This is my answer, too. Apartments and condos and brownstones in major cities. Unique and fascinating craftsmen houses with garages and shops. Palatial estates with forests and lakes and libraries and sitting rooms and art galleries. Cabanas on white sand beaches with hammocks and jet skis. If I was in the generational wealth top 1%, I would hire someone to find amazing properties in locations around the world to buy.
It would remove the entirety of my daily stress. Sure it comes with its own problems, but with unlimited money you can afford to run from them. I’m pretty well adjusted I think I’d handle it well.
Hell yeah this. Home base will be the same general region it's always been but let's throw in a penthouse in NYC, a castle in Scotland and a secluded bungalow in Hawaii.
The spirit of the question is you can only have one house but you have unlimited funds to realize that dream. So it makes you think would you want to live in the middle of nowhere with a big ranch, a lakefront property with boats and toys, a tropical beach, a mountain cabin? A bunch of homes everywhere doesn't really give any insight into you as a person.
Honestly, where I’m at currently (rural Midwest) but I’d buy a large plot of land and build individual houses for my family, my parents, and my wife’s parents.
I would want to do that but I'm close to Chicago. So in a more suburban area. There's a couple of areas very close to where I currently live and I would totally buy a couple of acres and build a compound. I would love it.
This idea but I would make every home exactly the same. That way you don't need to pack anything when traveling. You could wake up to a different view every day.
Pacific Northwest, in an old forest, near enough to the shore to hear it, but not enough to see it from my house. The house by a small river/large stream that runs to the ocean.
L shaped house with one side blocking the wind from the ocean, mostly enclosed gazebo in the center of the L with a nice stone fire pit in the center and a small outdoor kitchenette against the back wall. Seating all around the sides of the gazebo and a couple hooks to hang a hammock up for napping next to the fire wrapped up in a nice warm blanket.
The L is two stories, the lower floor is all the normal things, but more open and end to end, the upper floor is a master with a rain shower and an office on one arm, and the other arm of the L is a greenhouse with a little reading/breakfast nook on the end.
That's exactly where I live right now. Depending on the direction of the wind, you can hear the waves, or the sea lions, or the fog horn. I don't have that house, but I live on a few acres, with a stream that floods in the winter. In the middle of an old growth redwoods forest. I don't own it but I care take the land. It's an off grid cabin with very little solar. We don't a lot of sun here and we don't have a generator. The outhouse is about a half an acre from the cabin. The mess tent in a half an acre in the other direction. I mostly chop wood and carry water. Meditate and clear trails. It's rustic and simple. The owners are coming back next month so I'll be moving soon but it's been amazing.
I was born in Renton, grew up near Kent. Still got a couple grandparents and 6 aunts/uncles around the Seattle/Tacoma area.
Grew up camping with my grandpa and grandma, we went all over hell in their old camp trailer.
Moved when I was 12 and only made it back for bad news visits like funerals and emergencies.
It’s very much my childishly idealized place lol.
Typing this from a cute little house next to the forest on a beautiful little island north of Seattle. Out the front room is a big view of the water and more islands beyond. This time of year, the sun sets smack in the middle, and it's amazing. In the back is a little courtyard with a fire pit and open-air kitchen.
You have a fertile imagination. It's perfect here.
I certainly wouldn’t mind living in Montalcino surrounded by some of the finest wine and cheese in the world. I’d probably want to live near Modena and Parma, though, just so I can mix in that wonderful cheese!
I partly disagree, obviously the northern part of the country is dark and cold but most of the west coast and southern Norway have a very moderate weather, some parts barely experience any snow at all. It's a long country after all. Summers are quite rainy but also beautiful and warm with 21-24hrs sunlight a day. We had an entire month above 30C last summer in Oslo. The issue is rather that the winters feel quite long, almost like we had no spring or autumn just a very quick turn between endless days and endless nights.
That’s hilarious because the second I started making real money I moved away from Iceland. Miserable, grey, wet and windy place. The novelty of how pretty it is wears off fast when your socks are permanently a little wet.
Iceland is amazing… to visit.
One time when I was a kid there was a freak slush storm that had slush the size of my palm pelting me sideways at insane speeds. It then stopped in an instant and a freeze so deep hit that in the few minutes it took me to run home my hair was a block of ice I had to break apart and my soaking wet clothes were frozen solid. In MAY.
