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Say you just won the state lottery. You are worth about $250 Million now. Don't have to work anymore. Could do and live where ever you want.
So....if you were mega-rich now and had the choice to live anywhere in the USA...where would you live?
Where would be your PARADISE?
I'd probably keep a condo or penthouse in Manhattan, but other than that............out west somewhere. I like the four seasons so I wouldn't necessarily try to run away from cold/snow. Instead I'd live somewhere where I could have fun being out in it, doing winter sports and what not. Maybe Jackson Hole, WY (although I've never been there, I've just seen pictures and heard about it). I've been to Wyoming but not Jackson Hole.
My ideal location (other than the Manhattan penthouse) would be 4 seasons, someplace far enough away from a city where I don't have to deal with other people and their sh*t too much, someplace with LOTS of natural beauty, but also someplace not so isolated that people are weird (so not the backwoods of West Virginia or Kentucky). A lot of celebrities in Hollywood keep homes in Jackson Hole from what I understand, so I think people there are used to dealing with outsiders.
My only concern in such a place would be wild animals, like cougars. But in some place like Wyoming or even Colorado, it should be easy enough to purchase and possess a rifle or something so that I could shoot a wild animal if it posed an immediate threat to me.
I'd either buy a house in Evanston, IL as close to Lake Michigan as possible or a high-rise condo in downtown Chicago for my home base (or possibly NYC or Seattle). May not necessarily buy a place there but would go to San Diego/La Jolla in the winter. I know this doesn't count but I'd also have a place in Nice, France when Chicago is too cold.
Ideally though, I'd keep a home in Chicago but would most likely move to Europe.
Either the Keys or Savannah during the coldest winter months (watching dolphins) and Chicago the rest of the year.
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