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Where exactly would you live if you won the Lottery?

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 04/03/2026 14:27

Please include photos/rightmove links so I can judge your tastes!

Me - I am watching Owning Manhattan, planning my life after winning £100,000,000 (I dream modestly) - and would live in a NY skyscraper!

Something like this: https://111w57.com/

Please do share/judge my excellent taste 😌

111 West 57th Street

111 West 57th Street is the premier residential property in Manhattan offering extraordinary views and an unparalleled level of privacy and highly-personalized services.

https://111w57.com

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LadyWiddiothethird · 04/03/2026 21:57

RobinEllacotStrike · 04/03/2026 17:23

Nice larger house around the corner, and a small beach cottage on Dungeness.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/167071676#/?channel=RES_BUY

I love Dungeness! I am on my own,not sure how spooky it would be at night.

BoredZelda · 04/03/2026 21:42

Pinkissmart · 04/03/2026 21:12

I’d live somewhere close to Tower Bridge. Don’t know why

I have a friend who lives in the Tower of London. Is that close enough? 😆

BoredZelda · 04/03/2026 21:42

FFSToEverythingSince2020 · 04/03/2026 16:05

I came to Scotland for a reason and I don’t want to be anywhere else. I would absolutely love having this - bedroom for me and DH, a shared office, and the other bedrooms would be for older foster kids. It’s my dream to foster older kids, if I had the space.
https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gbabrsabs200012

OMG! I used to date a guy who lived in that house nearly 40 years ago!

OakleyStreetisnotinChelsea · 04/03/2026 21:22

Here. I like it here and I have friends. But I would get someone in to sort out some leaks and actually finish the renovations.

Then I would buy a house in the south of France and a cabin in the woods in Finland and split my time between them all. I have the right to an EU passport so I don't need to worry about the 90 day rule.

StandingOnaCornerInWinslowArizona · 04/03/2026 21:21

Here.

I've loved Hampshire since I was a small child and try to visit regularly.

I would move here in a heartbeat. Just need to start manifesting.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/171407135?utmcampaign=property-details&utmcontent=new-homes&utmmedium=sharing&utmsource=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RESNEW

Pinkissmart · 04/03/2026 21:12

I’d live somewhere close to Tower Bridge. Don’t know why

nylon2026 · 04/03/2026 21:04

mumofoneAloneandwell · 04/03/2026 19:51

Omg excuse me?!?!?!?!!

So at least 50k A MONTH in charges?!

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Convert it to sterling, it won't seem so bad 😂

tobee · 04/03/2026 21:00

Many, many places

Tenofcups · 04/03/2026 20:02

A villa in Ibiza with a sea view.

0o0oo · 04/03/2026 19:56

If it was a euro millions, I’d love to live on a massive ranch in a rural part of the USA

shellyleppard · 04/03/2026 19:56

Portobello beach just outside Edinburgh.... beautiful beaches and the best ice cream 🍨 ❤️

Riapia · 04/03/2026 19:53

I wouldn’t buy a house.
It’s been my dream for years to live in hotels.
I’d spend the rest of my life living in hotels. Maybe spending a couple of months in each and then moving on to another interesting location.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 04/03/2026 19:51

nylon2026 · 04/03/2026 19:15

We do live in a house that I wouldn't change for anything, but I could do with a pied-a-terre

I'd make a few changes, but this would do

https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/detail/180-l-1182-ey2r9l/28-laight-street-6ab-tribeca-new-york-ny-10013

@mumofoneAloneandwell Yes, NY apartments do have monthly fees. Maintenance fees if it's a coop and common charges if it's a condo. In your preferred building they're quite expensive (these are monthly):

common charges (CC) ranging from approximately $20,530 to over $36,947, plus monthly taxes between $22,443 and $40,390 for top-tier units.

Omg excuse me?!?!?!?!!

So at least 50k A MONTH in charges?!

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Karistyleaftea · 04/03/2026 19:49

I love the location where I currently live but there is a house around the corner from me which I really do covet.
It is an Edwardian villa, the new owners completed works on it maybe a year ago and I smile every time I walk past it.
I would love to see inside it although I know I can't afford it.
I'd love to buy a bigger house for my DC too .

