Location, Location, Location 15/10/09

PasturesNew

I'd get a Porsche though ... for pickiing up hot young things in

SingleSue

I would get a house for approx £500k, plenty of very nice ones for that around here with lots of bedrooms.

I wouldn't get a Porche though, be a bit of a begger trying to fit the kids in it too for the school run but would upgrade my car to something a little bit newer than one 17 years old!

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd get a Porsche though ... for pickiing up hot young things in

I already have the house I'd want. Large detached in the country.

So I'd spend most of it on wine, women (well, one woman, the wife) and fast cars.......... And I'd waste the rest.:D

(to misquote George Best)

Mr_Matey

I wouldn't buy a house. I'd scatter the money in investments, take a 6-month "career break" and travel the world.

Guess that sums up my priorties and thoughts on house prices right now.

longtimelurker_2

Did you see what the lottery winner lady did to her lips?!!?

Harry_Powell

If I was spending that sort of money, I'd buy a house that paid its own way. Farm house with stabling, B&B or some other business related venture. I think that a lot of lottery winners end up broke because they don't make their money work for them. They buy a fancy house and forget that it'll take a lot more money to run it and maintain it than their old 3 bed semi did.

robin_banks

I'd buy a place in the peak district.

I'd also run a second hand record shop playing post-punk and dub/ska all day, a coffee shop would be attached as I know full well this wouldn't exactly be a money making venture.

I might try my hand at brewing my own real ale.

'Wow factors' and 'renovation projects' aren't me I'm afraid.

purch

It would be 'interesting' to compare what you could have done with £ 1.8 million if you had won that in the first ever Lottery draw, compared to winning that amount today.

Mr_Matey

Friday lunchtime daydream time. If I won £1.8m:

• I wouldn't tell anyone except family and my closest friends about it.
• £100k to help build fiancee's parents a place.
• Up the wedding budget.
• £20k invested for each of my nieces/nephews (currently 8 of them), that they could access at age 18.
• travel for 6-12 months - including Galapogas Is., Botswana and Antarctica.
• Buy myself a shiny new Lotus.
• Invest the rest.

After my trip I'd go back to my current career. Houses can wait, there's a lot more to life.

Jastons

I would be more concerned about the amount of land I could buy and what I could do with that rather than buying a house with 4 en-suite bathrooms.

I would want enough room for 2 or 3 dogs to run around all day, a huge Koi pond and possibly an orchard so I can make my own scrumpy.