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getoutofbritainquick Mar 16th 2013 3:42 am

...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
Canada has a lot of positives and negatives just like anywhere else. I cannot believe what is going on in Europe and would rather be in Canada at this moment in time. So here's the question, if you won the lottery and could move anywhere in the world were would you go if you had financial the freedom?:confused:

flat to the mat Mar 16th 2013 3:53 am

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
Would still keep the house here , but have an eye on a gorgeous place in Baltimore , West Cork , Ireland . Wife is saying NO but with a lottery win in hand she might change her mind , forget that , she will change her mind without doubt . :rofl:

getoutofbritainquick Mar 16th 2013 3:57 am

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 

Originally Posted by flat to the mat (Post 10606680)
Would still keep the house here , but have an eye on a gorgeous place in Baltimore , West Cork , Ireland . Wife is saying NO but with a lottery win in hand she might change her mind , forget that , she will change her mind without doubt . :rofl:

..would she stay with you?????;)

Piff Poff Mar 16th 2013 4:00 am

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
Our plan tonight, when we find out we have the winning numbers will be to take a long vacation somewhere lovely and then move out of our home while its renovated and buy a place in the UK and divide our time.:fingerscrossed:

getoutofbritainquick Mar 16th 2013 4:05 am

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 

Originally Posted by Piff Poff (Post 10606685)
Our plan tonight, when we find out we have the winning numbers will be to take a long vacation somewhere lovely and then move out of our home while its renovated and buy a place in the UK and divide our time.:fingerscrossed:

An Albertain hardcore - would you not like anywhere warm?:thumbup:

Oink Mar 16th 2013 4:16 am

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
Mayfair. Maybe buy a pub. :thumbup:

getoutofbritainquick Mar 16th 2013 4:26 am

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 

Originally Posted by Oink (Post 10606705)
Mayfair. Maybe be buy a pub. :thumbup:

.... the Playboy Club in Mayfair closed years ago. Used to love staring through the windows at the loverly bunnies. In Canada they shoot them as pests!:thumbdown:

JonboyE Mar 16th 2013 5:31 am

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
I would move one block south.

Piff Poff Mar 16th 2013 6:10 am

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 

Originally Posted by getoutofbritainquick (Post 10606691)
An Albertain hardcore - would you not like anywhere warm?:thumbup:

Not permanently, so many places to see in the world.

phat-dave Mar 16th 2013 6:33 am

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
monaco bitchessss

cjones Mar 16th 2013 6:46 am

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
Surely the beauty of coming into that kind of money is that you wouldn't have to live in any one place?.. But if pressed, I'd have to say Edmonton. They have a really big shopping centre with a water slide inside and miniature golf.

Beaverstate Mar 16th 2013 7:05 am

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
Snowbird in the winter, back home in the summer.

Dashie Mar 16th 2013 11:46 am

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
New Zealand :)

Novocastrian Mar 16th 2013 12:34 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
Moncton.

magnumpi Mar 16th 2013 12:38 pm

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Oakville

Dotty P Mar 16th 2013 1:04 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
Lake Como/Garda :wub:

HSJones Mar 16th 2013 1:21 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 

Originally Posted by cjones (Post 10606806)
Surely the beauty of coming into that kind of money is that you wouldn't have to live in any one place?..

I agree. I'd buy places in Valencia, London, Muskoka or similiar cottage area, New Zealand, in particular the west coast of the south island, somewhere in asia (can't decide between Laos, Thailand or Vietnam), and Cornwall or the Lake District, maybe both!

I'd also keep the house here in Toronto.

Oh to win the lottery :fingerscrossed:

scrubbedexpat133 Mar 16th 2013 4:35 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
Canford Cliffs - swanky area of Bournemouth

Flat in Berlin

Flat in LA area

mandymoochops Mar 16th 2013 4:42 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
We' stay right where we are and make the neighbour an offer he couldn't refuse for the adjoining sections of land. And build a big house where ours currently stands!

bats Mar 16th 2013 4:50 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
Anywhere I damn well liked but mostly Central London. I would stay in fancy hotels and never have to clean again.

Simon Legree Mar 16th 2013 5:13 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
I wouldn't change what I have now. Half the year in Arizona and the rest of it in Nova Scotia. It works for me. It's back to NS in a couple of weeks. Mustn't overstay my 162 day allowance and become "an illegal". :)

gb_griffiths Mar 16th 2013 6:03 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
No hesitation in my mind - New Orleans, Louisiana.