Bigbus · 04/03/2026 19:41

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/71441731/

obviously would have to change the insane decor and probably win the lottery 4 times but I’ve always wanted to live somewhere on the Thames with a view of Tower Bridge!

NoSoupForU · 04/03/2026 19:30

No links because where I'd live doesn't exist yet. I'd buy some remote land and build a farmhouse barn type pad. I wouldn't want too many bedrooms because I wouldn't want people to come and stay.

I'd have a workshop though.

Location, probably Scotland or middle England.

LVhandbagsatdawn · 04/03/2026 19:20

I fell in love with this when it came up a few years ago:

https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/article/cecil-beatons-reddish-house-is-for-sale

If they'd accept a generous cash offer I'd move, but to be honest I'm happy where I am really!

Full disclaimer: where I am now is in no way comparable to the house in the article Grin

Edit: found the listing! Source: Savills https://share.google/jXurMgSyNEhRwnBNI

Cecil Beaton's idyllic Reddish House is for sale

This house has surely had one of the more glamorous histories in 20th-century England, and it could be yours for £4 million.

https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/article/cecil-beatons-reddish-house-is-for-sale

nylon2026 · 04/03/2026 19:15

We do live in a house that I wouldn't change for anything, but I could do with a pied-a-terre

I'd make a few changes, but this would do

https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/detail/180-l-1182-ey2r9l/28-laight-street-6ab-tribeca-new-york-ny-10013

@mumofoneAloneandwell Yes, NY apartments do have monthly fees. Maintenance fees if it's a coop and common charges if it's a condo. In your preferred building they're quite expensive (these are monthly):

common charges (CC) ranging from approximately $20,530 to over $36,947, plus monthly taxes between $22,443 and $40,390 for top-tier units.

Anononony · 04/03/2026 19:02

I'd live in one of the national parks, either snowdonia (closest to where we are), peak district or lake district, and a lakeside property somewhere in california during the winter!

ThatPearlkitty · 04/03/2026 18:57

same place, but then id have a second place to use as and when needed

MatchaTea1 · 04/03/2026 18:51

PruthePrune · 04/03/2026 14:52

Funnily enough I was thinking about this the other day. I like where I live, have got nice neighbours, sea view and have never had any trouble whilst living here. TBH I don't know if I would actually move.

I'm the same I love our house and where we live so the medium term we would stay where we are :)

ChequerToRed · 04/03/2026 18:50

BeagleSkunk · 04/03/2026 18:33

I’ve just phone googling for this, it’s lovely!

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Isn’t it great? Alas, the M5 is a bit close by, but it’s down a deep cut so I’m willing to overlook that.
There's no pics of the caves themselves in the agent’s listing, but you’ll see them if you google Banwell Bone Cave and Stalactite Cave. The Bone Cave even comes with a pair of mastodon tusks, and there’s a charming building in the grounds called the Osteocon that houses a lot of them like a private mini museum.
I love the idea of owning a couple of caves, and I’d allow a limited number of interested parties to visit them on prior arrangement, and maybe do Open Doors Day, but they’d need to sign a very watertight waiver first. If a rock falls on your head, it’s not my responsibility. Bring your own hard hat.

Getamoveon2024 · 04/03/2026 18:47

Exactly where I live now. We’ve recently moved and we are knocking shit out of the house and have a mortgage that would make most on here weep 🤣🤣 I’d finish the work, pay off the mortgage and stay. I love it here 🥰

BeagleSkunk · 04/03/2026 18:33

ChequerToRed · 04/03/2026 15:14

I’d love to win asap, because my ideal house is 30 mins away from me and has been on the market about 18 months already. Nobody seems to want it, probably because the location is a bit odd and it needs some updating. Build in the 1830s as a summer bolt hole for the then Bishop of Bath & Wells. It comes with two extensive natural cave systems (one containing the bones of many ice age animals) and there’s follies in the grounds that are Grade 2 listed. There’s also a few acres of ancient woodland where my DH could have his long desired ‘shack in the woods’ as well as garage and workshop space. It’s perfect for us, not too big, and has the large formal drawing room I’ve long hankered for.

I’ve just phone googling for this, it’s lovely!

cupfinalchaos · 04/03/2026 18:03

On my own yacht with crew travelling the world with family and friends hopping on and off. Failing that a house on the water in Miami with a boat for day trips to Bahamas.

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