to convert Columbus Day into a day that could be set aside for people to do something they hadn't done before - bungee jump, flashmob, Habitat for Humanity, kayaking, reverse cowgirl, whatever, and preserve the holiday in the spirit of discovery by which it was conceived.

So i'd be very much on board with your idea. The funny thing about the internet is that you can do a lot of things that you actually never end up doing. Time to brick&mortar the citizenship concept again.

I would, in fact, also support people going to church again. Not a GOD church, unless that's their bag,  but a community of devotion to the human spirit and gratitude for the chance to be a member of the family of humankind. Some inspiration, information, humor, whatever, from the pulpit, then citizenship/scout-type activities for the kiddies and combination picnic/charitable endeavour or organization for the grownups. We've had a couple of generations of celebrating the difference between us - time to remember we have more in common than not

ETA: and, to hijack this thread just a little more, my first ad campaign for the CITIZEN store (now with insta-volunteer kiosk) would be "Bet You Will". I worked in the gaming business for 25 years, the last ten @ an Indian casino that was paranoid about the employees getting caught betting sports or something. after a couple guys got fired in another dept for betting football (and i knew it wasn't bookie stuff, just my-team-v-your-team done too loudly), i made a point of asking the tribe guys if we could bet charitable endeavours and they approved. So, we started betting for charity or Random Acts of Kindness (if it was a grudge bet).

One year early this century, a Fanball Forum friend got called up to Iraq from his National Guard duty and i was sending him Kuwait-forbidden vodka in disguised care packages and asked him what we back home could help GIs there "Phone cards" was his immediate reply. So i bet the Pats-Panthers Super Bowl with some guy and made $200 in phone cards the bounty and the guy started crowing so much about his victory that customers started asking me about the phone cards. A couple of em said, "Gotta support the troops. Buy a hundred's worth from me" Before 2004 was out, i had brought over $15K worth of phone cards down to the VFW. So, "bet you a visit to the volunteer kiosk" would be a hella campaign.

 
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my wife and I would travel a lot.  Kids would be set up forever.  Invest enough to make sure that my drunken decision making couldn't bankrupt us and then have a blast.

 
top dog said:
my wife and I would travel a lot.  Kids would be set up forever.  Invest enough to make sure that my drunken decision making couldn't bankrupt us and then have a blast.
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Ok. What about the other $1.55b you still have left?

 
top dog said:
my wife and I would travel a lot.  Kids would be set up forever.  Invest enough to make sure that my drunken decision making couldn't bankrupt us and then have a blast.
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Actually, that's my biggest concern.  I wouldn't want my kids/grandkids to have a super-easy life handed to them.  I'd want my now-grown children to continue with what they're doing (my daughter works for the Alzheimer's Association, for instance).  I'd definitely want to make their lives more comfortable and not lack for what they need.  But my concern is that they'd lose their way if I suddenly sent millions their way ...I'd regret it if the lottery unleashed the inner-idiot that we all have. 

 
Hit Joe up for a weekly article.  Focus on something non-DFS.  Dynasty football and IDPs?  Tell people my job was "Football Analytics".

 
Buy my company, fire 6-7 jerkoffs, then sell it. 

‘seriously, I would disappear for a while, enjoy a long vacation where no one knew us, prob a month's time. Then spread some around to immediate family, pay off my inlaws house (they are underwater on their house). I want to start my own business, this would make it easier to hit the ground running but still hire a senior enough staff that i'm not needed everyday. Then volunteer as much as I can.   

 
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A jetski... you can't buy happiness.. but you ever see anyone unhappy on a jetski?

Seriously, after all the obvious stuff it would be the ability to travel,have experiences, and help out worthy causes that would be the most rewarding. You can't take the material with, but you will remember the experiences.. well until you get too old to remember...

 
Angry Beavers said:
A jetski... you can't buy happiness.. but you ever see anyone unhappy on a jetski?

Seriously, after all the obvious stuff it would be the ability to travel,have experiences, and help out worthy causes that would be the most rewarding. You can't take the material with, but you will remember the experiences.. well until you get too old to remember...
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thats why you also hire a personal photographer. 

 
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