A million to stay or go.

afro-elf · 08-30-2002, 05:17 AM

If you were offered a million USD tax free to either stay in your state ( or equivalent of) forever or the same deal but stay out of your country forever which would you choose?

I'd take the latter.

Artanis · 08-30-2002, 05:27 AM

My first thought was definately to stay in my country. I'm very in love with Norway! But then I had second thoughts. I like travelling, and there's a lot of places in the world I would like to visit but haven't come around to do yet. Still, never be able to come back....this is difficult! But probably, I would choose to stay...I think .... for the moment....

Sween · 08-30-2002, 05:36 AM

ill be stright off. Off to spain where its warm that or oz or new zeland cos new zeland is well cheep.

osszie · 08-30-2002, 07:10 AM

The cash would be very tempting......

but I could never leave Englands fair shores forever..........besides, a million dollars isn't that much money (relatively speaking)............make it ten mil and I might just slip a few clothes into my suitcase

Artanis · 08-30-2002, 07:17 AM

Oh, if status quo is an option, that is waving goodbye to money and be free to go wherever I want, I most certainly would have chosen that.

Freedom is vital.

Spock · 08-30-2002, 07:22 AM

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Originally posted by Artanis
My first thought was definately to stay in my country. I'm very in love with Norway!

U'FDAH!

Artanis · 08-30-2002, 07:25 AM

Meaning?

BeardofPants · 08-30-2002, 07:34 AM

1 mill US is about 2.2 mill NZ. I'd go. I'm trying to get out anyway.

Lizra · 08-30-2002, 08:26 AM

I'd stay. I was planning on doing it anyway! Only place I might like to visit is Canada. I don't care for traveling AT ALL!

Menelvagor · 08-30-2002, 11:55 AM

I'd go, wasn't particularly planning on staying anyway.

Hasty Ent · 08-30-2002, 12:10 PM

I'd be gone so fast you'd smell the rubber burn...
I've had an ongoing fantasy about living a life where all my possessions fit in one carry on bag: I would stay in furnished apts/hotels and not have to worry about paying property taxes, mortgage, prop insurance, vehicle sticker for the car, auto ins, water-gas-elec bill, all the petty complications that keep you from living a life! I would travel the world -- and since I have no interest in 4 star ANYTHING, I could live on very little... Would I miss the US? No. Would I miss the Midwest? Definitely NOT!

LuthienTinuviel · 08-30-2002, 12:13 PM

i would be done with the US forever.
in most ways i already am.

katya · 08-30-2002, 12:22 PM

i would go for sure i think. i was planning on leaving america anyway. maybe i would smuggle myself in and visit....hm...no. that would really rock though. i wouldnt have to have a job. hehehe.

afro-elf · 08-30-2002, 01:14 PM

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Originally posted by Hasty Ent
I'd be gone so fast you'd smell the rubber burn...
I've had an ongoing fantasy about living a life where all my possessions fit in one carry on bag: I would stay in furnished apts/hotels and not have to worry about paying property taxes, mortgage, prop insurance, vehicle sticker for the car, auto ins, water-gas-elec bill, all the petty complications that keep you from living a life! I would travel the world -- and since I have no interest in 4 star ANYTHING, I could live on very little... Would I miss the US? No. Would I miss the Midwest? Definitely NOT!

My current job is like that. Get some kind of ESL certification and travel the world. I've been doing it for a few years.

afro-elf · 08-30-2002, 01:16 PM

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Originally posted by BeardofPants
1 mill US is about 2.2 mill NZ. I'd go. I'm trying to get out anyway.

Your Nubian snaga of earthly pleasures awaits thee.

Hasty Ent · 08-30-2002, 01:30 PM

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Originally posted by afro-elf

My current job is like that. Get some kind of ESL certification and travel the world. I've been doing it for a few years.

Sounds great, if it weren't for the fact that I am a caregiver for an aging parent (in addition to working one full time job, one part time job, and I am an active volunteer for a local arts organization). Not that I don't love my life -- I'm extremely fortunate, but it is so filled with responsibilities that my daydreams are all about running away. Still, I do envy you, and if I had to do it all over again...

sun-star · 08-31-2002, 07:53 AM

I'd stay, as long as I could have the whole of England to live in, not just my little area, which is one of the ugliest parts.

Elvet · 08-31-2002, 09:18 AM

I could live in the states for that kind of money. It would have to be some place that has a decent fall and winter (lots of snow). I like my change of seasons. I'm not interested in overseas travelling. ( Well, maybe New Zealand, but that's another story)

afro-elf · 08-31-2002, 01:24 PM

Elvet I guess for you it would mean that you are stuck in Ontario for ever or out of Canada forever. That's about 563 million in Canadian

Elvet · 08-31-2002, 01:36 PM

I suppose I could find enough to do in Onario forever, but I'd still rather go to the states, if I couldn't stay in Canada. Only $563 million CDN, eh?