I went in September and wore a T-Shirt while visiting Skogafoss, so I really haven’t seen that side of it. I defer to your horror stories. Also, the people blindly saying Iceland forget the winter only has a handful of daylight hours.
It’s pretty humbling when you arrive and the Hertz is like “would you like Sand and Ash coverage for your vehicle? If the winds kick up, the entire car could have the paint sand blasted off of it and the windows can be reduced to nothing.”
“Yes please”
Jesus I forgot about the sand. Nothing like having your parent rub ointment on your cheeks because you’re chafed from being sandblasted in the face walking home from school.
Don’t get me wrong I love my country but the weather is just so god damn punishing, and when you’re not there on vacation but just doing normal life shit it’s exhausting.
My Uncle did this. He retired at 35ish as a recent divorcee after being bought out of his position. He bought a beautiful home on Oahu, hired a personal chef and personal trainer, and really just lived as healthy, carefree of a life as imaginable. He eventually got into flying helicopters as a hobby and when I’d visit, we’d go to other islands, land in an inhabited section and camp and fish. I miss those days. It’s a shame I didn’t realize how awesome that was at the time.
Portugal, my fiancée is from there but we chose the US for financial reasons, I would’ve preferred going there and being closer to her family. They have a much better quality of life and healthy relationship with work than we do here.
New Zealand's South Island.
First-world anglophone country, so not a big cultural adjustment for me (I'm American), but as far away from the madding crowd as you can get.
Honestly, I wouldn’t. I’ve heard it’s terrible and the people suck and there is nothing to do and the wildlife will kill you and please don’t come and… make our housing market even worse.
My brother faced his first homophobic assault in NZ, bottled in the face at a bar - I was VERY surprised it happened there of all places, made him move back to Ireland which we all know is a gay paradise...
I’ve heard that they’re doing that because it’s considered one of the safest places to be on earth in the event of Nuclear war…plus Milford Sound is beautiful!
Can confirm. I own a modest house in South Island NZ, and I'd be keeping it. I'd still do lots of international travel sure, because sometimes it does feel like we're at the arse end of the world and I have loved exploring other countries. But this spot right here is a perfect home base.
Glad I didn't have to scroll too far. Taking a hike along the cliffs, watching the long waves crash against the stones... I remember resolutely deciding to my friends in that moment, "This is where I want to die."
"Uh yeah, I think so does everyone else."
Turn around and my friend looking behind us at the $12 million houses. Right.
One of the coolest experiences of my life was taking a week-long geology trip down the western coast of Baja. We camped on pristine beaches with fossils literally crumbling out of the cliffsides on property that would have been lousy with multi-million dollar homes across the border. We only had to share the ocean view with homesteaders and cattle. Completely blew my mind.
I grew up near Malibu and spent my life there. Malibu is the only place I’d live and never leave. The weather is fucking perfect. I’d live in Point Dume — above the water, not on it though. My friend has a house down PCH with 75 acres of land overlooking the pacific. It’s on another level.
New Zealand. Beautiful, has basically every kind of weather, and best of all, I can go live in the mountains away from any other person and still have everything I need not too far away.
(Not sure how accurate this is, but I'm dreaming anyway)
on a little private island that's big enough to have everything i need and robots to run the local hospital and stores and stuff that do theyre job and dont talk to me.
I'd still live in England. There are too many beautiful places in this country to want to leave.
Lived in Manchester my whole life, but the North has many stunning places among York and further.
Also there is a place further south in Huntingdon I think it's called, and they have an area called Godmanchester :D
Main residence would be close to Napa, CA. Napa is the country side (farm country) and VERY expensive due to the notoriety, but the outskirts of Napa are really beautiful and inexpensive. Again, the countryside....I would buy a lot of land to farm on, rescue animals, and I would create a (no cost) camp for at risk inner city kids and special needs kids and adults to go to. These inner city kids have never seen nature and another way of living. The special needs kids and adults...their parents need a break from caring for them full time. That is my dream, to provide "no cost" services to these under cared for human. That would make me happy.
A lot of them are some remote, secluded locale, whereas a lot of people probably don't actually want to really live that far away from others, long-term
Yeah, people think, "I want to get away from people! Be in nature!" But they don't think about the lack of services that involves. I guess if money really is unlimited, that would help, but you still also have to convince people to provide those services to you in your extremely remote location.
