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Old Mar 16th 2013, 1:04 pm
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Lake Como/Garda
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Old Mar 16th 2013, 1:21 pm
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Default Re: ...if you won the lottery where would you live?

Originally Posted by cjones
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
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Old Mar 16th 2013, 4:35 pm
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Canford Cliffs - swanky area of Bournemouth

Flat in Berlin

Flat in LA area
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Old Mar 16th 2013, 4:42 pm
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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!
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Old Mar 16th 2013, 4:50 pm
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Anywhere I damn well liked but mostly Central London. I would stay in fancy hotels and never have to clean again.
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Old Mar 16th 2013, 5:13 pm
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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".
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Old Mar 16th 2013, 6:03 pm
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No hesitation in my mind - New Orleans, Louisiana.

The. Most. Amazing. City. Ever.
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Old Mar 16th 2013, 6:35 pm
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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.
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Old Mar 16th 2013, 6:44 pm
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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 !!!
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Old Mar 16th 2013, 6:47 pm
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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
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Originally Posted by getoutofbritainquick
.... 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!
Also, I'd probably take a punt on a smart 2006 Ford Mondeo I've seen on the Exchange and Mart website.
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Originally Posted by Oink
Also, I'd probably take a punt on a smart 2006 Ford Mondeo I've seen on the Exchange and Mart website.
That's livin'. L-I-V-I-N.

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Old Mar 16th 2013, 7:54 pm
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buy an old school bus pop in a wood stove and a bed and everywhere would be home
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Old Mar 16th 2013, 8:27 pm
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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!)
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Old Mar 16th 2013, 10:13 pm
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Originally Posted by Novocastrian
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.
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