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I've always had a hankering to live somewhere very high up. Just the thought of having an apartment a thousand feet up... the view would be amazing.

But I also like the idea of solitude... a small island somewhere, a few miles offshore, a speedboat to go back and forth. A comfy place to live, but absolutely nobody else there, nobody for miles and miles.

If I were a billionaire I'd probably have places in a lot of major cities and places around the world. Just move from one to the next as I felt like.

I'm not sure if I can even conceive of what that sort of money can buy. My family is here; I'd probably by a nice $5 - $10 million house in one of the nicer shore towns here, and a vacation home in the Caribbean (perhaps) or in Hawai'i (more attractive, but a hao'le getting land there is just about a bitch, even regardless of the cost.)

Fix the boat - better, torch the boat and buy a Viking. Get that DB9 I've had my eye on, maybe an XLR or SC430 for the wife, and a nice Escalade or somesuch to tote the kids around. Set up a staggered bond ladder to provide rolling cap gains to cover the landscapers and such, invest in a couple of my cousins' businesses. and put a big chunk in the kids' 523's.

Plus, of course, the condos in Manhattan, L.A., New Orleans, London, Tokyo, Odessa...

That's something I've never really gotten. Owning a place in so many locales. No thanks. I like having one home, period. If I want to go somewhere I'll get a hotel room. I don't see the point in owning a place you live less than a month a year.

Tyyr wrote:That's something I've never really gotten. Owning a place in so many locales. No thanks. I like having one home, period. If I want to go somewhere I'll get a hotel room. I don't see the point in owning a place you live less than a month a year.

Who needs a point? We're talking about a billionaire. You'd have to make shit up just to spend money on in order to get through the day.

Or how about this... be your very own Captain Nemo!

http://obviousmag.org/en/archives/2008/ ... arine.html

I need a point. If I'm going to go through the trouble of buying a place, paying to furnish it, keep it up, pay the staff who takes care of it all the time, I need a real tangible benefit to doing that and I just can't see going to all that trouble for a place to stay when you want a long weekend away. A hotel penthouse makes more sense in those regards.

Yeah, I get that with that kind of money its not about saving it or being frugal but I still can't see the point in blowing the money unless I'm getting some kind of real tangible benefit out of it. My own plane, a big yacht, topless native girls just lounging around my house all the time, all provide a benefit I couldn't really substitute for but when I look at hotel room vs. owning a place I just don't see it.

Well for me, I don't like hotels. I don't like the feeling that you're in another person's space, that you have to be on at least something approaching your best behaviour because a stranger can come and demand access. Knowing that the place I am in is MINE, that I can chill out and relax and lock the world out because I am in my own space... that's important to me.

A private Submarine is something I'd love to have, though even the small ones available now apparently cost silly money to maintain.

I'm with Tyr on the multiple houses thing. I can barely maintain my little one room flat, I'd never manage to look after a a house, let alone half a dozen abodes across the globe. And I know you can get staff to do it with that money, but I'm not sure I'd want a bunch of strangers around anyways. That said, I dont like sleeping in strange beds either. Maybe few small apartments dotted about my fave cities.

My own plane would be nice, but something I could fly myself. Nice seaplane maybe.

I'd love to fly but, you know, colour blind.

Don't tell me they have traffic lights up there now as well?

If you're gonna buy a seaplane, buy a classic.

Catalina.

There's better. The Short C-Class, military variant, for example.

Captain Seafort wrote:There's better.

I sincerely disagree.

I might just be nationaly biased, but , Cat all the way. One of my all time fav's.