RugbyRebels

Someone in the UK has won £61 mil this week on the Euro's Lottery .

What could you do with that much ? . Hope for World peace , buy a house in Knightsbridge and a static caravan in Lyme Regis .


Job Done .

Split it into thirds. One third mine. One third the wife's. final third is ours.

Stick aside £1 million for the wee man's education.

Couple of million on a house to live in.
Buy serviced chalet at Courcheval.

Give a bit away, live on the interest.

I'd buy Greece, then retire there.

Look after friends and (some) family members . Buy a decent house in the Uk with lots of land and get involved with the Rare Breeds Society . Make some serious donations to some struggling worthwhile charities .

no homes abroad as I would be staying at 5* hotels .

I'd invest in a Welsh region and see if it were possible to turn one into a success.

Or if I fancied an easier challenge, I'd go for world peace and a cure for cancer.

Sandydragon wrote:I'd invest in a Welsh region and see if it were possible to turn one into a success.

Or if I fancied an easier challenge, I'd go for world peace and a cure for cancer.

Why have a piece when you can have the whole thing....

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/inte ... 0804111819

£61 million is a toughie.

I'd buy some houses and flats. Some here (3mil ish, around 40 flats), as it's a good investment, a couple in the UK for immediate returns (2mil ish, 2 to 4 houses), and one in Bali and one in the Transylvanian countryside for holidays(1 mil, 2 houses).

I'd buy a large number of social housing flats here (14mil ish, around 280 flats) (too expensive in London), and rent them out to poorer people at low rent.

I'd invest in a local football and rugby team, and link them together. Try and build the game, improve youth training and bring youngsters in off the streets. (the 40 million that is left)

Well, except the 1 millions I'd spend on my own stuff

Income would be a lovely £40,000-50,000/month after expenses and tax, discounting the sports income. Looks good to me.

Open a Swiss bank account.

Stom wrote:£61 million is a toughie.

I'd buy some houses and flats. Some here (3mil ish, around 40 flats), as it's a good investment, a couple in the UK for immediate returns (2mil ish, 2 to 4 houses), and one in Bali and one in the Transylvanian countryside for holidays(1 mil, 2 houses).

I'd buy a large number of social housing flats here (14mil ish, around 280 flats) (too expensive in London), and rent them out to poorer people at low rent.

I'd invest in a local football and rugby team, and link them together. Try and build the game, improve youth training and bring youngsters in off the streets. (the 40 million that is left)

Well, except the 1 millions I'd spend on my own stuff

Income would be a lovely £40,000-50,000/month after expenses and tax, discounting the sports income. Looks good to me.

Flats? You could buy a row of terraced houses in this area and build up a nice community.

Sandydragon wrote:

Stom wrote:£61 million is a toughie.

I'd buy some houses and flats. Some here (3mil ish, around 40 flats), as it's a good investment, a couple in the UK for immediate returns (2mil ish, 2 to 4 houses), and one in Bali and one in the Transylvanian countryside for holidays(1 mil, 2 houses).

I'd buy a large number of social housing flats here (14mil ish, around 280 flats) (too expensive in London), and rent them out to poorer people at low rent.

I'd invest in a local football and rugby team, and link them together. Try and build the game, improve youth training and bring youngsters in off the streets. (the 40 million that is left)

Well, except the 1 millions I'd spend on my own stuff

Income would be a lovely £40,000-50,000/month after expenses and tax, discounting the sports income. Looks good to me.

Flats? You could buy a row of terraced houses in this area and build up a nice community.

Different country, different system...

Flats are like this, and the entire centre has pretty much nothing else.

I'd forgotten that you are abroad. Fair enough. When I think of flats, my opinion is clouded by the council flats I spent too much time in as a youth!

Lets be honest. I'd last a week. A class drugs off strippers asses in a vegas penthouse with Charlie Sheen egging me on. I'd then jump out the window.

If I survived that. I'd travel. Forever.

If I got bored of that I'd either get a rediculous mansion in central Otago or a little cottage type affair in a similar location. I'd have an arsenal of guns for pest control. And utes. Lots of utes.

Was talking to someone yesterday who's neighbour is the brother~in~law of the winner ( who lives in the Forest of Dean area apparently ) . They haven't spoken for years over some family rift . Time for a ' lets be friends again ' 'phone call duthink?


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That's about NZ$110,000,000, so I'll buy a home in Auckland and I'll probably have about $20 left.


For reals though, give my mum about $20000000, pay off my brother's mortgage, buy myself a home a bit out of the way with nice views, pay off my friends' student loans, finance my best friend's studies ongoing university studies, and retire early.

Discreet Hooker wrote:Was talking to someone yesterday who's neighbour is the brother~in~law of the winner ( who lives in the Forest of Dean area apparently ) . They haven't spoken for years over some family rift . Time for a ' lets be friends again ' 'phone call duthink?


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That raises an interesting question, we all fall out with people or simply drift apart as other priorities take over, but suppose you did strike it rich in the lotto, a few weeks later there's a phone call from that distant friend/ relation, would you take the call? Would you rekindle the relationship?or would you not even take the call?

I think I'd take the call, just to see how they approached me

BBD wrote:

Discreet Hooker wrote:Was talking to someone yesterday who's neighbour is the brother~in~law of the winner ( who lives in the Forest of Dean area apparently ) . They haven't spoken for years over some family rift . Time for a ' lets be friends again ' 'phone call duthink?


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That raises an interesting question, we all fall out with people or simply drift apart as other priorities take over, but suppose you did strike it rich in the lotto, a few weeks later there's a phone call from that distant friend/ relation, would you take the call? Would you rekindle the relationship?or would you not even take the call?

I think I'd take the call, just to see how they approached me

Well they do say money talks !


Interesting one tho' .

There's only a handful of people I'd tell that I won and how much, and it certainly wouldn't cover wider family. Even for relatively close family if I'd won £61million I'd wait until there'd been a much smaller UK win and would say that that's what I'd won.

I think one would do well to keep a win the size of £61 million quiet. You'd not to not let it slip, not have anyone you told let it slip, not have anyone in/at the lottery or a bank, financial advisors or lawyers mention it. And typically a big group of people doesn't keep a secret.

Restart the Caley Reds.

OptimisticJock wrote:Restart the Caley Reds.

How quickly do you think you'd burn through the money? Though you could hire some uber talented young Aussies and Kiwis just to hear the complaints from their unions.

Digby wrote:

OptimisticJock wrote:Restart the Caley Reds.

How quickly do you think you'd burn through the money? Though you could hire some uber talented young Aussies and Kiwis just to hear the complaints from their unions.

It would be a joint venture with the Sru so not too quickly. Could easy stick 40mil in and that would last years.

OptimisticJock wrote:

Digby wrote:

OptimisticJock wrote:Restart the Caley Reds.

How quickly do you think you'd burn through the money? Though you could hire some uber talented young Aussies and Kiwis just to hear the complaints from their unions.

It would be a joint venture with the Sru so not too quickly. Could easy stick 40mil in and that would last years.

I've little sense of how much money there'd be to help fund such from the SRU, sponsors and fans. But especially if there was a full youth setup and community schemes the money could go very quickly.

OptimisticJock wrote:

Digby wrote:

OptimisticJock wrote:Restart the Caley Reds.

How quickly do you think you'd burn through the money? Though you could hire some uber talented young Aussies and Kiwis just to hear the complaints from their unions.

It would be a joint venture with the Sru so not too quickly. Could easy stick 40mil in and that would last years.

Maybe as many as 3 or 4...

The Sru spend about 6 million per year on the pro teams

Do you genuinely think pro12 teams are losing 10 million a year?