Where exactly would you live if you won the Lottery?

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

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 😌

Ha, what a small world! Yes, I wouldn’t want a mansion/huge flat in the middle of London or Manhattan or something (I absolutely loathe NYC - lived there for two years). This place ticks all my boxes! The only problem is they want £1.5 million, and I’m about £1,499,996 short.

What a fortunate man to have lived there!

Whenever I fantasise about winning (which is rare) I think it could be quite isolating, especially after reading testimonies.

I’ve always fantasised about making a list of close friends and acquaintances that I care about, and just sharing it, so I have sort of a community of recipients to enjoy it with.

After that I would keep my current home as we love it, and probably buy a holiday home by a beach, but near Barcelona.

I have 2 options.

1. I would love to live in a Yorkshire village. Detached house, double garage, enclosed garden, huge catio.

I would need to research if villagers are friendly to incomers though as with my Scottish accent, I would stick out like a sore thumb. My parents were incomers to where I live and despite me being born here I'm still eyed suspiciously by "Jock Tamson's bairns" due to my English ancesters 😆.

1. Really fancy living in Cyprus.

I read something about lottery winners buying houses ages ago. IIRC it said something about quite a lot of them regretted moving as they were no longer near their family, friends and community and felt quite idolated in their new surroundings. Not all of them obviously.

Portland House. I could actually live there for a while - it's let out by the National Trust as a holiday home
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/holidays/dorset/portland-house

So if I won the lottery tonight I would have to buy one of the cheaper apartments for £9m, not the £26m ones. Sigh.

This is fabulous, I even love the decor!

I think your idea of booking out months at a hotel in Cornwall is an absolute class act, most definitely not a second home wanker, you would be welcomed with open arms and I wish more people used hotels rather than second homes.

As a slight tweak to your suggestion, how about spreading the months and locations around a bit.

https://www.johansens.com/inspiration/luxury-hotels-in-cornwall-with-sea-views/

I would move temporarily to a lovely rental near DC school. Send a team of planners, designers, builders & decorators in to our current house that’s a dragged out money pit renovation project (8 years and counting) to finally finish the bloody thing. Then move back into it and decide what to do next.

I NEED the closure of finishing this house and a lottery win is the only way!

Fabulous list that I will enjoy ogling my way through! And yes, 100% my intention to move around rather than the same hotel every time, there's too much to see in Cornwall to not! Glad this is a good plan from your perspective, I look forward to my winnings imminently 😬

I'd stay in my current city as I love it here. We have several big football teams so I'd probably buy one of the smaller footballers houses - one with a pool.

I'd hire a driver and a housekeeper right away though - I'm disabled and need a lot of help and I hate relying on family. Being able to buy independence would be amazing.

Wrong post!

I'd stay in my rather ordinary house. I would buy somewhere nice abroad.

Genuinely I’d stay in the area where we are now but move to a much much much nicer house - there’s a row of mansions a mile away and I’d be banging on their doors offering cash 🤣 often daydream about which one I’d pick!!

Yes there is the small technical detail that both your and my plans do rely on either of us winning oodles of cash on the lottery.

But it's just a minor detail.

My dream would be a SPAN house, ideally in Beckenham in SE London
https://modernarchitecturelondon.com/buildings/span-blackheath.php
I don't need big, I already live and love living in SE London, and overall I LOVE Span houses with a passion.

I would also buy a Jean Prouvé house in a Paris' suburb so I can go and see my family
https://paris-promeneurs.com/les-maisons-jean-prouve-a-meudon/

And then a little flat with a balcony somewhere in Warsaw and I'm good, thank you very much.

Travel the world for a long time
Do long walks
Island hopping
Scuba diving
Long motorbike rides
Long camper van trips
Freedom
I would volunteer if I was offered the opportunity.
Or swap some work for free food or accommodation.

oooh a Huf Haus with sea views please

www.huf-haus.com/en-uk/

This is so cute!

I've always loved kit houses! I used to fantasise about buying a piece of land in Wales and putting one up, but I gather it's hard to get permission and at this point int time, I'd feel guilty buying up land for another home.

But since this is fantasy, I'll have one of those too 😂

On the outskirts (walking distance) of a small market town with a post office and doctor’s surgery and a bus to a bigger town or city and hospital, with lovely dog walks, not sticky clay soil, less than an hour drive from an empty beach. Absolutely not a tourist destination.

I don’t know where would fit that list!

In reality I'd stay in my village but in a slightly bigger house, and buy flats in London and New York so I could travel with ease. And maybe a little country retreat in the Highlands. And somewhere in Italy, near a lake. Nothing wildly fancy, all quite modest, just spreading the money (and giving me a chance to share with friends and family).

In my dreams, I'd buy one of the houses next to the Globe on the South Bank. Don't really mind which one, though I do like the idea of the roof terrace of no. 49.

I'd buy a bigger house - we don't have enough bedrooms at the mo. Round here to get my dream house we would need to spend about 1-1.3 mil!!!! Thats just never going to happen even though we earn fairly well. I love where we live and would like to stay put.

Would get my older kids really good therapist and life coaches.

A tutor for my youngest.

Would get myself a therapist, have regular massages.

Help my family and use the rest to have a good standard of living. I would still work - it keeps me sane, although I would probs start a charity to help kids with severe dyslexia get into the work force. i'd have a cleaner, a gardener and a personal trainer! A couple of good holidays a year. oooh and a car upgrade! A holiday home would be nice too!

I quite fancy this one-
8 bedroom end of terrace house for sale in Riverside, Shaldon, Devon, TQ14

I know exactly where. Its come up on the for sale sites in the area I'm currently wanting to move to. Only hitch, its on for 'offers over 2 million'. Its so annoying - it ticks ALL the boxes on my wants list....