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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    zenno wrote: »
    I'd keep 6 million and give the rest away. I would live very happily with 6 million, I'd live very happily just from the interest on 6 million so the bulk would go to good causes. Bigtime.

    Ffs :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    1 million would do me fine, but when I heard of 1 billion/billionaire, I thought 6 million would be reasonable :p

    @ Mint Aero

    Ffs ... Indeed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    zenno wrote: »
    1 million would do me fine, but when I heard of 1 billion i thought 6 million would be reasonable :p

    994 million down the swaney? Would you give me 10 millions :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 313 ✭✭my teapot is orange


    Primary Residence: Paris
    Rural: Somewhere coastal in Australia (can't decide)
    City: NYC
    Other: Berlin
    Other: Dublin


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    994 million down the swaney? Would you give me 10 millions :)

    Nope, not in a long shot. I would make a policy that sticks like epoxy-resin, to make sure the 994 million got to the homeless in Ireland for housing firstly.


    Oh, and the six million I stated wouldn't be just for myself, it would be shared within the family and friends, so i'd probably have 3 million to myself which is enough for me to travel the world so happy days, with icing on top.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    zenno wrote: »
    Nope, not in a long shot. I would make a policy that sticks like epoxy-resin, to make sure the 994 million got to the homeless in Ireland for housing firstly.

    I'll become homeless for a bit of moola, not a bother boss :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭kwestfan08


    Primary: Manhattan Penthouse

    Rural: Does Bora Bora count as rural? :P. If not my own gaff at the minute in Cavan

    City: Vegas. I would imagine a billionaire would be able to get up to some fun in Las Vegas.

    #4. Miami
    #5. Somewhere like Phuket or some other beach chillout locale


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭deseil


    Primary residence Avoca Wicklow
    City:Amsterdam
    Rural: Pioppi, Campania Italy
    Other: Maastricht
    Other: Carcassone


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    I'll become homeless for a bit of moola, not a bother boss :)

    But ye see, if I gave you a million 'say' then you will be like the rest of the politicians of Ireland, and will not understand what it is like to live in the real world, and also not understand how the real-world functions. So ye see, we can't have that at all.


  • Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm a billionaire - I'm pretty sure I could buy a whole island somewhere.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    Fecking Oirish and their obsession with brick boxes. So boring!

    Why bother if you could just travel the world in your own custom built airship?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Primary residence: nice home (but not overly flashy) in a tax haven country (Isle of Man, Switzerland, Cayman Islands, Kuwait, Qatar, etc.) Will also get citizenship of said tax haven country, so I can avail of the low-tax status and so on. Will spend the minimum amount of time required living in this house, as I'm only using it to be a tax exile. (note: primary residence in the loosest sense of the word... only a de joure "primary" residence... de facto, I'm living somewhere else most of the time in my property empire; think I cheated a bit)

    City dwelling: a luxury penthouse-apartment/townhouse overlooking/on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris.

    Rural property: a huge ranch out in Texas. Where I can keep steers, play the cowboy and rub shoulders with the oil barons and so on.

    Property 4: a luxury home somewhere in Dublin 4 or in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains.

    Property 5: luxury penthouse apartment overlooking Las Vegas Boulevard ("The Strip") in Las Vegas. This residence would primarily be used for just having a pure time of hedonism.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    Hmmmm


    Crashpad penthouse in the centre of Amsterdam
    House in the Dublin mountains. (maybe north wicklow)
    Penthouse in the V&A in Capetown
    Farm somewhere near Bela Bela
    Winter cottage in Austria


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    No property at all.
    Too much responsibility: agents, maids, painters, gardeners etc. All robbing you blind when your backs turned.
    For me it would be a good hotel, with good facilities and .....taxis everywhere:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    I'd move to Zimbabwe and become bagilgaziltrillionaire.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    foxyboxer wrote: »
    I'd move to Zimbabwe and become bagilgaziltrillionaire.

    You could probably do that now

    http://www.significancemagazine.org/SpringboardWebApp/userfiles/sig/image/ChampkinUploads/Zimbabwe_$100_trillion_2009_Obverse(1).jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭GobBass


    Primary: A Georgian townhouse in Clontarf for a start, this one in particular:

    http://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/prospect-house-the-crescent-clontarf-dublin-3/2659144

    However, if I wanted space, its a toss-up between this mansion in Howth surrounded by woodland and sea...

    http://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/windgate-windgate-road-baily-howth-dublin-county/2626891

    ..or Ashtown Lodge near the Phoenix Park, which was given a brilliant write-up in the Irish Times recently.

    http://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/ashtown-lodge-river-road-castleknock-dublin-15/2521108

    ____

    City: A loft/penthouse in Berlin, preferably in Dahlem or the more central Mitte.

