Yeah, all this talk of the "high life" really agitates me. I'd be quite happy with my current life, minus worries about the mortgage, taxes, utilities, and oh yeah, actually having to work.
Any super-rich philanthropists with a curious streak reading this? Feel free to give £500k to a bunch of us and see how we fare :P
Oh, and I'd rent a place in Budapest every winter (too hot in the summer), while using the rest of the year to take friends along with me to interesting places worldwide.
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...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.
If I were suddenly awarded one million dollars, I would sell pretty much all of my belongings, buy myself one of these, get appropriate mountain and canyon flying instruction, then spend years exploring the state of Alaska by way of air. If the money ran out, I'd get my Commercial certificate and get paid to haul people and post from Anchorage to the bush.
So far, this seems to be at the same time the best idea and the most practical. A dream to live, and a means to support himself if/when the money runs out. :^:
It's also pretty awesome as well as practical, and makes me feel dull for settling for "sitting on my scrawny ass and treating life like one big weekend". I mean, man. It's a plane! And I bet it handles far better than that POS that haunts the GTA series.
I'd pay off the mortgage on my house and give it a few upgrades and improvements. Then I'd either sell it for big profit or use it as a rental property.
Then I'd pay off my girlfriend's student loans and marry her.
The rest of the money would be spent on finishing our educations, buying a larger house, a decent savings/emergency fund, and maybe a sailboat.
Well, I do know a million dollars would help fund and provide armament my ideas of a penny gun when we are wrought upon by the zombie hordes. So much ammo...
So far, this seems to be at the same time the best idea and the most practical. A dream to live, and a means to support himself if/when the money runs out. :^:
It's also pretty awesome as well as practical, and makes me feel dull for settling for "sitting on my scrawny ass and treating life like one big weekend". I mean, man. It's a plane! And I bet it handles far better than that POS that haunts the GTA series.
Thanks dudes, this really makes me feel good as it's a dream I intend to live out regardless if someone drops a million in my checking account or otherwise. The whole "using an airplane to adventure" thing started when I was a kid, was solidified when I got my private pilot certificate, and was focused on Alaska after stumbling across that guy's blog and getting into e-mail correspondence with him. You should really check out his site, there's some amazing photography there.
For the time being, I'm stuck as a broke college kid in New York, so not only can't I afford to rent any aircraft very often, there's not much in the way of adventure around. Although navigating New York City via the Hudson River at 1,100 feet was a unique experience to say the least.
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I'd buy a modestly priced condo in NYC!
Not so exciting huh but a millio bucks doesn't go nearly as far as it used to
Any super-rich philanthropists with a curious streak reading this? Feel free to give £500k to a bunch of us and see how we fare :P
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
So far, this seems to be at the same time the best idea and the most practical. A dream to live, and a means to support himself if/when the money runs out. :^:
Then I'd pay off my girlfriend's student loans and marry her.
The rest of the money would be spent on finishing our educations, buying a larger house, a decent savings/emergency fund, and maybe a sailboat.
Thanks dudes, this really makes me feel good as it's a dream I intend to live out regardless if someone drops a million in my checking account or otherwise. The whole "using an airplane to adventure" thing started when I was a kid, was solidified when I got my private pilot certificate, and was focused on Alaska after stumbling across that guy's blog and getting into e-mail correspondence with him. You should really check out his site, there's some amazing photography there.
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For the time being, I'm stuck as a broke college kid in New York, so not only can't I afford to rent any aircraft very often, there's not much in the way of adventure around. Although navigating New York City via the Hudson River at 1,100 feet was a unique experience to say the least.
WOW.
Also, I would buy a lot of weed.
A lot.
Wow is right.