A million to stay or go.

[afro-elf]

If you were offered a million USD tax free to either stay in your state ( or equivalent of) forever or the same deal but stay out of your country forever which would you choose?

I'd take the latter.

[Artanis]

My first thought was definately to stay in my country. I'm very in love with Norway! But then I had second thoughts. I like travelling, and there's a lot of places in the world I would like to visit but haven't come around to do yet. Still, never be able to come back....this is difficult! But probably, I would choose to stay...I think .... for the moment.... :)

[Sween]

ill be stright off. Off to spain where its warm that or oz or new zeland cos new zeland is well cheep.

[osszie]

The cash would be very tempting......

but I could never leave Englands fair shores forever..........besides, a million dollars isn't that much money (relatively speaking)............make it ten mil and I might just slip a few clothes into my suitcase;)

[Artanis]

Oh, if status quo is an option, that is waving goodbye to money and be free to go wherever I want, I most certainly would have chosen that. :cool:

Freedom is vital. :)

[Spock]

Originally posted by Artanis
My first thought was definately to stay in my country. I'm very in love with Norway! :)

U'FDAH!

[Artanis]

Meaning? :confused:

[BeardofPants]

1 mill US is about 2.2 mill NZ. I'd go. I'm trying to get out anyway. :D

[Lizra]

I'd stay. I was planning on doing it anyway! Only place I might like to visit is Canada. I don't care for traveling AT ALL! :)

[Menelvagor]

I'd go, wasn't particularly planning on staying anyway. :rolleyes:

[Hasty Ent]

I'd be gone so fast you'd smell the rubber burn...
I've had an ongoing fantasy about living a life where all my possessions fit in one carry on bag: I would stay in furnished apts/hotels and not have to worry about paying property taxes, mortgage, prop insurance, vehicle sticker for the car, auto ins, water-gas-elec bill, all the petty complications that keep you from living a life! I would travel the world -- and since I have no interest in 4 star ANYTHING, I could live on very little... Would I miss the US? No. Would I miss the Midwest? Definitely NOT!

[LuthienTinuviel]

i would be done with the US forever.
in most ways i already am.

[katya]

i would go for sure i think. i was planning on leaving america anyway. maybe i would smuggle myself in and visit....hm...no. that would really rock though. i wouldnt have to have a job. hehehe.

[afro-elf]

Originally posted by Hasty Ent
I'd be gone so fast you'd smell the rubber burn...
I've had an ongoing fantasy about living a life where all my possessions fit in one carry on bag: I would stay in furnished apts/hotels and not have to worry about paying property taxes, mortgage, prop insurance, vehicle sticker for the car, auto ins, water-gas-elec bill, all the petty complications that keep you from living a life! I would travel the world -- and since I have no interest in 4 star ANYTHING, I could live on very little... Would I miss the US? No. Would I miss the Midwest? Definitely NOT!

My current job is like that. Get some kind of ESL certification and travel the world. I've been doing it for a few years.

[afro-elf]

Originally posted by BeardofPants
1 mill US is about 2.2 mill NZ. I'd go. I'm trying to get out anyway. :D

Your Nubian snaga of earthly pleasures awaits thee. :D ;)

[Hasty Ent]

Originally posted by afro-elf


My current job is like that. Get some kind of ESL certification and travel the world. I've been doing it for a few years.

Sounds great, if it weren't for the fact that I am a caregiver for an aging parent (in addition to working one full time job, one part time job, and I am an active volunteer for a local arts organization). Not that I don't love my life -- I'm extremely fortunate, but it is so filled with responsibilities that my daydreams are all about running away. Still, I do envy you, and if I had to do it all over again...

[sun-star]

I'd stay, as long as I could have the whole of England to live in, not just my little area, which is one of the ugliest parts. :rolleyes:

[Elvet]

I could live in the states for that kind of money. It would have to be some place that has a decent fall and winter (lots of snow). I like my change of seasons. I'm not interested in overseas travelling. ( Well, maybe New Zealand, but that's another story)

[afro-elf]

Elvet I guess for you it would mean that you are stuck in Ontario for ever or out of Canada forever. That's about 563 million in Canadian :p

[Elvet]

I suppose I could find enough to do in Onario forever, but I'd still rather go to the states, if I couldn't stay in Canada. Only $563 million CDN, eh?

[Renille]

HMM...could I go back to visit at all? Because as much as I want to leave WI someday, I would miss it after a while being gone. I guess my home is my Shire and I'm a Took or something. They still love their home, but they do want to get away sometimes. If I had to get out of my state forever, then I wouldn't take any money. (I don't want to trapped in my state, either.) But if I could visit every year or so...YES.

[Khadrane]

I would definitely stay in my state. Idaho rules! And there's lots of cool thing to do too.

[Rána Eressëa]

Away, away! Far away to beautiful places in Europe!

[Duddun]

I would choose to stay in state cause I wouldn't want to not be able to come back at all.