If you were rich, what would you buy?

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I'd totally get a company to fabricate my specifically designed, self-propelled and autonomous killbot, who I'll call Rex, and he'll be my pet, friend and guardian.

I'd buy a house in the country

A Ludwig drum kit, custom made with the Kinks logo from 1965

Kinks inspired clothes, because I can

A 1965 Buick painted in loud colours

A pea green laptop with a 17 inch screen

A bed that makes itself

A remote controlled vaccum cleaner

Last, but not least, white adult training pants, so I'm not embarrassed to try on clothes in public - 50 pairs

it depends on how rich.

i guess i would have to donate some to the poor.

i have already enough to do me. i have 2 houses. one is a 6 bedroom 2 storey house that i no longer live in and my niece lives there (free of rent grrr (long story)), and a small wooden one storey 3 bedroom house in bushland that i currently live in. i also have enough money in the bank to generate $1600 per month in interest on top of my salary so i am happy enough. i donate modest amounts every month to the smith family ($30) , and the red cross ($30), and world vision($40), and kidzwish foundation ($30) and humane society international ($50).

anyway, if i was richer...
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if i had $10,000,000 i would maybe put $2,000,000 in a bank account that pays high interest, and donate the interest to animal welfare and the neediest people. interest rates were @ 8% before the GFC, so that would be al $160,000 per annum.

i would also put $3,000,000 in a similar account and live off the $240,000 p.a interest.
i would give $30,000 p.a to both my friends.

with the other $5,000,000, i would buy a very large property (up to 10,000 acres), and get a bulldozer and build an airstrip and buy a plane to drive there. it would be maybe a cessna or a piper twin engine. i would pilot it.

i would build a house there (well get one built) and live until i die in peace with my animal friends. i have many animal friends where i currently live though, so i would never leave here., but if.. say... a highway was built through my house and i had to go, that is where i would go. i would buy tractors and dozers. i would also outfit myself with a metal working shed and a laboratory.

one may say "you could not get 10,000 acres for less than $5,000,000", but it is much cheaper than that if the land is not suitable for any kind of produce like agriculture or grazing or mining. the land can still be very appealing to me even if it has no productive value.

a quick search on an australian real estate site yielded a property within the first page of results that is 168 acres for only $75,000. here is a few pics










i like that area and i am seriously considering getting that property. 168 acres is quite private and large

it is not beyond the bounds of possibility to attain $10,000,000 if i try as hard as i can and get the right advice for another 25 years.
if i had $10,000,000 the property i would get would be much bigger than this)
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beyond the bounds of possibility.

if i had $100,000,000 (edit again) (and could not live where i currently live (i would not leave here and abandon my animal friends even if i had $100,000,000)), i would do the donation thing x 10 ($1,600,000 p.a to the poor and animals) , and the interest for my income x 10 ($2,400,000 p.a) (i would give $300,000 p.a to both my friends (tammy and another mark (actually i would give tammy $400,000 and mark $200,000 p.a))

i would buy a parcel of forest about 100,000 acres in size and fence it off and get rid of all feral animals like dogs and cats and foxes. i would not have them killed. they are beautiful animals too. i would have them trapped and released outside my fence.
then i would keep it as a natural sanctuary for all the defenseless innocent slow witted marsupials like koalas and possums and sugar gliders and quolls etc etc. birds would obviously not be affected by the fence, and i love birds as much as any other animal. i hope not many hawks or falcons of eagles or owls come near, but i cannot control nature to that degree. my house would still only be a few rooms. i am not interested in glamor or glitz. i think tracksuit pants are the most comfortable leg wear, and loose tee shirts the most comfortable torso wear. i would remain wearing them.
my old mercedes is a nice car and i would keep it.
i would not buy ferrari's etc because the novelty would wear off soon. after i have become used to full power, i would not bother to keep flooring it, and the ride is crap (too harsh) anyway. i would end up preferring my old mercedes again for it plush ride.