    Country: Celbridge Demesne hands down, big ass house with 600 acres less than an hour outside Dublin, not bad. :D

    Other: Penthouse in New York. You MUST see this, it is the most stunning property I've ever seen. I've promised myself I would buy it if the Euromillions ever came up.

    http://priceypads.com/tribeca-penthouse-24500000/

    Do I have too much time on my hands? Perhaps.

    But a young lad can dream.


  • Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    jesus, just checked out that New York Penthouse. Thats one sexy bathroom


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Primary Residence: Dublin. Outside the City Centre on the Southside.
    City Dwelling: London (Very Posh London)
    Rural: Sweden (northern). I have been intrigued by the place since I seen The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

    Other 2 would be:
    Monte Carlo
    California (The nice areas)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭LETS BE AVN IT


    San Diego - USA primary
    Waterford - city
    Ibiza - countryside Villa
    Shinoukville Cambodia - beach house
    Prague - penthouse


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭Uaru


    Primary: Dublin City Centre
    Rural: Brazil near Manaus
    City: Rotterdam
    Lisbon
    Berlin


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,760 Mod ✭✭✭✭ToxicPaddy


    Private Island located in the Caribbean and build a decent size house, nothing extreme just a large comfortable type lodge and a few guest houses, like a little village type setup..

    Then spend the rest of the time enjoying time with my family and friends with no interruptions.

    No other fancy pads required, sure with that money I can stay in any hotel I want and be waited on hand n foot.

    I might invest in a decent boat too, but there is no rush for that :P


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    San Diego - USA primary
    Waterford - city
    Ibiza - countryside Villa
    Shinoukville Cambodia - beach house
    Prague - penthouse

    Dan Deigo is one of the most mind numblingly boring cities in America.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Seaneh wrote: »
    Dan Deigo is one of the most mind numblingly boring cities in America.

    Waterford is on his list too :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭Garzard


    Primary: Large suburban gaff in LA / Florida.

    City: Haven't really thought much about it but probably Helsinki, random but hey, beautiful city & beautiful country!

    Rural: Somewhere easily accessible in the Irish Midlands or a large open spot just outside Dublin. IF there was enough cash remaining and planning permission allowed, I'd convert it into a giant airsoft site and would maybe build another one for paintballers. Cheap enough entry + access to everywhere inside it. In it there'd be an urban area with fake estates, towers, forts, high rises, streets, apartment blocks, a shopping centre, a power station...everything a typical town or city would have. I'd also grow a large forested area to replicate the Battle of the Bulge, ''beach'' replicating D-Day, (beside a hypothetical lake) full of pillboxes, tank traps, and airsoft machine gun / artillery emplacements, a small airfield area full of retired and destroyed planes and tower, a dark underground area, and finally if there was enough room, a massive open area to replicate Kursk with trenches, (safe) barbed wire, machine gun posts, tank traps, dug in WW2 tanks, and a minefield full of airsoft mines.

    To add realism there would also be fires, smoke screens, old army vehicles and burnt out cars everywhere, especially in the town and Kursk area. (These could be sourced easily from both military and civilian scrapyards) Basically what a war ravaged city and country would look like. Think something like this would be great fun and would attract worldwide airsoft attention, countless tourist players and massive revenue! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭LETS BE AVN IT


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    Waterford is on his list too :pac:

    Hey leave me alone :P I like Zoo's and Blaa's I will have a great time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭newbie2013


    I would get every single note i can with the money and have a big bonefire. Money is the dirtiest thing on this planet and the less of it the better IMO.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Cities: Berlin, London, New York City
    Rural: Lake District, Maine, Co. Wicklow


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭Eutow


    Primary - Toronto
    City - Budapest
    Rural - Somewhere in Spain
    Then a holiday home in The Bahamas & one other one in Malta


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭General General


    Primary - Galway

    City - Galway

    Countryside - Galway

    4th Inis Oir - all of it, the whole f`cken thing.

    5th Next door to Simon Cowell... I wouldn't live there, I'd just have a massive buzzer go off every few minutes. If he moved, I'd sell up this property & move next door to him again...


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