What would you do if you had $1 billion?

[Anonymous]

Fractional membership in Netjets to allow us to fly DC around without dealing with the air travel challenges her SN presents. Sell current house and buy one on the beach. New cars for everyone including nanny.

[Anonymous]

I would fund DNA testing for outstanding sexual assault kits.

Figure out some sort of personal driver.

Travel.

Hire people to deal with my elderly mother.

Fund retirement for my brother. He would be thrilled with 60k a year.

Add a ramp to the back porch for our old dog.

[Anonymous]

I would build a dementia village for my mom and her sisters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/03/realestate/dementia-villages-senior-living.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JE8.Im6L.vgReiPbCK6mH&smid=url-share

[Anonymous]

Net jets account
Private chef
Weekly massage
Better vacations

[Anonymous]

Buy a couple of senate races, maybe.

And then travel. That's all I want to do as it is. Quit my job, go where the wind takes me, fly first class or charter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1 Billion is not that much these days. It's like asking what 1 million would get you in 2000.

$ 1,000,000.00 in January 2000

has the same buying power as $1,900,444.31

in
April

2025

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quit my job. Buy a nice house in Santa Barbara with an ocean view and horses (my main residence) and a home in the Mediterranean - Southern France most likely for regular family gatherings and summer holidays. I’d hire people to teach me things like gardening, cooking, etc and spend my additional free time traveling. Would rent private jets or fly first class/business. Some first fun trips I’d take would be a safari in South Africa, Japan, Australia/New Zealand, and India. Would splurge on regular spa treatments. I’d also donate the majority and set up a few scholarships for girls from low income families.

I think you will need a third house in Florida or Texas or some tax free state and live there for a chunk of the year. Santa Barbara is indeed beautiful but a billion will not last you very long there.

[Anonymous]

Sheesh, these answers

How about set up a trust to help people and animals in need. So much good could be done with it to improve the lives of others. Would still have more than plenty for oneself, family & friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd buy a fur coat but not a real fur coat because that would be cruel

I was thinking the same thing. And dijon ketchups!

[Anonymous]

I've daydreamed about setting up a women's commune, for women in dangerous/ patriarchal societies to live together, raise their kids, farm, make things to sell, etc. My experience is in Afghanistan, but there's need for something like everywhere in the world.

So yeah. I'd buy a big piece of land, build simple nice houses with indoor plumbing and electricity, build a series of well-stock workshops, build a small school or two (maybe one for kids and one for women), improve the soil for farming, and put out the word for women in dangerous situations to bring their kids and come live.

With lessons learned, I'd move on and build more in other places.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 Billion is not that much these days. It's like asking what 1 million would get you in 2000.

$ 1,000,000.00 in January 2000

has the same buying power as $1,900,444.31

in
April

2025

Remember, this group thinks a HHI of $500k is middle class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sheesh, these answers

How about set up a trust to help people and animals in need. So much good could be done with it to improve the lives of others. Would still have more than plenty for oneself, family & friends.

Nope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And I don't want to hear your weird ass investment ideas—not the place to pitch your theory on bonds or whatever.

Besides the variety of houses I'd buy, I'd also buy a really nice private rail car. Something like one of those super fancy RVs, but with a garage that I can have a car in, or maybe room for staff to travel with me.

Obviously, if you need to go from LA to NYC, it's absurd to take Amtrak—expensive, uncomfortable and slow... but if I was a billionaire the cost of a private rail car would not be cheap, but would be cheaper than a private jet, it would be as comfortable as I want and who cares if it's slow—I'm rich, people can wait for me.

One billion USD is really not much nowadays. It takes multiples to pull off what you silly geese are describing...but keep dreaming big!

Even 100,000 would dramatically change me life.

[Anonymous]

Reading all this I realize how people really have no idea how much a billion dollars is.

For perspective a million seconds 11.5 DAYS a billion seconds is 31.7 YEARS. I lived 50 more years that would give me $25million a year to live off of. A billion is an insane amount of money.

If I had that kind of money I’d have multiple ski houses, and people to do everything for me cook, clean, garden, schedule things, shop… id learn to do everything I’ve never had time to do. Then I’d travel all over the works. I’d also donate a ton to charity and do lots of volunteer work.

[Anonymous]

Have Freak Off parties.