Personally i dont see how one can make a choice like this based only on money and not on other lifestyle factors.
States without question
Montana or Alaska.
Why not live like a king in SE ASIA?
Australia...and if i did go US then it would have to be Hawaii or Florida keys and then not sure 1.5 mill would be enough in the Keys or Hawaii?
Beach front in land locked Montana: or with polar bears in Alaska..its certainly a change.
Depends whether you want to live like the Hollywood set or experience the States on on a level that most do. To the former 1,5M wont go far.
If you`re after a bit of adventure, do what I and 2 mates did Jul -Sept `07 for 8 weeks.
We bought a `96 Camry for US$2400.00, saw 37 states, stayed in 3* motels that were more than comfortable, paid for food, budweisers, Tshirts, gifts, National Park fees, petrol and air fares there and back, and across The Grand Canyon and it cost me a little over AU15000.00. And at the end we sold the car to the motel manager in LA. on leaving, for US500.00!
That makes $1,500,000.00 minus $15000.00. lots of spending money for property and seeing more of the USA. Trouble is there are things called visa requirements and if you want to settle there you may have to find a nice yankee gal to legitimize it.
I believe property ownership has, as a non US citizen, its own set of problems unless you have relations over there.
But to to the question of if, Gordon, I`ll always call Australia home.
Such a good holiday Buck, my family did something similar for 8 weeks (rented a car) and seeing as though we used frequent flyer points for the 4 of us (so the flights there and back cost $0) it didn't cost much over what we would have been spending at home during the holidays.
(I know some people who live there at the moment and they say during the GFC and since then things have been significantly cheaper)
N.T
Newbie, my experience since that US holiday (pre GFC) is that a 5 days round Temora, Cootamundra, Canberra, for myself and my son two months ago, everything included and travel a bit north of Sydney, was nudging $750.00.
No wonder people want to holiday OS. the way the dollar is.
Believe for no good reason that Aus is expensive generally so the answer from financial perspective would seem to be the US. Some cheap real estate in places like Georgia.
Still, I lived in Thailand for 3 years and can say its different living somewhere to visiting. The US would likely drive me nuts, get enough US culture here. Aus for me.
Why not broaden your horizon and look somewhere completely different.
A guy I worked with emigrated to Australia.
His cousins emigrated to the USA.
He cousin says that when they want help with their property, they just go to the hardware store where there are desperate people just sitting out the front. His cousin offers 1$ for 3 hours work and he gets plenty of offers, He picks one and the guy will do the hard work.
The cousin regrets greatly not choosing Australia. He hates the poverty everywhere and the desperation. Also his Australian cousin (they are both African) has had rapid promotion while he seems to be stuck even though he has equal qualifications. Their house is bigger though.
Australia...and if i did go US then it would have to be Hawaii or Florida keys and then not sure 1.5 mill would be enough in the Keys or Hawaii?
Beach front in land locked Montana: or with polar bears in Alaska..its certainly a change.
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