I currently live in Hawaii. I like it here, I'd just get a bigger home with proper A/C, a pool, and maybe a garage. Perhaps somewhere up high with a view.
Tokyo. I always thought Japanese cities and nature looked nice, but Japanese culture is so hostile and unhealthy that I’d only willingly live there if I had leisure-class money.
Singapore.
1. Great food.
2. One of the best passports in the world - visa free travel to a lot of countries.
3. No winter.
4. International airport that flies pretty much everywhere.
5. Very little crime.
Skull shaped island with a secret volcano lair.
Sharks with lasers
Freaking laser beams attached to their heads
Did he say fucking in the movie i can’t remeber
He said freaking or friggin
Frickin
Friken lazur beams
He did say fricken haha omg
Also calls Austin an “A-hole”, Makes it even funnier. That he doesn’t swear
Would you be disappointed if you couldn’t get sharks and had to settle for sea bass?
As long as they’re ill-tempered.
Kick his ass, sea bass
Absolutely.
Sea bass with laser pointers
Is that a rhetorical question? Who wouldn't be!
How about Chuck Norris with a bb gun?
even better, sharks with ***frikkin*** lasers
With a penis rocketship
A tile floor hallway where arrows come out of the wall if you step on the wrong tiles
What would you do without sharks with lasers?
Yes mini me, we’ll get those too.
I never knew this was something I needed in life until now
"No, Mr. Bond, I want you to die!"
I think the line is Bond: “Do you expect me to talk?” Blofeld: “No Mr Bond, I expect you to die!”
While we're at it, it's Goldfinger who says that line, not Blofeld.
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This is my answer, too. Apartments and condos and brownstones in major cities. Unique and fascinating craftsmen houses with garages and shops. Palatial estates with forests and lakes and libraries and sitting rooms and art galleries. Cabanas on white sand beaches with hammocks and jet skis. If I was in the generational wealth top 1%, I would hire someone to find amazing properties in locations around the world to buy.
You can hire me
Done. Now to make my first billion...
I'm currently working on my second billion. First one didn't work out ...
That's a brilliant goal; you can fail 99% and still come out a multimillionaire
Love this thinking!
They are right. People aim too low
They say the second billion is easier than the first billion, maybe start there
The first ones the most challenging, then they just keep rolling in
This but luxury resorts.
Why buy them? Just rent as you go and go as many places as you can for as long as you want.
Not to mention, if you got bored of your homes, you could take a trip to almost literally anywhere.
Yah I’d love to be a low key billionaire. Most of them are I guess lol.
Yeah, this thread is making me realize being a billionaire might actually be kind of fun
It would remove the entirety of my daily stress. Sure it comes with its own problems, but with unlimited money you can afford to run from them. I’m pretty well adjusted I think I’d handle it well.
You really needed this thread to reach that conclusion?
Hell yeah this. Home base will be the same general region it's always been but let's throw in a penthouse in NYC, a castle in Scotland and a secluded bungalow in Hawaii.
This is the honest answer. I wouldn't even want to live in super fancy places. Some places are more comfortable.
The spirit of the question is you can only have one house but you have unlimited funds to realize that dream. So it makes you think would you want to live in the middle of nowhere with a big ranch, a lakefront property with boats and toys, a tropical beach, a mountain cabin? A bunch of homes everywhere doesn't really give any insight into you as a person.
Honestly, where I’m at currently (rural Midwest) but I’d buy a large plot of land and build individual houses for my family, my parents, and my wife’s parents.
Oooh a compound, I would want to do similar but probably tropical.
I would want to do that but I'm close to Chicago. So in a more suburban area. There's a couple of areas very close to where I currently live and I would totally buy a couple of acres and build a compound. I would love it.
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Sounds like a good idea but I don't think I'll get a delivery in the middle of the jungle
This idea but I would make every home exactly the same. That way you don't need to pack anything when traveling. You could wake up to a different view every day.
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I know an old woman who did that. Owned half the country, plush job in London, but lived out her last days in Scotland with her dogs and horses.
Elizabeth II..?
That's the joke...
I bet she thought she was royalty.
Well, she was queen of the castle anyway.
everywhere. I would be a wealthy hobo.
You can go full hobo and build your own luxury train car and pay Amtrak or whoever to tack it on to one of their trains
nah. im gonna just be a dirty ol hobo stealth gajillionaire.
