Fantasy Thread: If Money Wasn't An Object

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  1. The Rhetoric of Life

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    And you could afford anything.


    What would you drive where?
    What properties would you own where?
    How would you furnish them?
    Who would you hire for what?
    What things would you buy?
    What things would you install into what you buy?
    What would you do, if money wasn't an object?

    Please; as much links and pictures as you can;
    If you see something for sale online, and would own it if money wasn't an object; link it/post it by all means.
     
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    I'm not a big money hungry guy, but with unlimited amount of money ?

    I would try to build something like Versailles but much, much smaller, human sized.
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    Or even a space station with artificial gravity, forest in it. Just for the idea of life being outside of earth.
     
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    I would drive a Mini Cooper and be living on a Selene 44' in San Diego Bay. I would then hook up with people like Bill Gates and see if I could use my wealth to make some important contributions in the world.
     
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    I'd keep my home in Thornton Heath.

    I'd buy a holiday home in Springfield, Oregon, 97477, USA as close to Main Street as I can get.
    I'd buy a lime green 2021 Dodge Demon for fun and an 1980's station wagon for day to day chores like shopping and more shopping (and eating out and stuff) and register them to myself at that address so they'd have local license plates (period Oregon plates maybe for the 1980's station wagon).
    I'd have high end guitars I like here, and an indoor hot tub, and whatever it'll be, will get a central heating hot water system installed.

    This place has Eugene's airport (EUG), and to fly between this place and my native London where I'd retain and still have this place I have now (at least) (maybe something else somewhere else in London as well) would be LHR - EUG / EUG - LHR would either see me buying and expanding Eugene's airport and funding my own airline, cutting a deal with American customs to upgrade this to an international airport, build customs and immigration... Or fly Delta and connect somewhere (probably the latter), as it will just be a holiday home).

    I guess I could charter a flight direct, but, meah.

    I'd also see myself having other places in other cities, and I'd only probably use this place in Oregon in at any amount of times between the months of April - November anyway as I'd want to get out of there before winter rolled in.
     
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    I would have a serious cocaine habit!
     
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    I'd start colonizing mars.
     
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    I'd commission a ship that'll look like the Titanic full sized to scale but update the engines for modern engines and a big enough rudder and safer hull and call it my yacht and put a speed boat on board and a life boat or 2 two on it for me wherever I am on board just in case it sinks.
    I'd have to have enough life boats and capacity for escape for me and any crew I'd have to hire to use the thing and serve me and my guests.
    My cats could even be the ship's cats on the thing while I'm on it for all I care.
    Maybe a Helipad too?
    "My Titanic"
    Might even call it something cheesy like that if not Titanic II.
     
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    Look at my "yatch".
     
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    submersible yacht [​IMG]
     
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    and a huge ranch... from mountain range to mountain range in Chihuahua State.
     
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    I'd buy a couple of Dodges and a Ferarri or two.

    I'd have two 2021 Dodge Demons, one in Oregon, one in the UK, both identical but one registered in the UK (either in this place or another) and one in Oregon, they'd both be Lime Green Dodge Demons and I haven't seen one in the UK yet so I'd love to get one of them on British roads.
    I'd have two 1970 Dodge Challengers one black one registered in California (Southern California, close to or in Los Angeles) and one white one registered in Pennsylvania. I'd have the white one at least turbo charged and get my Vanish Point (1971) on with it, out in PA.
    I'd have 1 1980's station wagon registered to me in Oregon too; for day to day stuff while making use of my holiday home there enjoying a life style at that pace of living.
    I'd have one Ferrari 458 Spider in New Jersey, gold plated, and one Ferrari 458 Italia, red, registered in New York .
    I'd find an 1970's Jaguagr XJS and register that to my place I'd have in Brooklyn.

    I'd have this place in Thornton Heath, a place in Mayfair, a holiday home in Springfield, Oregon (as close to their Main Street in their old part of town as I can get); Somewhere in Pennsylvania just outside of Philadelphia to be close to family there, somewhere on the Jersey Shore to be close to family there, and two places in New York City, one in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, and one in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

    I'd have homes and cars all over the place, with particular cars registered at particular locations so I could think of a place I'd have with a car I'd have access to at that property.

    I'd also have a Harley Davidson (or 2) in Thornton Heath and a Ducati in Pennsylvania.
     
