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What Would You Do if You Won $100,000,000?

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Just a fun thread where you can imagine winning $100mil and what you would do with it.

For me, obviously I'd quit working nights. There are some situations where I could imagine still working, but not working nights.

I'd stay in the SLC area. I might keep my current house, but I'd also get an apartment or condo or whatever downtown within walking distance (or electric scooter distance) of restaurants, bars, Jazz games and comedy club.

Then I'd want a large property somewhere in the valley where I could build a house and have an outbuilding dedicated to brewing. A nice fish pond and such would be nice. I'd want all that set far enough back that I wouldn't see or hear any traffic or anything else outside my property.

I might buy a decently high end car, nothing insane. I'm a fan of 4 door sedans. Don't need a truck, don't need an SUV.

I'd travel. I might look into some really long cruises that go from like Florida to England, to Spain, to Italy and all the way back.

I'd take my wife to a few of my favorite places I visited when I was in the Navy. Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai and Australia.

A year or so down the road I might consider opening a restaurant. Yeah, a restaurant, not a brewery. I have a pretty specific type of restaurant in mind that doesn't exist in Utah at the moment. The location would absolutely have to be downtown on Main St very close to a Trax stop. If that went well I'd consider adding a brewery to it.

How about the rest of you?
 
1st things 1st. I'd quit my job. Don't know if I'd want another one.

I'd buy a Park City home in a neighborhood. $3 mill tops. Good for entertaing but somewhat modest.

2nd home in Tuscon.

Toys.

Might start a food truck.

Donate to the arts, education,
 
Wes Mantooth said:
And what type of restaurant? Don’t play all ****ing coy.
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Well if I say what it is someone will beat me to it. I think it would work and be amazing but the location is critical. I'll PM you but you have to promise not to tell.
 
I think I wouldn't quit the job immediately. I would enjoy working and being able to be perfectly honest with some people. I guess I would test the limits of how long they would tolerate me than. I would definitely buy myself a top instrument (I am a violinist) and than just play for fun with people I like. Old mansion in England, yacht and oldtimer car would be definitely on the list. And I would pay some guys to visit Conley and make him an offer he couldn't refuse so that he opts out of his contract.
 
Okay, well assuming it’s 100M after taxes, I’d:

1) Hire the best ****ing lawyer/estate/ tax people I can.
2) Quit. No way I’m teaching another day. I’d prob have five different kids accuse me of fabricated bs, all because their parents told em to make stories up, with the hope of winning millions from me. No way I take a chance with that. **** my 60 days notice. Take my license.
3) Diversely invest about 60M. Even if I only earned 4% interest, I’d make 2.4M per year. And that would be my threshold. Spend no more than 2.4M a year.
4) Give 10M to closest family and maybe (maybe) friends. Sorry, there has to be a cutoff. If you don’t like it, don’t take it. Oh yeah, and you’ll never get another penny.
5) Sell my current house.
6) With the 30M leftover, build a sweet *** 3-5M place in or near SLC. Crazy energy efficient. 6-8 bedrooms. 4-5 baths. Chef’s kitchen. Land...at least 3/4 of an acre. Probably more like 1-2. Home theatre. Like that.
7) Buy a shore house here. I love the Jersey shore. The show by the same name taints what are many, many great shore towns without all the Italian flexing. I’d buy one on the beach or main road somewhere for around 1.5-3M. And get the best flood/hurricane insurance I can. I’m not totally stupid.
8) Buy a home in Italy. So many choices where. In some spots, they’re essentially literally giving away home and properties that need fixing and are in communities that are struggling. This would prob be 500K all-in. Let’s say 1M.
Side note: Those three mortgages would only run me about $90,000 per month or 1.1M per year leaving me 1.3M more to spend in property taxes, and such. And such being...
9) Hire the best companies possible to maintain said residences when I’m not there.
10) Find a job. This is very important to me. I do not want my kids thinking they’re entitled and just going to inherit. In fact, I would do everything in my power to hide them from the fact that we won the lottery. I’d prefer they live a relatively normal life. If our main house was in the aforementioned shore town, we could send them to private school whose cost is negligible. But I’d leave and work every day, to keep busy and stimulated yes, but more so to set an example. They will need to work too.
11) Parent. This should probably be higher on my list. I wouldn’t bounce all over the globe and put the kids on my parents or some nanny. It’s not right. Maybe once or twice a year for semi-shorter stints. And in the summer with them. But they need parents.
12) Travel. I have so many places I want to go. The RN40 as a sort of existential experience. Italy. Spain. France. Germany. England. Hell, virtually all of Europe frankly. New Zealand, Japan, and probably another 30-40 countries and 30-40 specific locales. But I wouldn’t leave my kids forever. It’s not right.
13) Hire some of the best people to come and teach me and my children how to cook. To teach my kid’s piano or guitar or whatever. To master carpentry. And other such rewarding, fulfilling activities.
14) Read more. And write. This has always been my dream. To live the last 15-20+ years of my life in peace, writing.
15) Approach the Millers about part ownership. Enough that it would get me a voice in meetings. I probably would not want to invest more than about 30M...which is probably only enough to net me 1-1.5% of the team.
16) Buy Jazz season tix.
 
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Move my butt to New Zealand, somewhere on the South Island (what up OL). Talk my mother into retiring and moving with us. Pay off my own, friends, and family debts (mainly student). Set a bunch aside for investing (say 80%). Travel with the wife/toddler for a bit (minus the whole Corona thing). Have the next kid sooner than currently planned. I appear to not be the only with some form of food dream, might look into some type of small restaurant. Find a nice 90's Corolla.
 
Eminence said:
Move my butt to New Zealand, somewhere on the South Island (what up OL). Talk my mother into retiring and moving with us. Pay off my own, friends, and family debts (mainly student). Set a bunch aside for investing (say 80%). Travel with the wife/toddler for a bit (minus the whole Corona thing). Have the next kid sooner than currently planned. I appear to not be the only with some form of food dream, might look into some type of small restaurant. Find a nice 90's Corolla.
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Are there any nice 90's Corollas?

80's Corollas was were it was at imo.
 
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