08-30-2002, 05:17 AM	#1
afro-elf Hoplite Nomad Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 3,931	A million to stay or go. If you were offered a million USD tax free to either stay in your state ( or equivalent of) forever or the same deal but stay out of your country forever which would you choose? I'd take the latter. __________________ About Eowyn, Does anyone know what her alias Dernhelm means? She was kown as dernhelm because of her exclaimation when she realized that the rider's headgear was heavy and obscured her sight. 'Dern Helm" Culled from Entmoot From Kirinski 57 and Wayfarer.

08-30-2002, 05:27 AM	#2
Artanis Greatest Elven woman of Aman Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Having way too much fun with Fëanor's 7 Posts: 4,285	My first thought was definately to stay in my country. I'm very in love with Norway! But then I had second thoughts. I like travelling, and there's a lot of places in the world I would like to visit but haven't come around to do yet. Still, never be able to come back....this is difficult! But probably, I would choose to stay...I think .... for the moment.... __________________ --Life is hard, and then we die.

08-30-2002, 05:36 AM	#3
Sween im quite stupid Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Cockermouth Posts: 2,058	ill be stright off. Off to spain where its warm that or oz or new zeland cos new zeland is well cheep. __________________ Yeah god hes ok but i would rather be judged by a sheep than that idiot

08-30-2002, 07:17 AM	#5
Artanis Greatest Elven woman of Aman Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Having way too much fun with Fëanor's 7 Posts: 4,285	Oh, if status quo is an option, that is waving goodbye to money and be free to go wherever I want, I most certainly would have chosen that. Freedom is vital. __________________ --Life is hard, and then we die.

08-30-2002, 07:25 AM	#7
Artanis Greatest Elven woman of Aman Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Having way too much fun with Fëanor's 7 Posts: 4,285	Meaning? __________________ --Life is hard, and then we die.

08-30-2002, 07:10 AM	#4
osszie Elven Warrior Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 409	The cash would be very tempting...... but I could never leave Englands fair shores forever..........besides, a million dollars isn't that much money (relatively speaking)............make it ten mil and I might just slip a few clothes into my suitcase

08-30-2002, 07:34 AM	#8
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	1 mill US is about 2.2 mill NZ. I'd go. I'm trying to get out anyway. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords Last edited by BeardofPants : 08-30-2002 at 07:35 AM.

08-30-2002, 08:26 AM	#9
Lizra Domesticated Swing Babe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Reality Posts: 5,340	I'd stay. I was planning on doing it anyway! Only place I might like to visit is Canada. I don't care for traveling AT ALL!

08-30-2002, 11:55 AM	#10
Menelvagor Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: lurking on the edge of conversations Posts: 924	I'd go, wasn't particularly planning on staying anyway.

08-30-2002, 12:10 PM	#11
Hasty Ent Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 516	I'd be gone so fast you'd smell the rubber burn... I've had an ongoing fantasy about living a life where all my possessions fit in one carry on bag: I would stay in furnished apts/hotels and not have to worry about paying property taxes, mortgage, prop insurance, vehicle sticker for the car, auto ins, water-gas-elec bill, all the petty complications that keep you from living a life! I would travel the world -- and since I have no interest in 4 star ANYTHING, I could live on very little... Would I miss the US? No. Would I miss the Midwest? Definitely NOT!

08-30-2002, 12:13 PM	#12
LuthienTinuviel protector of orphaned rabbits Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Kalamazoo... yes, its a real place! Posts: 1,236	i would be done with the US forever. in most ways i already am. __________________

08-30-2002, 12:22 PM	#13
katya Elven Maiden Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,309	i would go for sure i think. i was planning on leaving america anyway. maybe i would smuggle myself in and visit....hm...no. that would really rock though. i wouldnt have to have a job. hehehe.

08-31-2002, 07:53 AM	#17
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I'd stay, as long as I could have the whole of England to live in, not just my little area, which is one of the ugliest parts. __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. Last edited by sun-star : 08-31-2002 at 07:54 AM.

08-31-2002, 09:18 AM	#18
Elvet Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Orillia, Ontario Posts: 221	I could live in the states for that kind of money. It would have to be some place that has a decent fall and winter (lots of snow). I like my change of seasons. I'm not interested in overseas travelling. ( Well, maybe New Zealand, but that's another story) __________________ "But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

08-31-2002, 01:24 PM	#19
afro-elf Hoplite Nomad Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 3,931	Elvet I guess for you it would mean that you are stuck in Ontario for ever or out of Canada forever. That's about 563 million in Canadian __________________ About Eowyn, Does anyone know what her alias Dernhelm means? She was kown as dernhelm because of her exclaimation when she realized that the rider's headgear was heavy and obscured her sight. 'Dern Helm" Culled from Entmoot From Kirinski 57 and Wayfarer.

08-31-2002, 01:36 PM	#20
Elvet Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Orillia, Ontario Posts: 221	I suppose I could find enough to do in Onario forever, but I'd still rather go to the states, if I couldn't stay in Canada. Only $563 million CDN, eh? __________________ "But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

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