If you were a billionaire...

[ckissick]

What would you do/buy?

Me, I would buy a moderately priced house in Woodside, CA, the town I grew up in but cannot afford now. It would be about 4000 SF on at least 3 acres, with a pool, and cost about 10 to 20 million. That's moderately priced in Woodside. There's one place for sale right now for 135 million. As a billionaire, I could afford that, but that would be too over the top. I'd also get a nice lakefront house at Tahoe and a Chris Craft wooden boat. That's all the houses I would need. Well, maybe a beach house, too. In Hawaii.

I would buy into a private jet sharing program and travel a lot.

I would have a large barn with a couple dozen vintage cars, mostly Porsches and VWs, but also a few other odds and ends. The barn would include an awesome shop for the cars and also for woodworking.

That's about it.

[Jims5543]

[GH85Carrera]

A car collection like Jay Leno's and a staff of full time experts doing the repairs on the many varied and unusual toys like Jay has.

I guess I wanna be like Jay.

[varmint]

Keep my house and general lifestyle.

Maybe a few exotic motorcycles, airplanes, mistresses.

Fund a dog rescue.

Fund some sort of space exploration.

Target for removal a bunch of politicians.

[David Inc.]

Originally Posted by Jims5543

Thanks, I can now leave this thread a satisfied man.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

This is something I think about a lot. Three of the top things I would do:

Every low income child would get breakfast and lunch at school and a take home snack.

Erase the term "food deserts" from our lexicon by creating a nationwide chain of stores in low income neighborhoods selling only real food and have cooking lessons nights as well as reduced price pots/pans/utensils for shoppers.

Create a goon squad network to infiltrate and destroy child trafficking from organized rings to the pimp putting a strung out 16-year-old runaway on the streets.


there's a lot more. and a lot of details in the above that I have in Word docs.

[cockerpunk]

its fascinating to me that the american dream has changed into being rich enough to not have to participate in living in america anymore.



my answer, id go SRO pro racing probably. travel more. pay someone to work on my race cars instead of me.

[scotricker]

I'm just not as quick as this guy ! One Minute !

[matthewb0051]

Houses in:

Wimbledon or London
Garmisch Germany (in Alps)
Rome possibly
Monaco possibly

A few cars here and there but I really don't think I would go overboard on some brand new Mclaren or Ferrari. I'm so accustomed to the savings on pre-owned that even if I had that kind of money I'd still look at 2 or 3 year old vehicles.

Hawaii is simply too far and Oahu is too crowded and since the Anderson Estate has been sold on Oahu (Robin's Nest on original Magnum PI) Oahu is off my list. It would have to be Big Island or another.

[KFC911]

I'd buy every Pelican a beer!

Stay thirsty my friends

[stevej37]

I'd get the Disney Channel.
I want to see 'Get Back'

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Jims5543

ROFLMAO! I know exactly what that is.

"I'm pretty sure if I had a million (billion) I could hook that up too."

[VINMAN]

Open a home for wayward strippers...

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[masraum]

A billion is a bunch of dough, but I think it'd be pretty easy to get carried away.

A bunch would go into investments. Some would definitely be spent. We'd have some realestate. I'd like a relatively small home on a fair amount of land that was very rural. We'd probably also have something "in town". I suspect the missus would want a slightly different house than I would pick, but I'd be happy for her to have it. I'd probably have a couple/few cars. The missus and I would do a fair amount of travel.

[astrochex]

Help family with debts.

Then cars and home stereo upgrades.

[LWJ]

Not me. I had a conversation this Summer with a B-aire.

He really wanted to buy the Seahawks. Then he told me how NFL franchises increase in value about 40% a year. Which is about how Billionaire wealth increases. Conclusion? He is priced out and will never be able to afford the Seahawks.

I told him to look at Hockey...



Me? I would start an insidious secret plan to manipulate the world just for S's and Giggles. Like promote a HORRIBLE K-pop band or similar just to see if I could convince people to spend money on them.

The Kardashians are talented at this. And Bieber. And that Painter of Light guy.

Humans are stupid.

I get bored easily.

[masraum]

In case there's anyone that doesn't know...
freakin hilarious. that character was fantastic.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by LWJ

The Kardashians are talented at this.

I just don't get it.

And Bieber.

At least he does something.

And that Painter of Light guy.

??

Humans are stupid.

Amen

[doug_porsche]

Have a wallet with a built in TV that plays, on a continuous loop, the move Brewster's Millions every time i open the wallet

[zakthor]

Originally Posted by Jims5543

Yeah I mean... besides that.

Billion could make a big difference with lobbying.

Maybe get on same page as other like minded billionaires.

I'd try and improve the us education system. Maybe nationwide lobbying to fight stupid teacher union rules, advocate for cash incentives to attract and keep fantastic teachers.

Also advocate to raise estate and commercial real estate taxes.

Clean air and water? Global warming?

Polarization research?

Lots of stuff that can be done, find a few things that are achievable and work towards them.

Oh and I'd take college classes on stuff I'm interested in.