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if i had a $billion, then multiply all what i said before by ten (except the size of my house)

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this is fantasy even in the minds of the richest on earth:
i will not include altruistic stuff in this scenario because it is purely ridiculous dreaming.
if i had 1 trillion dollars, then i would contribute many $billions to research on nano tubes and try to facilitate the discovery of a process where they can be quickly produced. then i would facilitate the construction of a "space elevator".
(just quickly, a space elevator is a tube that is anchored on the ground at one end, and a counterweight at the other end about 25,000 miles away. there are various ideas on how to climb through the tube in the transporter (laser pulse or my idea of vacuum assistance) , but i will not go into technicalities here because it is a light hearted thread.

anyway, i would have 3 vacuum and cosmic ray tight mansions built at the top of the elevator.

one mansion would be stationary with respect to the platform of the dock. i would be weightless in it. i would get space sick quickly i would suspect. when you are in space, you feel as if you are in fre fall, but your senses do not concur so you get sick.

another mansion would be built on a girder that rotates on a pivot. the girder would be about 10 miles long (so my floor could be relatively flat), and i would mechanically orbit the pivot with a frequency that produced 1 g of gravity (centrifugal). the floor of my mansion would be facing away from the pivot so that 1g of centrifugal force is at 90 degrees to my horizontal standing alignment.

that would be the one i lived in for a few weeks every time i visited (i would want to return to my animal friends on earth after a short while). i would be astounded at the view of the entire earth outside my panoramic bullet proof (junk proof) windows. it would be wonderful to pop up there to muse for a few hours and then go to sleep every night after i have fed and petted all my animal friends, and come back every morning to live life on earth until 11pm.

the third mansion would be a detachable unit that blasts itself laterally away from the dock platform at the top of the elevator. it would accelerate to a higher orbit and do a few rotations of the earth for my appraisal, and then it could be retroed to dock safely again from the opposite side at the end of my final circumnavigation.

it would be a wonderful thing to sit in a darkened large comfy room with the whole wall composed of super strong glass (or other transparent material) and watch every country on earth pass by underneath as i eat my confectionery. i would see every hurricane and see every plume of smoke and all the city lights as it is right at that instant and it would be so ....i cannot think of adequate words.

but there would be zero gravity in that orbiting mansion, so unless i could not get the hang of ignoring the "free fall" feeling, i would not enjoy it.

god i have to stop here. my brakes are very bad, so i will run into the sidewalk to slow me up.
sorry for the tirade of stuff i posted (if i was truly that sorry i would not hit the "submit" button in 3 seconds time..)

last edit : i am so sloppy tonight i have had to edit out typo's and uncompleted bracket structures and i feel thick of communicative mind

Wow b9, I thought I had thought things through, but you've taken it to a whole new level!

I would give all the money to the needy. But if I did have some cash for me, I would buy a top European Football club and become owner/chairman.

I would buy experiences. I'd have to be pretty rich, but I'd hire a private tutor for my son and just travel from place to place. I'd rent places here and there and spend enough time in each place to really get to know it.

If I were rich I would build my dream house. I have the blueprints for it. It is a 5745 square foot mansion designed in 1964 (the year of my birth). The house is also a key setting in a novel I am working on.

Buick Enclave
Loft in a trendy, artsy neighborhood
Furniture from Ikea
Home theater system

I'd give a lot to charity (NOT Autism Speaks!! !), but with the rest I'd buy:

A 1971 Ford Cortina with a softop, custom painted blue with a Sportacus stripe down the left hand side and the number 10 on the door.

A nice house in Iceland where all the indoor walls are lilac, with a recording studio and a room to write my published work.

Comission an archietect to build the tallest building in Iceland, at 200 metres, to be used as flats and business.

Buy out Lazytown Entertainment so they never face bankruptcy.

Get my own personal tailor.

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Happiness.

I'd first spend the money on myself.

I would spend money on 3 White on White Nike Air Force Ones, and 3 Black on Black Nike Air Force Ones. Then I would buy as many Nike Air Max 360/90 as I can. Then I will buy a few cool Nike running shoes, complete with cotton Nike T-shirts that have good designs.

Then I would buy the latest computers.

Then I would buy a dilapilated house in Detroit, Michigan and then slowly rehabilitating it, with the latest gadgets and electronics stuff coupled with 3 cars: Cadillac Escalade, Hummer H2 and Chevrolet Aveo. I think Black Bottom would make a nice place to live. Then occasionally, I will just hang out with buddies outside...

Subsquently I would buy many bookshelves, complete with good books. I will be happy that I am so rich, I don't need to have a PhD to be considered as 'rich and knowledgeable'.

Thereafter, I will just donate as much as I can to either WrongPlanet.net or any good organization that supports we autistics advocating our own rights, while concentrating my efforts into self-financed books that can only be published under various pen names. I will only speak whenever I feel the need to, to maximize the impact of every event I go to.

That is, if I have a few billion dollars, I can even buy myself peace and quiet while doing so many good things.

I'd buy myself a two-bedroomed house as this would be sufficient for my needs. I would then buy as many properties as possible and rent them out to give me a stable income, or I'd become a property developer. Or maybe a mixture of the two, who knows? But then I'm never going to be rich, I've come from the wrong background.