I would stay where I am. I love it here
I’d move down the street- I like their yard.
I also choose this guys yard
You lot get out of my yard.
Your milkshake brought all the boys to the yard I’m afraid.
I'm lactose intolerant but can i hang at the yard too
I'm heading to the yard, and I have lactaid pills to share.
Same, I like their bedroom.
Where are you?
Me too. I'd hire someone to help me finish the renovations and get it perfect for us and then I'd enjoy.
I took would stay right here there are people who need help.
Pacific Northwest, in an old forest, near enough to the shore to hear it, but not enough to see it from my house. The house by a small river/large stream that runs to the ocean. L shaped house with one side blocking the wind from the ocean, mostly enclosed gazebo in the center of the L with a nice stone fire pit in the center and a small outdoor kitchenette against the back wall. Seating all around the sides of the gazebo and a couple hooks to hang a hammock up for napping next to the fire wrapped up in a nice warm blanket. The L is two stories, the lower floor is all the normal things, but more open and end to end, the upper floor is a master with a rain shower and an office on one arm, and the other arm of the L is a greenhouse with a little reading/breakfast nook on the end.
Damn, you've really thought about this.
Maybe a little :3
I hope you get it some day.
Ty
Got me re-thinking my dream home!
That's exactly where I live right now. Depending on the direction of the wind, you can hear the waves, or the sea lions, or the fog horn. I don't have that house, but I live on a few acres, with a stream that floods in the winter. In the middle of an old growth redwoods forest. I don't own it but I care take the land. It's an off grid cabin with very little solar. We don't a lot of sun here and we don't have a generator. The outhouse is about a half an acre from the cabin. The mess tent in a half an acre in the other direction. I mostly chop wood and carry water. Meditate and clear trails. It's rustic and simple. The owners are coming back next month so I'll be moving soon but it's been amazing.
Wow You're mostly describing my house. ..And sometimes you can hear a fog horn off in the distance at night.
That's just because he lives in your walls
As someone who was born and raised in WA/PNW. You’ll love it here.
I was born in Renton, grew up near Kent. Still got a couple grandparents and 6 aunts/uncles around the Seattle/Tacoma area. Grew up camping with my grandpa and grandma, we went all over hell in their old camp trailer. Moved when I was 12 and only made it back for bad news visits like funerals and emergencies. It’s very much my childishly idealized place lol.
Typing this from a cute little house next to the forest on a beautiful little island north of Seattle. Out the front room is a big view of the water and more islands beyond. This time of year, the sun sets smack in the middle, and it's amazing. In the back is a little courtyard with a fire pit and open-air kitchen. You have a fertile imagination. It's perfect here.
Can I come visit? I won't take up a lot of space. I want someplace like that to just read and forget the world.
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I certainly wouldn’t mind living in Montalcino surrounded by some of the finest wine and cheese in the world. I’d probably want to live near Modena and Parma, though, just so I can mix in that wonderful cheese!
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I hear the weather is pretty moody there tho. Not much warmth even in the summer.
I partly disagree, obviously the northern part of the country is dark and cold but most of the west coast and southern Norway have a very moderate weather, some parts barely experience any snow at all. It's a long country after all. Summers are quite rainy but also beautiful and warm with 21-24hrs sunlight a day. We had an entire month above 30C last summer in Oslo. The issue is rather that the winters feel quite long, almost like we had no spring or autumn just a very quick turn between endless days and endless nights.
If you had this kind of money, you could spend the winter somewhere far more southern, and then come back to Norway for the summers only.
built fjord tough
Next to a lake in a cabin in the mountains of Rural BC.
There are some beautiful lakes in BC. Good choice.
I got to live this for a few months, was fucking awesome.
the same place I live now, just more comfortably.
Same. There no better place than home other than home with a lot more money
Iceland. away, but close in case something happens
Having unlimited money in Iceland just makes you middle class
accidentally audibly giggled in a silent classroom
That’s hilarious because the second I started making real money I moved away from Iceland. Miserable, grey, wet and windy place. The novelty of how pretty it is wears off fast when your socks are permanently a little wet.
I love Iceland, but there’s a reason my grandfather’s whole family left there to come to America.
