If you have $, what would you buy/do? <hmm>

[bjcheung77]

Well, for these people, they purchased an island, private jet, etc... I wonder what I would do if I had a billion or two to spare... Most my colleagues say I would continue to work as I am a "work-a-holic", LOL.  I wonder if I would or go into business or something, travels for sure...  Link: Billionaire buys Texas town and more outlandish celeb purchases (msn.com)

[rachel83az]

I'd take some of the more interesting/crazy classes I've seen available out there!

[jsd]

After all debts been paid and donations are made...

Let's start a degree completion college :p

[freeloader]

I’d buy a damn brewery and turn the planet into alcoholics. Good thing you didn’t ask what we’d do if we had a magic wand…

Also, the best JD, MBA, MAcc, and DBA/PhD in accounting that that would admit me.

[dfrecore]

I'd pay off the house and go on a lot of vacations, and I'd give away a lot more money - maybe start a foundation or something. That would really be fun, to be able to help people.

But, when I ask my kids "if we won the lottery, what would you want?" they invariably say "the only thing I want is a nicer car" or "nicer vacations" so I think I'm with them and not wanting my life to change a whole lot. I'm happy. I'd probably pretend the money wasn't even there most of the time.

[LevelUP]

I'm basically a minimalist so I have all the material things I want now. 

Money to me = Security, Options, and Freedom.

[bluebooger]

go to REI -- buy a bunch of backpacking equipment -- hike from New York (where I live) to California -- they hike up to Alaska - catch a boat or plane to Japan -- hike across japan -- boat or plane to Korea -- hike across Korea -- boat or plane to Philippines --- you know what comes next -- Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand -- then to India, Nepal, Mongolia, Finland, Norway, Ireland -- boat or plane when i have to skip a country or cross a sea -- otherwise backpacking (renting a small motorcycle every now and then)
I would NEVER stop traveling, never spend more than 3 days in one town

[rachel83az]

Never spending more than three days in one place is incredibly, incredibly exhausting. Not to mention, you don't get to see the best of anything that way. I would not like to live like that and I love to travel.

[bluebooger]

Never spending more than three days in one place is incredibly, incredibly exhausting. Not to mention, you don't get to see the best of anything that way. I would not like to live like that and I love to travel.

3 days in Hong Kong was enough for me         
it was more fun exploring outside the city -- my hostel was decent train ride away from the city - https://www.ascensionhousehk.com/ - so there was plenty of stuff side areas to visit -- like this awesome fun place https://www.google.com/search?q=Kam+Shan...ark+images
 
3 days in Beijing was enough for me  
I had a friend who hooked me up with a tour guide and took me to part of the Great Wall that was not the tourist area -- it was beautiful - all I wasted to do was hike and follow that wall as far as I could  

I agree traveling can be exhausting -- but only really if you're spending your time trying to stick to a schedule and packing/unpacking your suitcases   

In hong kong I stayed at a hostel    
in Beijing I slept on the floor of an ESL school  

in neither place did I have a plan or itinerary  

in both places it was "get on a city bus, hope its not an express going somewhere, go till I saw something interesting (5 or 10 minutes) get out and walk and see the city -- if I got hungry I'd find a small hole in the wall restaurant and point at some food (having no idea what it was) 

I'd spend the whole day out wondering around and then walk back to where I was staying (often getting lost along the way and having to stop people and try to get directions)

I've lived in NYC for over 20 years and I'm sure if I were visiting for the first time I could see everything I wanted in 3 days: 
Statue of Liberty   
Empire State Building 
United Nations
walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and the 59th Street Bridge and take the cable car 

that's really about it -- I have no interest in in seeing the different museums, a Broadway show, visiting a $200 restaurant or touring NBC Studios 

really, I could see everything in 3 days and still have plenty of time left over --- Times Square where they drop the ball on New Years Eve ? That's a 5 minutes stop on the way to the UN. 
Central Park ? I can see it from the top of the Empire State building. 
China Town ? Little Italy ? my thinking is that I'd be in China in 18 months and Italy in 2 years -- why waste time seeing it in NYC ? 
In fact, when I was in Hong Kong my main thought was that it was just a more dense NYC -- it was actually kind of boring -- sure there was Bird Street and Victoria Peak which was interesting, but for me it was mostly just a really packed city -- 3 days was actually more than enough 

I think I'd be perfectly happy throwing my backpack on at the end of 3 days, taking a bus or train to the nearest state park and then hiking and continuing my trip

[bjcheung77]

<smack blueblogger, OMG, all this time my brain thought it was Blueblogger but it's NOT!> Oh the horror!  I blame my dyslexia, it's been over 3 years and I keep reading it wrong since this thread! https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...#pid265045
 
Anyways, You just bit me with the travel bug!  I miss travels so much, haven't gone anywhere remotely after 2019... I am sure hoping this coming year, travels will be cheaper and getting past immigration between countries would be faster.  The horror stories of waiting in lines and hours just getting past immigration ruins it for me!