Best Place To Live if money didnt matter

[cluelessgenius]

lets just day dream for a minute...

 

imagine you hit the lottery jackpot of like 40+ million bucks.

where would you choose to live.

personally im not sure where would be best but id want somewhere with the mildest weather possible throughout the year. with a nice ocean view maybe.

anyone knows of places with the best weather conditions all year?

also i wouldnt mind a country with less rules for everything. id like to be able to tinker with cars without the german TÜV or similar breathing down my neck.

i thought about islands but i imagine getting anything shipped there would be a nightmare. so maybe cape town south africa? idk? every time i see a beatiful villa online it seems to be from there.

[Princess Luna]

Canada if you like the cold, Portugal if you're more on the warm side.

 

New Zealand also sounds interesting.

 

Uruguay also is a valid alternative for south America.

[Sauron]

Dunno, if I won that much money I think I'd give away most of it, I don't really need it. Maybe I'd buy a house but I wouldn't want a villa. I wouldn't live anywhere else unless I had no choice or the benefits were extremely convincing, all my friends and family are where I currently live.

[cluelessgenius]

7 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

Canada if you like the cold, Portugal if you're more on the warm side.

 

New Zealand also sounds interesting.

 

Uruguay also is a valid alternative for south America.

well yeah canada does pretty well in most ranking regarding health care and infrastrcture and so on but i really wouldnt want the cold. portugal sounds interesting. new zealand i fear might have the same problem as small islands where i have a feeling getting anything delivered there might bcome a problem. never really considered uruguay. what makes you suggest it?

 

4 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Dunno, if I won that much money I think I'd give away most of it, I don't really need it. Maybe I'd buy a house but I wouldn't want a villa. I wouldn't live anywhere else unless I had no choice or the benefits were extremely convincing, all my friends and family are where I currently live.

well yeah i would probably give some to friends and family as well and leaving them here is a factor but i think id still prefer to a warmer place. also i have at least 1 friend i know would probably move with me if i like gave him enough money so he doesnt have to work ever again. which i would do anyway. 

firends and family are for me the only thing i like about this country. everything else sucks.

 

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, cluelessgenius said:

well yeah canada does pretty well in most ranking regarding health care and infrastrcture and so on but i really wouldnt want the cold.

Yes it's a great country in cultural and education value and you can see it by the great infrastructure it possess, I'd definitely live there before considering northern European countries for the more easy going people without as much apparent stress. However you gotta be into cold for it and I always say "cold is only good for tourism not for living".

3 minutes ago, cluelessgenius said:

portugal sounds interesting.

If I were to choose an European country to live, it'd Portugal for sure, it has one of the most warm and easy going people, when I lived on UK one of the things that gave me most depression aside the constant "grey/lack of colour" you see everywhere was how much every one seemed snob while at the same time ignorant, I have a latin more "red" skin, neither white or black, and even so I'd get racist commentaries from natural British folk.

 

Portugal also rivals Italy in good beach locations but in my humble opinion has better food and more welcoming people while having access to all the goodies of modern society.

7 minutes ago, cluelessgenius said:

new zealand i fear might have the same problem as small islands where i have a feeling getting anything delivered there might bcome a problem.

Yes and no, if you lived on a very secluded country like Micronesia then yeah I can see this being an issue but New Zealand is a fully developed country and with 40millions on your back account you'd not have any issues getting the things you want. The country also is safe and has beautiful environment.

8 minutes ago, cluelessgenius said:

. never really considered uruguay. what makes you suggest it?

I'm naturally from Hamburg therefore I understand your frustration with Germany better than most, I haven't been to the motherland in years as I really dislike it there as well for multiple reasons, nowadays I live in Brazil and despite being considered a "lower end" country just the fact it has bright vivid colours everywhere already makes it a better living experience...

 

From all my travels across South America I'd say Uruguay is what reaches the European standard the closest, it is a small really beautiful and organized country with liberal laws, like even weed is legal and everything just works thanks high education standards, it's a bit on the colder side during winters but it can still be very warm during summers and also has great beaches.

[cluelessgenius]

6 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

even weed is legal

uhh i didnt even think about that. not really a deal breaker if not but definitly nice to have.

[Blze001]

Money no object? Cabin in the Rocky Mountains with gigabit fiber and a 10 car garage.

[cluelessgenius]

3 minutes ago, Blze001 said:

Money no object? Cabin in the Rocky Mountains with gigabit fiber and a 10 car garage.

im with you on the 10 car garage but rocky mountains? isnt that a bit far from civilization?

