Aibu to ask you where you would live with my £20 million budget?

[Itsgonnabeacoldone]

So I've got 20 million in (imaginary) pounds. Where would you live for this and in what? I'm only after one home as I find having a home in each continent discombobulating.

Right now I’d stay where I am..we’re close to the best schools/shops/parks. When the kids grow up I’d move to somewhere big and secluded. Maybe near the coast. Massive bedrooms with treehouse beds for the GC. I’d never move to another country. What’s the point if you don’t know anyone there?

I'd have a lovely house with a garden in Chiswick and at least one country pile, maybe in the New Forest. Plus of course a home on the French Riviera for weekends, dahling.

Mine;
www.countrylife.co.uk/property/ruined-mansion-boasts-landscaping-scheme-thought-laid-humphry-repton-167956

We don't need to solve the World's problems- we've got Hazzers and Meg on the case!

One house in London. Just a small place in the centre with a yard and a couple of bedrooms. With the other 10 million I would have a house in the Caribbean to enjoy the heat, and one in Aviemore or somewhere to enjoy the winter. I'd also have a camper van for a roving house. Main house maybe on the edge of the New Forrest.

£20,000,000 smalls like quite a small sum now.

Do I get unlimited spending money to live on too? If so I'd buy a massive house on Anna Maria Island in Florida. It's my happy place

I think I'd buy a big estate somewhere like Malta or a Greek island and have plenty of converted barns for visitors and a large paddock and luxury holdings for all the stray dogs and cats

I'd choose a small place on its own but with a small town nearby in a Spanish speaking country. Maybe Spain, maybe the Highlands of Mexico.

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-53636797.html

I'd buy that and use the change to pay the bills, gardener and cleaners.

Sorry I probably should have been clearer, I don't have any money it's all imaginary (although my sanction on UC ended last week, so thats pretty much the same as a lottery win )

I'm thinking a loft in Tribeca

Some of these properties look like they would gobble up 500k a year in upkeep and maintenance!

I think keeping a good sized pool heated costs a fortune too.

Itsgonnabeacoldone

Well, stop daydreaming for heaven's sake and think about how to solve the world's problems

I would have a central London mews cottage with a little courtyard garden and also a flat in Manhattan- preferably in Greenwich Village.

Maybe a little country cottage somewhere near the sea as well, then spend my life flitting between the three..

Can I have several please?

Country cottage in the Cotswolds, a holiday home in Italy and a retreat in Scotland

Chrys2017 wins the award for the most mumsnetty answer ever.

I would split it between a smart townhouse in Central London, a coastal house in North Wales and a villa in the Canary Isles.

I would build a faux-Roman villa somewhere the Romans actually lived (in the UK). Nice courtyard, underfloor heating, bathhouse, wine, olives. It'd be OK.

OR

I would buy a nice hunting lodge on a small hill somewhere, a bit like this one: www.celticcastles.com/castles/walton-castle/

No splitting OP said.

Mine - Large country house in Devon and Somerset, with gardens, hills nearby for riding and cycling and awesome views. Close enough to get to London, access the motorway network M5 north, Cornwall for surfing and close to airport for trips to France and Ireland. Somewhere around Blackdown Hills and Quantocks.

I'd buy my main home in Knaresborough (near Harrogate) and have a swanky waterfront apartment somewhere cool and easy to fly to regularly, maybe Barcelona.

Just looked at property near Knaresborough, this one would do! www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-61809691.html

Devon or Somerset

I would buy this which is not far from me and recently went for 15 million euros (although I think the sale fell through). That would leave me quite a bit for the renovations (probably not enough though!) and I would keep it in trust for the nation and lend it out for visits and parties!
www.theflorentine.net/news/2017/05/sammezzano-sold/

I would have a house in the middle of London as a getaway place but spend 80% of my time in the middle of nowhere like now but with more land for some sheep, pigs and goats and some woods.

I quite fancy this. near Richmond. DD spotted it a while ago, but decided against it because she really wants an indoor/outdoor pool. We could use the balance up to the £20m to sort that out for her.

After we've done that, we'll sort some real problems out.

Nice apartment in Barcelona, flat in Lyme Regis and a house on the London/Herts border. Whatever was left I would use to fund some foodbanks for a couple of years .

I’d bugger off back to Latin America, can’t settle since returning to UK

Quite fancy a big sprawling farm in the south of Argentina actually.