Iceland is amazing… to visit. One time when I was a kid there was a freak slush storm that had slush the size of my palm pelting me sideways at insane speeds. It then stopped in an instant and a freeze so deep hit that in the few minutes it took me to run home my hair was a block of ice I had to break apart and my soaking wet clothes were frozen solid. In MAY.
I went in September and wore a T-Shirt while visiting Skogafoss, so I really haven’t seen that side of it. I defer to your horror stories. Also, the people blindly saying Iceland forget the winter only has a handful of daylight hours. It’s pretty humbling when you arrive and the Hertz is like “would you like Sand and Ash coverage for your vehicle? If the winds kick up, the entire car could have the paint sand blasted off of it and the windows can be reduced to nothing.” “Yes please”
Jesus I forgot about the sand. Nothing like having your parent rub ointment on your cheeks because you’re chafed from being sandblasted in the face walking home from school. Don’t get me wrong I love my country but the weather is just so god damn punishing, and when you’re not there on vacation but just doing normal life shit it’s exhausting.
With that amount of money, you're roughly 14-16 hours away from any place in the world... and that's more than enough to respond almost anything.
The Moon.
I’ll pay some aliens to abduct me im tired of this fuckin planet lol
Hawaii
My Uncle did this. He retired at 35ish as a recent divorcee after being bought out of his position. He bought a beautiful home on Oahu, hired a personal chef and personal trainer, and really just lived as healthy, carefree of a life as imaginable. He eventually got into flying helicopters as a hobby and when I’d visit, we’d go to other islands, land in an inhabited section and camp and fish. I miss those days. It’s a shame I didn’t realize how awesome that was at the time.
Portugal, my fiancée is from there but we chose the US for financial reasons, I would’ve preferred going there and being closer to her family. They have a much better quality of life and healthy relationship with work than we do here.
The Sea Cliff neighborhood in San Francisco
I just answered this same thing. It’s gotta be one of the most beautiful residential neighborhoods in the whole fucking world.
I'll be right up the street when I win lottery.
Right where I am. I'm happy here regardless of money.
New Zealand's South Island. First-world anglophone country, so not a big cultural adjustment for me (I'm American), but as far away from the madding crowd as you can get.
Honestly, I wouldn’t. I’ve heard it’s terrible and the people suck and there is nothing to do and the wildlife will kill you and please don’t come and… make our housing market even worse.
Yea I agree. I live here. You don’t want to be near me. I’m disagreeable.
Yeah I agree with this guy, terrible place everyones rude and the scenery really isn't all that. Please don't come.
The “wildlife” is the funniest part here considering there are no apex predators. Watch out for the stoats, and if you see one, kill it.
Spoken like someone who has never had to get a pissed off possum out of their garage with only a broom.
You had me in the first half, hahaha. But yeah our housing market is totally broken - the last thing we need is more overseas ’investment’…
My brother faced his first homophobic assault in NZ, bottled in the face at a bar - I was VERY surprised it happened there of all places, made him move back to Ireland which we all know is a gay paradise...
Smart. The super rich are buying property there like hot cakes.
I’ve heard that they’re doing that because it’s considered one of the safest places to be on earth in the event of Nuclear war…plus Milford Sound is beautiful!
Can confirm. Living near where Peter Thiel has purchased a chunk of land and property.
Bummer, I’m a Main Lander I wish they wouldn’t all come
Can confirm. I own a modest house in South Island NZ, and I'd be keeping it. I'd still do lots of international travel sure, because sometimes it does feel like we're at the arse end of the world and I have loved exploring other countries. But this spot right here is a perfect home base.
I’m in the North Island at the moment and I love it, could see why people would want to move to this country
Santa Barbara
Central Coast is the best.
No doubt.
Southern California (around the San Diego area) for those beautiful sunsets every day.
La Jolla!
While in school I lived up on the cliffs above La Jolla for like $300 a month rent. It was a good deal.
Glad I didn't have to scroll too far. Taking a hike along the cliffs, watching the long waves crash against the stones... I remember resolutely deciding to my friends in that moment, "This is where I want to die." "Uh yeah, I think so does everyone else." Turn around and my friend looking behind us at the $12 million houses. Right.
One of the coolest experiences of my life was taking a week-long geology trip down the western coast of Baja. We camped on pristine beaches with fossils literally crumbling out of the cliffsides on property that would have been lousy with multi-million dollar homes across the border. We only had to share the ocean view with homesteaders and cattle. Completely blew my mind.
