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If you won the lottery would you stay in your current house?

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Bluemooninmyeyes1 · 19/09/2020 22:00

I was thinking about this earlier. We moved house last year and as much as I love the house itself I wish we’d done more research into the area as it’s quite noisy and we get a lot of youths hanging about etc. If we won the lottery we would definitely move again.

What would you do?

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Torvean32 · 20/09/2020 02:34

Im in a council flat around 650 miles from family.
I'd move. I would like a 2 bedroom cottage with a large garden so i could have a dog.

Bloodybridget · 20/09/2020 04:16

Not sure - our house has some real drawbacks, and the street can be dirty and a bit noisy, but we have such lovely neighbours, honestly I'd be gutted to move away from them!

alwayscrashinginthesamecar1 · 20/09/2020 04:28

I love my house and my swimming pool but I would move to a house on the beach, rather than five minutes away like I am now. I'd also buy a holiday home in Italy, where I would spent the Australian winter.

HerRoyalNotness · 20/09/2020 04:28

No, because I wouldn’t stay in my current country. I like the house well enough, although the living area is a bit small

FinallyHere · 20/09/2020 08:48

Absolutely, I'd stay here and hope DH would want to too. I love the area and am perfectly happy to live in the smallest house in the close.

There are also complicated plans in place to hide any winnings. It would be hotel suites all the way for me, they come with staff and maintenance staff all included.

dudsville · 20/09/2020 08:51

I'd stay but I'd get a new roof, new windows, a conservatory and have the inside professionally decorated and cleaned.

EnterFunnyNameHere · 20/09/2020 09:47

If we won enough to quit work I think we'd stay, and do all the work we want done to the house.

If not, probably move to a similar sized place closer to the office to reduce the commute but keep the space (currently out of reach financially!)

FraughtwithGin · 20/09/2020 10:28

I would, but first I would have it demolished and rebuilt to modern energy standards and my living requirements.

BearSoFair · 20/09/2020 10:38

No. We'd probably stay fairly local but would like to move off of the corner of a main road!

TheYeaSayer · 20/09/2020 10:42

I love my house and village, so I’d stay put but do a little work to my existing house.
I’d possibly buy a little holiday home, too.

Thecazelets · 20/09/2020 10:43

We'd stay here until the youngest had gone to university as we chose the area we're in for schools etc. Although the older I get the more inertia I feel about all the hassle of moving. If it was enough of a win I like PP's idea of buying without having to sell first, so maybe I'd give up my job and spend my time viewing central London townhouses and cottages in Norfolk for our post-dc lifestyle.

Heatherjayne1972 · 20/09/2020 11:07

Yeah when I win the lottery I’ll stay here

unlimiteddilutingjuice · 20/09/2020 11:13

I don't know...
I love my place but it's on a scheme and I wonder if things would get socially awkward if we were suddenly very wealthy.

I remember Dizzy Rascal saying he had to mve out the area he was brought up in and loved because people got weird around him when he got successful. He said something quite perceptive about people wanting (or even needing) rich people to act like rich people.

I'd do the right thing and donate the place back to the housing association (we're owner occupiers).

FinallyHere · 20/09/2020 11:55

Recognise the business about how you can be impacted other people's expectations of your lifestyle. This is exactly why I have some quite detailed plans in place to avoid anyone knowing that I had won anything, never mind millions.

It would be such a pity to find that friends and family just expected you to pick up the tab for coffees etc. never mind asking for help.

One of the plans involves a charitable trust, with 'tame' trustees, which I would use to make gifts to friends and family. There would either be no connection back to me, or more probably, I would be a member of the 'board' who together decided what to do. This seems a good way to be able to make gifts without personally letting yourself in for begging letters. And without making promises in an emotional moment which I subsequently regret.

I love the idea of paying off family mortgages but would just hate members of the family coming to me with ideas, effectively asking for money. Ugh.

MsEllany · 20/09/2020 12:10

No I like our house (now) but it’s a small terrace in inner city Liverpool.

If I had money I’d still live in inner city Liverpool but in the Georgian Quarter. There is one house on Rightmove I currently have my eye on....

HiGunny · 20/09/2020 12:10

DH and I often discuss what we'd do with our Euro millions winnings. So we've already decided to stay in our current house as we only built it a few years ago and it's beside family and friends, and our kids are settled in the village school. We'd finish it off properly though and change the few things that annoy us and also landscape the garden.

I would definitely be buying a house on the coast though and spend lots of time there as well.

We've no plans for any sports cars, yachts etc so don't think we'd actually be much good at spending lots of money!

1990shopefulftm · 20/09/2020 12:13

yes, if we could get the planning permission for a side extension so we could have a 4th bedroom and have a bigger bathroom as we love the area we live in.

TheBeesKnee · 20/09/2020 12:16

It depends on how much!

We bought the cheapest house we could. If I win anything less than the price of a country estate, I'd probably use it to buy an investment property to let out and stay here, even though I hate my noisy neighbours.

andpeggy1 · 20/09/2020 12:17

I would stay in mine as I Absolutly home
My house ( nothing grand or special, it's a 3 bed semi 1950s ex council) I would have an extension double extension on the side though to give me a bigger bathroom and
Slightly larger master bedroom and en suite. And downstairs have a bigger kitchen, dining room with bi folds. N then would have the garden landscaped. I would buy a holiday home somewhere abroad though maybe in Greece or
Italy.

unmarkedbythat · 20/09/2020 12:21

Hahaha hahaha

No I would not. I rent a 3 bed end of terrace I would buy a 5 bed detached with a garden and cellars if I won money! I would also buy some houses like the ones I have rented for years and let them to people with children and pets on long, long contracts with the right to decorate and not have to seek permission for every little fucking thing.

MsEllany · 20/09/2020 12:23

(I would also like to set up some sort of charitable body to support women and children).

prettybird · 20/09/2020 12:35

unmarkedbythat - we met a guy on holiday in Greece (he spent most of the year out there, doing odd jobs at the hotel we stayed in to keep himself occupied) who did that with his property portfolio. He took the view that long term contracts, without price increases, were worth the lack of hassle and void periods. He also said that people with families were better as they'd stay put for the schools

pointythings · 20/09/2020 12:35

I'd move. There's nothing wrong with my house, but it has too many memories of the bad times with late H attached to it.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 20/09/2020 12:41

No. I love my house but it's a 2 bed which is all I can afford. I don't want a massive house but I'd like a 3 bed so I can have a dressing room and a big enough bathroom for a 4 piece suite.

unlimiteddilutingjuice · 20/09/2020 12:46

FinallyHere I love that you have such detailed plans for an event with a one in 14 million chance of happening. You can never be too prepared

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