What would you do if you "had the money"?

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I'd buy two abandoned towns, capable of holding 10k people in each, set up a local economy to keep the citizens comfy, and offer cheap housing to them depending on their voting. If they're democrats, they go into one town. Republicans go into another. Both towns are allowed to visit each other but you can't live in the other town. Both sides start off on equal footing, and then we wait ten years to see what happens.
 
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I'd buy a certain old house I used to live in and restore it to its former glory. It was this old Federation Queenslander, plaster molded ceilings, stained glass windows, polished wood floors, utterly neglected by the landlord. It was tragic. I'd give it to my nieces when they were old enough.

I'd commission my own house. It'd have its own museum/library with three story shelves and carved wood everywhere. The house would be riddled with secret passages and there'd be a lookout tower and a secret basement where I'd chill out with my secret weeb collection and keep a safe full of Lightning Ridge black opals. Instead of guard dogs I'd have guard donkeys. Elsewhere on my land there'd be an aviary full of rescued flying foxes and a massive greenhouse full of carnivorous plants.

I'd also build a series of unit blocks designed specifically for physically disabled people, and rent them out at disgustingly low prices.

I'd buy some old farmland that was too tired for anymore crops, plant it full of trees, and run cattle on it, and have fresh beef on demand for the rest of my life.

I'd hunt down ### and utterly destroy him in every possible way a person can be destroyed.

I'd start my own publishing house and publish offensive and anti politically correct literature.
 
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glass_houses said:
I'd commission my own house. It'd have its own museum/library with three story shelves and carved wood everywhere. The house would be riddled with secret passages and there'd be a lookout tower and a secret basement where I'd chill out with my secret weeb collection and keep a safe full of Lightning Ridge black opals. Instead of guard dogs I'd have guard donkeys. Elsewhere on my land there'd be an aviary full of rescued flying foxes and a massive greenhouse full of carnivorous plants.
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Oh man, a custom home is the dream. That would be so amazing.
I saw a house built around a big-ass rock once (like, the home was literally built into the rock, it was basically one of the walls of the house) and I thought that was incredible. There was another one I saw built around a tree. I'd want something like that.
 
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NoReturn said:
Oh man, a custom home is the dream. That would be so amazing.
I saw a house built around a big-ass rock once (like, the home was literally built into the rock, it was basically one of the walls of the house) and I thought that was incredible. There was another one I saw built around a tree. I'd want something like that.
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Was it this one?
 
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i would purchase several slabs of pure marble, chisel cryptic messages and symbols onto them, and scatter them across the world.
with knowledge of all the slabs, you'll be able to make out a map which leads straight to a treasure chest.
a chest that is full of yu-gi-oh cards, and not even the good ones either. we're talkin about real pack fodder only.
 
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No, but that's awesome! That has four boulders!
I can't seem to find it again, but I did find this place in Arizona that's was built in a similar way that shows kind of what it looked like on the inside:
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I'd build a replica of Petra tbh

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Retire, move to isolated, armed and well secured estate/compound on the coast of Maine with wife and a couple of friends, live on seafood the rest of my life and try to relax my remaining few years.
 
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If I had like $ billion, I'd hire scientists and students in math, physics, robotics, AI, and several other fields to accelerate the progress of some projects!
I'd pay them enough money so they could focus just on the work.
(Of course, I'd need to do other things!)
 
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