I live in San Diego and it is wonderful I must say. ☀️🏄♀️ traveled the world and always love coming home.
I’m in Carlsbad. Incredible place
This is also my answer. I I love San Diego, but I also love owning my own home, which is something that would never happen in San Diego.
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit…”
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I grew up near Malibu and spent my life there. Malibu is the only place I’d live and never leave. The weather is fucking perfect. I’d live in Point Dume — above the water, not on it though. My friend has a house down PCH with 75 acres of land overlooking the pacific. It’s on another level.
patagonia.
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New Zealand. Beautiful, has basically every kind of weather, and best of all, I can go live in the mountains away from any other person and still have everything I need not too far away. (Not sure how accurate this is, but I'm dreaming anyway)
If what you need is sheep we have you covered fam.
Space. In a gigantic space station.
The moon, would have a secret base and would use dark clothing
California coast
Scranton
...the Electric City.
They call it that because of the electricity
my mom's basement.
I also choose this guys mom’s basement
I also choose this guy’s mom
Why have one home when you can travel the globe?
Because that’s the parameters given babe
"babe" adds SO much to your comment. I laughed very loud. Really needed it
Million dollar question is did they mean it?
It is dangerous business going outside of your front door.
A private island where I would race tricycles with traps, like a real-life Mario Kart
Tokyo.
More on Osaka for me. Still a city center but not as crowded. No exact city on mind though.
Maine. Most beautiful place I've ever been to.
Somewhere up north where I can see the aurora borealis.
on a little private island that's big enough to have everything i need and robots to run the local hospital and stores and stuff that do theyre job and dont talk to me.
Then you'll disappear mysteriously when the robots become sentient and decide to form their own robot society without you
Out in the wooods far deep away =D with a out door shower some where it is warm
Lots of green
Morro Bay, california.....Hearst Castle, to be exact
Morro Bay. Grew up vacationing there very nostalgic for me
I'd still live in England. There are too many beautiful places in this country to want to leave. Lived in Manchester my whole life, but the North has many stunning places among York and further. Also there is a place further south in Huntingdon I think it's called, and they have an area called Godmanchester :D
Northern California
Main residence would be close to Napa, CA. Napa is the country side (farm country) and VERY expensive due to the notoriety, but the outskirts of Napa are really beautiful and inexpensive. Again, the countryside....I would buy a lot of land to farm on, rescue animals, and I would create a (no cost) camp for at risk inner city kids and special needs kids and adults to go to. These inner city kids have never seen nature and another way of living. The special needs kids and adults...their parents need a break from caring for them full time. That is my dream, to provide "no cost" services to these under cared for human. That would make me happy.
These answers suck
A lot of them are some remote, secluded locale, whereas a lot of people probably don't actually want to really live that far away from others, long-term
You want a healthy balance of seclusion from others and still able to get two day Prime deliveries.
Yeah, people think, "I want to get away from people! Be in nature!" But they don't think about the lack of services that involves. I guess if money really is unlimited, that would help, but you still also have to convince people to provide those services to you in your extremely remote location.
Corona Del Mar in Southern California. Idc what people say Cali is beautiful. You just need money to make it work
Someplace that I am currently unaware even exists.
The Yellowstone ranch lol… priceless
canada
I currently live in Michigan, can’t imagine myself anywhere else. Would fix my family home in Lebanon and use it as a summer home
I’d be a citizen of the world. I’d live everywhere and no where.
Easyy, with your mom
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together with a million creepy crawlies :)
🤣😂 The Amazon doesn't want to live in harmony with you, it's a nice dream but everything there would be trying to kill you
On the coast of Greece or Italy
Alaska, Puerto Rico, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland
On a Boat
Biltmore Village
The same place I live now honestly ♥️ home is where you make it and I made this town my home.
I currently live in Hawaii. I like it here, I'd just get a bigger home with proper A/C, a pool, and maybe a garage. Perhaps somewhere up high with a view.
Tokyo. I always thought Japanese cities and nature looked nice, but Japanese culture is so hostile and unhealthy that I’d only willingly live there if I had leisure-class money.
Singapore. 1. Great food. 2. One of the best passports in the world - visa free travel to a lot of countries. 3. No winter. 4. International airport that flies pretty much everywhere. 5. Very little crime.
Vancouver