We aren’t crazy wealthy, but we have enough equity in a high value real estate market that if we sold our house and moved to many places I’m the world we could live well without being required to work. As a result we have asked ourselves many times: “where would we go and what would we do?” And don’t have a better place then we are (near both our families) or our current jobs. Our kids are in school, so traveling is limited, since we don’t want to make home schooling our job.
The only thing I wish we could afford is first class airfare when we do fly once a year or so, but I wouldn’t call that life changing.
However much for a house, so at least 750k, but probably more like 1.2 million if you want to home that is near a rail station. I’m not moving back to a rural state that hates me and people like me.
Better make that $100 trillion (a rough estimate of the world economy’s nominal value) to make sure you don’t cripple our whole civilisation, as it would allow you to pay for basically every single company on the planet, all of which would suddenly have to invest a lot of money to move at least some of their IT infrastructure over to a GNU/Linux equivalent, much of which may not even exist yet and would have to be built from scratch.
Fuck that shit. I’ll release all Microsoft code under GPL so people can figure their own shit out. As for people who built their business on Azure? The will reap what they sowed.
Make me your king, and I will take us to the GNU-Slash-Linux holy land.
Enough to leave eu-cool back to South Africa for good since quality of life and the political landscape is worsening to the extent where I might even be in some degree of danger. Also work hasn’t allowed me to leave for the Friday prayer, so there’s that. I do get paid on Monday so after bills that leaves me with a little over €5,000 saved. The extra money would pay for the flight, buying a 1BR apartment outright with maybe spending a few grand on renovations and living expenses would be covered for at least 3 years, leeway to find an income.
I suppose the silver lining is that I am able to add an extra €400 a month to my savings, so this goal is at least materializing albeit slower than I’d like.
$300. I am on disability so my income is tiny. I’ve just moved into a shitty old house with a bunch of strangers and still spend more than half my income on rent, but I’m finally not losing money every month. $300 would give me just enough buffer to put my head above water and keep it there.
I think about 1k USD would improve my life a lot at the moment and in the future. I’m in the process of moving countries for a job and I need to have my things shipped. I already live abroad, so I can’t leave anything behind. Anything I cannot afford to ship I will have to give away or dispose. With all the moving expenses, I have no idea how much money I have left for shipping, but 1k would allow me to ship everything stress free.
Pretty sure I would need a few million for any significant improvement, like being able to hire help around the house while still being able to afford life and save for later.
That seems like a lot for this question but it’s honestly the only thing that significantly would. Cars and goods are great but just materialistic and I can live without them just fine. But give me a place for my family and I to live and our lives would be significantly improved, because we’d not have to deal with landlords, renting, we could modify the house to our needs, have pets and not stress about constant rent hikes and the possibility of being evicted.
I think everyone should have the opportunity to own their own house and politicians are betraying society and entire generations of people by doing things that work heavily against it.
Probably £100k. £80k would be a huge help though. Would buy the house we are living in outright, that our landlord has been selling for over a year, ans the extra 20k would pay off our debt and give a few house repairs.
I love this house, I’m not ready to leave if someone buys it for themselves or if our landlord kicks us out before then.
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