The. Most. Amazing. City. Ever.

christmasoompa Mar 16th 2013 6:35 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
I'd live exactly where I do now, even the same house, as it's my dream home anyway.

But I'd also have an apartment in NYC and a ski chalet in France. :thumbsup:

jimmydean Mar 16th 2013 6:44 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
I would split my year up 4 ways

Beach House, Cane Garden Bay, British Virgin Islands
Dakota Buildings, Upper West Side, NYC
Townhouse, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
Lakeside Villa, Bled, Slovenia


it would have to be a hell of a lottery win though !!! :thumbsup:

izzi81 Mar 16th 2013 6:47 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
It would have to be a few places.... House in Tuscany near cortona or Florence, house in north Vancouver, house in nova Scotia, flat in Edinburgh and perhaps a cottage on the Scottish highlands too :)

Oink Mar 16th 2013 7:37 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 

Originally Posted by getoutofbritainquick (Post 10606717)
.... the Playboy Club in Mayfair closed years ago. Used to love staring through the windows at the loverly bunnies. In Canada they shoot them as pests!:thumbdown:

Also, I'd probably take a punt on a smart 2006 Ford Mondeo I've seen on the Exchange and Mart website. :thumbup:

gb_griffiths Mar 16th 2013 7:50 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 

Originally Posted by Oink (Post 10607662)
Also, I'd probably take a punt on a smart 2006 Ford Mondeo I've seen on the Exchange and Mart website. :thumbup:

That's livin'. L-I-V-I-N.

;)

in the woods Mar 16th 2013 7:54 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
buy an old school bus pop in a wood stove and a bed and everywhere would be home

Zoe Bell Mar 16th 2013 8:27 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
right here, in this very building. But in the penthouse
I'd also have a cottage with my own hanger, plane and runway ( maybe a float plane!)

BristolUK Mar 16th 2013 10:13 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 10607129)
Moncton.

A vacancy has just opened up in my duplex. It's yours for $5000 a month.

Subject to references of course. I don't take any old riffraff.

magnumpi Mar 16th 2013 10:34 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 10607831)
A vacancy has just opened up in my duplex. It's yours for $5000 a month.

Subject to references of course. I don't take any old riffraff.

There are duplexes in Moncton? I thought it was all mansions and tree lined luxury lots, scrub that then, Oak ill it is.

For a day trip anyway

In reality, if we did win we would move to a Ajax lake fronted property and build up many many air miles for years to come.

Danny B Mar 16th 2013 10:34 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
Bognor Regis

Oink Mar 16th 2013 11:01 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 

Originally Posted by Danny B (Post 10607869)
Bognor Regis

Pervert. :p

Mikeypm Mar 16th 2013 11:35 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
I suppose it depends on how much the lotto win would be. I think we would buy a plot of land and build our own place in BC. Then get a few smaller places dotted round the world and rack up the air miles :)

Theoldfields Mar 16th 2013 11:46 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 

Originally Posted by Mikeypm (Post 10607937)
I suppose it depends on how much the lotto win would be. I think we would buy a plot of land and build our own place in BC. Then get a few smaller places dotted round the world and rack up the air miles :)

Now that does sound like a plan I could get used to.

Auld Yin Mar 16th 2013 11:50 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 

Originally Posted by Oink (Post 10607662)
Also, I'd probably take a punt on a smart 2006 Ford Mondeo I've seen on the Exchange and Mart website. :thumbup:

Well, now we all know what a classy person you're not.

Mikeypm Mar 16th 2013 11:51 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 

Originally Posted by Auld Yin (Post 10607957)
Well, now we all know what a classy person you're not.

2006 Mondeo its quite classy certainly a step up from a vectra

GC44 Mar 16th 2013 11:57 pm

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
A cottage in the Yorkshire dales, maybe around Goathland and a new build on our acreage 6 miles down the road here in Manitoba. We are getting the new build in the next couple of years anyway :thumbsup:. Plus a block booking for 6 weeks per year in a penthouse at the Hyatt Regency on the Hudson in New Jersey.

dbd33 Mar 17th 2013 1:50 am

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 
Camden.

ninaDGBCA Mar 17th 2013 3:35 am

Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?
 

Originally Posted by mandymoochops (Post 10607415)
We' stay right where we are and make the neighbour an offer he couldn't refuse for the adjoining sections of land. And build a big house where ours currently stands!

I would do exactly the same here. Buy another couple of acres next to our land, and build a barn, have some animals and grow some veg. In the future probably extend the house because if I won the lottery I'd defo have more kids :D


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