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The above question is one reason why I started checking out this forum. I will be retiring (early 40s) soon. It's nowhere near a quarter billion, but it's significant and enough to retire and still have a lot of good options.
We're planning on buying a WI home on a Lake Michigan beach next summer, or buying property there and building if we can't find what we're looking for on the market. A few acres of woods leading to sand = there's nowhere else I'd want to be 7 months of the year. At least a month or two during the dead of winter we'll be somewhere warm. And a cabin in either (or both) the WI northwoods and/or WI driftless are also being mulled.
WI is my home and I love it. Just wish I could change February to an additional October. Or Jan/Feb to Oct/Nov. But then I'd have nothing left to complain about
Evanston, Il --- close to Chicago, a couple of stays each summer at The Alpine in Door County as well as the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. And a log cabin for my daughter in Greer, Arizona.
I would roam o'er the land from town to town and do whatever I could to share my wealth with the needy and less fortunate people I encountered during my travels.
I chose L.A., but TBH, just about anywhere in California works for me (especially near SF, LA and SD). My dream life involves owning a post-modern home, and California (the west Coast in general) is where this architecture really fits in perfectly with the lifestyle and geography. Plus family is mostly in the LA area, and no matter how rich I am, I still want to be close by.
I would also own a second home in Baja. lol
Of course, this won't happen as my career of choice won't make me rich...probably barely keep me in the middle class the way things are going.
^ If we can't find one, we're building contemporary. They're very common in CA, but you can find them anywhere in the US. Wisconsin, home of Frank Lloyd Wright and birthplace of his ideas and home of his school, has a lot of original prairie/mid-century modern/usonion homes, as does Chicago and areas of AZ. You can pick up an OG for a few hundred thousand, or go even cheaper for a similar design from of his understudies at Taliesin.
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