Independently Wealthy....

[NYrules]

Originally Posted by HOWELL_STREET

... Like Mannigault's comments, I would probably stay put. At least for awhile.

During the 1980s while employed in the Northbrook, IL Motorola Automotive division... the wife of one of our young electronics automotive engineers - - won a lottery worth about ten million dollars. But that was the earlier years of lotteries when the first prize wasn't up in the mega millions of dollars.

That next morning, our engineer friend just stood around our electronics department - - kind of like in his own daze. He answered our questions by saying that he would 'stay put' - - with Motorola employment & his current residential address - - and would also buy himself a new business passenger jet. Perhaps a Lear jet or a Gulf Stream - - if that particular jet existed in those years?

He wanted to learn how to be a pilot... and I suspect that he accomplished that. Perhaps even today, he flies out of Chicago's Pal - Waukee Airport?

But about a week after his wife won the lottery, one day, he just walked out of Motorola's employment and became independently wealthy. Of course, he also realized that everyone would solicit him for his money and donations - - and so he became incognito. That was the last time we ever saw him.

So living in the Trump Tower might be fine for some people - - but in my own situation, I would move into the country side and thus become incognito in that manner. You see, I would always be concerned about a possible future Chicago version of '911'.

Carter Glass,
Wheaton, iL

9-11 senarios are a very real possibility, but unfortunantly when its your time to go, its your time to go. Heck one could walk out of Trump Tower with the building standing in fine condition and be struck by a bus or cab which would be more likely than the tower being hit with a plane. This would be an example of a more likely senario for you to die in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHT5SOR0fMo

[stewartthrower]

Hmmm..Well the Spire penthouses are going for $50 million. So I'd grab one of them and then find a nice big spread in the hinterlands.

[irish setter girl]

Both my aunt & uncle and my cousin won the lottery (not the mega millions but enough to make you think twice about working) and they stayed in their home and kept their jobs. They paid off their homes, put money in the bank and lived like a "normal" person. Granted, they took amazing vacations and had some new jewelry added to the fingers but all in all they are still "normal" folks.

[j33]

I'm not much for suburbs, but if I found myself with untold wealth, I'd probably buy myself a fabulously outfitted apartment in the city with a building that had loads of amenities (but not a high profile building, just a luxurious one).

... and then I'd have a lovely cottage in southern France or Italy, and a small pied-à-terre in the middle of nyc.