Powerball Plans

Again I am stealing my inspiration from the BBM boys. GRP and Booj really started this one. They were discussing the US PowerBall lottery prize of $1.4B! That is an enormous sum. It could completely change the life of the winner and the kids' lives for generations for years to come. That amount of money is so unrealistic and unfathomable to me that I can hardly imagine what you would do with it. You'd be above the law, like Big Ern. I watch Island Hunters on HGTV and they only drop $2-3M for amazing tropical islands. With that prize money you could buy a fleet of islands! So anyways we very briefly started to flesh out what we'd do with that money. GRP was leading the discussion and the rest of us were being foolish. His idea would be to have a secluded home with all the possible amenities. He'd establish a think tank to help solves the world's problems. I inquired if his property would be an island and if so could I become his boat captain to bring people/items back and forth to the mainland. I indicated that I would like to be paid $75k/year and have a small cabin near the docks. I stand by that. His idea got me thinking about what I would do. As some of you know, I was previously looking at some acreage in the North. The plan was to slowly, over my years, build a modest cabin and spend off time there, hunting and fishing. I don't hunt or fish currently so the plan was fairly idealistic and lofty compared to my usual ideas. It isn't dead but it's pretty low on the priority list currently. So basing my first stab on that, I'd say that I would probably have a secluded property, not evil genius secluded and hidden but I'd like something out of the way that I could do whatever on. The kind of place you could build an underground bunker by hiring different crews for different parts and never let anyone know the full extent of what you've done. I'd also have a boat to live on, not a sail boat, this isn't New England. I'd want a small yacht, but right on the cusp of being just a big boat. I'd want to call it a yacht but it wouldn't be so big as to be restricted where I could go. Maybe a crew of one or two, room to sleep eight or so uncomfortably. I'd consider buying country property in Scotland also. Those would be my three primary residences. I'd have to have some kind of stop-over spot in a city too though, in order to attend to my investments. I'd put at least half into various investments. Something low risk. Basically put $450M into my bank account and accumulate interest and then operate off that interest. I'm sure I could fuel my yacht, pay utilities on my bunker and cabin, rent at my city spot and all the property taxes and up keep at my winter home. I'm sort of torn on whether I'd winter in Arizona or if I'd go somewhere more tropical. It's common knowledge that I don't care for the heat. Maybe I'd just do a few weeks at a resort or get a double wide in Florida with the snowbirds. That kind of stuff could be figured out later. Initially I'd have to establish my cabin and bunker property. There would have to be sufficient surround land purchased also to ensure seclusion. A full on compound is what I would. Perhaps I'd have a business office established on the edge of said property. This post is getting a bit long so I'll stop short but I'm not done with this. I haven't even talked about the stuff I'd do, just where I'd live. Yeah, there will be more.