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Possibly random question...
Jan. 21st, 2006 03:48 amThis isn't a meme or anything, I'm just curious.
Here in the UK, we have - like a lot of countries I think - a national lottery. We're also part of a Euro lottery which is the same as any other lottery only people from all over Europe buy tickets, so the prizes are bigger but there's also a hell of a lot less chance of winning.
Anyway, that aside - the prize this week is a rollover and it's currently at £85 million. And I was wondering, basically...what would y'all do if you won that much money? Bear in mind that it is possible for a single person to win the whole lot - about a year ago, a woman in Ireland won £74 million off a rollover.
Personally, I'd take great pleasure in buying a lot of things for friends and family. My close friends would all get a house and car. I'd buy the house I'm living in now (gorgeous Victorian thing) and do all the maintenance it needs...that would have the added bonus of helping my housemate out, as she owns it but is moving to Australia in a year so will have to sell it.
I'd buy a funky place on Venice Beach in LA, and an apartment in New York that my mother and I could use when visiting my sister that lives there. Sister would get a new house too and if she wanted to go back to college, I'd pay her tuition. My mother would get her dream house built, wherever in the world she wanted and she'd never have to see another bill in her life.
As for me personally - I wouldn't work. A lot of people say 'It wouldn't change me, I'd stay at my job' etc. Fuck that, says I. I'd write, all the time - and travel. Winters would be spent skiing and snowboarding on the best slopes in the world, the rest of the time I'd just go wherever the hell I felt like. I'd probably use NYC as my base because that's the place I love most - but probably eleven months of the year would be spent round the world. I'd fly my mates out to the places they'd want to go and meet up with me, I'd write all the time...it'd be cool.
But I hasten to add - I'm not the sort of person who hopes to win things to get somewhere in life. I've only bought one regular lottery ticket in the last year and have never bought one of the Euro ones. But it's nice to think about sometimes, y'know? So - well, I was just curious. What would y'all do with that kind of cash?
Here in the UK, we have - like a lot of countries I think - a national lottery. We're also part of a Euro lottery which is the same as any other lottery only people from all over Europe buy tickets, so the prizes are bigger but there's also a hell of a lot less chance of winning.
Anyway, that aside - the prize this week is a rollover and it's currently at £85 million. And I was wondering, basically...what would y'all do if you won that much money? Bear in mind that it is possible for a single person to win the whole lot - about a year ago, a woman in Ireland won £74 million off a rollover.
Personally, I'd take great pleasure in buying a lot of things for friends and family. My close friends would all get a house and car. I'd buy the house I'm living in now (gorgeous Victorian thing) and do all the maintenance it needs...that would have the added bonus of helping my housemate out, as she owns it but is moving to Australia in a year so will have to sell it.
I'd buy a funky place on Venice Beach in LA, and an apartment in New York that my mother and I could use when visiting my sister that lives there. Sister would get a new house too and if she wanted to go back to college, I'd pay her tuition. My mother would get her dream house built, wherever in the world she wanted and she'd never have to see another bill in her life.
As for me personally - I wouldn't work. A lot of people say 'It wouldn't change me, I'd stay at my job' etc. Fuck that, says I. I'd write, all the time - and travel. Winters would be spent skiing and snowboarding on the best slopes in the world, the rest of the time I'd just go wherever the hell I felt like. I'd probably use NYC as my base because that's the place I love most - but probably eleven months of the year would be spent round the world. I'd fly my mates out to the places they'd want to go and meet up with me, I'd write all the time...it'd be cool.
But I hasten to add - I'm not the sort of person who hopes to win things to get somewhere in life. I've only bought one regular lottery ticket in the last year and have never bought one of the Euro ones. But it's nice to think about sometimes, y'know? So - well, I was just curious. What would y'all do with that kind of cash?