[Ross Siggers]

Rocky mountains isn't all completely removed from civilization...most of it is national parks after all.

How about, "Cabin just outside of Banff with gigabit fiber and a 10 car garage"

[XR6]

If money is no object I'd like to live in a big house in Cape Town (or Banff) with gigabit fiber, a 10 car garage, an airplane hangar and an airfield.

[cluelessgenius]

4 minutes ago, Ross Siggers said:

Rocky mountains isn't all completely removed from civilization...most of it is national parks after all.

How about, "Cabin just outside of Banff with gigabit fiber and a 10 car garage"

alright fair enough but its still mountain climate i personally would rather prefer spain. if i consider only wether then the spanish islands off the coast o africa would be the best for me  

 

i mean look at this shit ...red is max temp blue is min temp and green are rainy days.

[cluelessgenius]

3 minutes ago, XR6 said:

If money is no object I'd like to live in a big house in Cape Town (or maybe Banff) with gigabit fiber, a 10 car garage, an airplane hangar and an airfield.

airfield? to each his own i guess but for me theres no money in the world where id get a private plane or yacht for that matter. the running cost would kill all the fun for me. like even if i had the cash i couldnt enjoy it if i knew that it costs me 50k for a tank of ...cerosin?...i guess idk. 

 

also i find it interesting how inportant internet seems to you guys. obviously you gonna have nice internet in a nice house but i dont knew if it had to be gigbit for me personally. i have a 50k line right now and i have yet to have a moment where i thought "if only this was faster"

[Velcade]

Grandma's House.

 

Free Cookies... mmmmmmm

[Real_PhillBert]

For me, eastern Montana. Breathtakingly beautiful area, IMO. 

 

[cluelessgenius]

1 minute ago, Velcade said:

Grandma's House.

 

Free Cookies... mmmmmmm

40 mill in the back and still going for the free cookies no but i  get it. although my parents and i would want such different things out of a place to live that i think there would be some distance. but hey with that kinda cash i could just fly over and visit them every now and then

[Dedayog]

1 hour ago, cluelessgenius said:

lets just day dream for a minute...

 

imagine you hit the lottery jackpot of like 40+ million bucks.

where would you choose to live.

personally im not sure where would be best but id want somewhere with the mildest weather possible throughout the year. with a nice ocean view maybe.

anyone knows of places with the best weather conditions all year?

also i wouldnt mind a country with less rules for everything. id like to be able to tinker with cars without the german TÜV or similar breathing down my neck.

i thought about islands but i imagine getting anything shipped there would be a nightmare. so maybe cape town south africa? idk? every time i see a beatiful villa online it seems to be from there.

Mykonos Island, Greece.

[cluelessgenius]

1 minute ago, Real_PhillBert said:

For me, eastern Montana. Breathtakingly beautiful area, IMO. 

idk i grew up in the middle of the country. ive had well enough of all the fields of green. palm trees and beaches are beautiful too.

[cluelessgenius]

2 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

Mykonos Island, Greece.

isnt greece falling apart of corruption right now? mykonos does look beautiful but i think id still prefer somewhere on the mainlands coast.

[Velcade]

5 minutes ago, cluelessgenius said:

40 mill in the back and still going for the free cookies no but i  get it. although my parents and i would want such different things out of a place to live that i think there would be some distance. but hey with that kinda cash i could just fly over and visit them every now and then

With all that money in the bank I can focus on what's important.  Family, so yeah man. Cookies for this guy.

[Ross Siggers]

8 minutes ago, Velcade said:

Grandma's House.

 

Free Cookies... mmmmmmm

Flashbacks to Cookie Clicker, and an army of Grandmas...

[PlayStation 2]

Buy a big ass plot of land in West Virginia and build a house outside of Charleston.

The most fitting aesthetic for me :^)

[Monkey Dust]

I probably go with a large apartment in Paris.

[Bramimond]

40+ million bucks isn't enough money to let me dream. It's pocket change. For dreaming, I'd need at least a few hundred million times that much. Maybe $25.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 would be sufficient.

 

I'd build my own island and create a city to my liking with people of my choosing. Heaven is where you make it.

[Velcade]

5 minutes ago, Bramimond said:

I'd build my own island and create a city to my liking with people of my choosing.

Ah yes, the North Korea approach. 

[Guest]

A space station. Or the moon.