First thing I would definitely wanna do is buy a nice house under my name (since I am still young) and move my parents and my older brother in with us so that we never have to worry about renting a home or apartment again. Obviously I’d have to do a shit ton of research into whether or not it’s an HOA controlled area, because if it is, I ain’t living there period.
Then I’d have to make sure we have it set up the way we want (without spending too much on furniture, decor, etcetera) so we could live comfortably enough.
After all that is done, I’d probably pay my way through college while also, knowing me, buying things I actually don’t need (like art commissions and a fursuit for my fursona).
Although, I’d probably give a good chunk of the money to my parents so they can get rid of any debt they have (and some to my brother for the same reason).
Also, back on the house buying thing, there is a good chance I might just look for one directly next to an HOA operated area that they don’t have any jurisdiction or control over in any way whatsoever just so that my house could be breaking all of their rules with nothing the shitty HOA could do without going to court and losing since they don’t have rights over the house or land.
I’d get a house for me and my family. Make sure my parents have a house that meets their needs as well. I’d hire a personal trainer to get in shape and take a few months off work while I figure out what to do next.
Kaunas or Vilnius (I hope it’s not Vilnius) if I’d like to continue my career in IT, so 100k € for that.
That’s cheap as fuck. Is it even realistic, and then you’re going to go back to work?
I’d really have some mad and stupid ideas appearing in my head, 10k € for that
How are you going to implement any mad ideas when you essentially have to return to your full time job to survive, once giving 5+ years of salary to Ukraine? Absolutely terrible plan here.
A better plan (in my opinon only) would be to buy the properlty you want, or put the whole 1m in a pension index fund, then immediately retire, taking a 50k per year salary for life (well based on historical average stock market return). Then living in people’s air bnb’s across Europe and Japan contributing to FOSS projects. 50k per year will pay for education, allow you to pay into charities and make FOSS donations depending on how you live.
We have much smaller purchasing power here. Programmers’ salaries for Junior Developer are at around 20k to 30k a year in Lithuania and up to 50k a year for Senior developers, and this is only if you are really lucky.
Honestly, nothing in my life would change. I would still go to my 9-5 job, then gym, then food, then sleep. But knowing I have a billion dollars in my bank account.
There is a comment on “that other site” that goes in detail about what to do. It starts with “You’re fucked” and shows that you really have to be careful who to trust and what to do to not be bankrupt in a few years. I’m on mobile and short on time, but it’s worth reposting here.
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