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You win the lottery, where are you living?


What's your dream place?

Malibu?
Palm Beach, Florida?
A mansion on a lake?

Maybe something overseas?

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I would probably just stay here in this area because of family and friends, but build something along the river. It would be nice to go somewhere warm during the winter months, but I don't think I would always want to go to the same place, so I would rent houses in different locations.

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I would live in the mountains of West Virginia on a farm. It doesn't even need to be a mansion, it can just be a one story house and I'd be content. Or maybe in a neighborhood with waterfront property.

I'd buy a beach house for my parents.

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I'd probably have 3-4 different homes - city, country, beach and foreign.

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I'd stay right where I am, but likely fix up my house a little. I'd much rather deal with the occasional tornado or snowstorm than hurricanes, floods, wildfires, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.

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I’d keep my house in ‘Sunny’ Bournemouth and travel all over the world (same as now, but more so).

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Yep - I've always said I would take a world cruise if I won the lottery - just because I've always wanted to do that and also to get away where nobody would know how to find me or who I am.

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I think the problem with having a holiday home (or a number of holiday homes) is that you would feel obliged to use them regularly, which might prove too restrictive.

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In the same house I'm living in right now (which I grew up in, and acquired in 1999), except I'd restore/renovate it using lots and lots of American black walnut and rock maple (e.g., floors, wall paneling, counter tops), a BlueStar gas cook top, and a set of tinned copper cookware (such as from Mauviel).

I'd also build a huge garage with enough room for a couple dozen cars, with several lifts, a huge air compressor, a fully-equipped machine shop, including a 5-axis CNC mill, a complete set of Snap-on tools and tool chests, and a full-time staff consisting of mechanics, machinists, fabricators (at least one guy who could be considered the Charlie Daniels of the English wheel), and body & paint guys.

On the second floor of the garage I'd have a movie theater, video arcade, pool room (billiards, not a swimming pool), a sound-proofed room with a massive stereo system, and a film lab so I could make my own 35mm theatrical film prints from [ideally] DCPs and [less ideally] Blu-rays (I'd need to have an actual movie theater business going on, on paper at least, to get access to DCPs).

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Far away from civilization in the woods where it doesn't get too cold or too hot.

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I'd probably buy the land I'm currently living on (renting an apartment atm, one of 5 apartments in total) and would turn it into 2 larger properties, one for me and one for my elderly neighbour, an Irish gent and a real swell guy. I'd probably also have a home in England, which feels like my second home, and go between the two to avoid the extreme parts of the seasons (summer in Australia, winter in England - although I do quite like the beach and ice skating).

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