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    This'd be me in Philadelphia

    lol
     
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    https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/105383723#/
    This is a fantastic old building
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    in a great location!!!
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    I'd have it finished/fixed up, and decorated to suite me, with guitars and whatnot in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, UK.

    It's a 3 bedroom house with a view
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    and it's an old building
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    and needs work doing,
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    but I'd have it done if I bought this place and money wasn't an object.
     
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    I'd have to call an architect for this place in Whitby, I could probably afford to call one in from anywhere on Earth, if money wasn't an object, get the best money can buy because I'd want to redesign this so this roof has guttering and rain won't pool and leak through like it has done here, I'd like to channel the rain water out through the masonry, and to a down pipe, and I'd have a plumber build a drain for it if need be and I'd apply to North Yorkshire for the planning permission to have all of this done.

    I'd try and buy out the lot where the shop is underneath, and make a small independent business for myself to do there in Whitby that will run at a loss but will be for the people of Whitby and London.

    I'm thinking, buy electric busses, have them run from London to Whitby (via West Croydon) and sell tickets in Whitby at £2.50 rtn for an adult to West Croydon and £5.00 return for London and in London and Croydon, charge no far going to Whitby.
    I'd under cut the railways and the busses and offer a better bus service (first class air conditioned coaches wifi entertainment screen with limousine tinted windows for the pesky sun) that is cheaper than the local busses maybe and these will cross England.
    Just for fun.

    I'd also have another bus with this company serving Teeside Intl Airport for those London flights, that will be £2.50 each way on another bus with 2 services really; The London via West Croydon service and the Teeside Internal Airport service that will be scheduled around the London flights.

    I'd have my coaches in salmon pink as a base colour and macaroon beige accents with a chrome silhouette of the Whitbey Abbey ruins with white letters too going over the pink and the chrome that'll read 'The Whitby Express' for the logo and I'd have the front have a LCD or better display displaying nice and bright the destination names; going to Whitby it will read London via West Croydon.
    In London it will say Whitby via West Croydon.
     
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    I've been thinking about Custom House in Whitby, and if I took it over, I'd turn it into a 1 stop shop of high end custom guitars (instead of a ticketing office).
    I'd see how much money talks on the lease of the Ladbrokes (Bookies) down stairs to be the showroom with high end American guitars in the window like it was straight out of Denmark Street in London.
    I'd source Gibsons and Fenders and anything else cool.
    I'd also sell high end amplifiers (so you can try a guitar in store) and I'd sell Bear Strap guitar straps too so Custom House in Whitby would be right at home in Denmark Street London.

    I'd also offer a 'dream guitar service' when you come in with your ultimate guitar wish, and we'd create it (put my guitar cloning skills to use and give others their dream guitar).
    I'd make Custom House the best guitar shop in North Yorkshire in the hope to bring my favourite guitarists through those doors.

    It being Whitby, I'd make it a Gothic themed guitar shop in decor like my name was Danny Koker, and have Level 1, the electrics show room, high end guitars by abundance in the window serving as eye candy, as well as on the walls and in the middle; with the counter also being the booking in for any repairs or custom work, which I'd offer 7 days a week.
    Level 2 would be storage for guitar cases and boxes and will be staff only.
    Level 3 would be acoustic guitars, and I'd make sure to keep that window/view free so customers can sit down and play an acoustic guitar and enjoying that view.
    Level 4/top floor, my custom shop, where I clone guitars pretty much; turn a high end guitar into a replica high end guitar of your favourite guitar hero (or of your own design).
    I'd sell guitars and guitar parts and accessories, all high end things that should put Custom House on the guitar map, if money wasn't an object.

    Where other guitar shops in the area seem great, this one will be 'another level' dealing solely in high end brands and models as well as offering servicing and customisation as well.

    Having it be a betting shop/bookies I want to buy out the lease of, means the door's probably got a good lock on it and there's probably a safe.
     
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    I'd also hire Whitby Pavilion, and book bands like Guns N' Roses and Simply Red and Metallica and The Cure and Deftones etc and try and run that as the entertain one Halloween/Goth Weekend, and then I'd televise it and make it for charity and call it Whitby Rock (because it's on the coast and places by the beach in the UK have their own ones called 'insert place name' Rock; I'd host Whitby Rock at Whitby Pavilion on Goth Weekend and book all these bands in advanced for it.
     
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