I'd imagine you could walk into Coutts or any sort of private bank. No idea how they guarantee your money though?
Say you’d won the £115M Euro Millions, would you go public?
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And you've got nothing there to say that he was paid for going public... and certainly nothing that would back up the ludicrous idea that 10% would be offered to the recent winners.
According to the below article it is nonsense:
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-lotto-winners-go-public-2016-1?r=UK&IR=T
Neighbours? With £100+ million in the bank there certainly wouldn't be any ******* neighbours!
Would never go public, just make sure some close family members are comfortable and disappear.
I’d probably get a new telly and some of those pumps with wheels on the back and lights on them. I think the sheer volume of questions that would come with such extravagance might be too much to handle so I’d only tell the Daily Mail who have my interests at hand.
I'm making up the story to annoy people
Or you just believed something someone told you rather too easily.
The idea of them paying a flat 10% to the current winners - which would work out at 11.5 million just doesn't make any sense and that's why you can't back up the claim.
Yes you're right, I'm gullible and he lied to me.
Because you move into a different world when you have significant wealth and as much as it annoys the average person to hear it, most haven’t a clue how to deal with it and have nothing in common with the very well off so struggle. That’s why.
You just don't go public, you've got that choice, going public is something you have to actively agree to do, you could just collect the prize money and request that they don't release your name. You can still be put into contact with a private bank, advisers etc..etc..
Well if I'm wrong then you could probably back up your claim, as you seemingly can't then it seems quite likely to me that it is a false claim. Don't take it personally but if you're going to make a claim that sounds a bit dubious and you're unable to justify it then why would people believe it?
I wouldn’t go public nor would I want to tbh
I can’t see why anybody would or indeed if they did I’d imagine they’d soon very much regret doing so.
I always thought of it in a way that if they didn’t already have a direction or purpose, then just having more money doesn’t solve any of their real problems.
There’s that study I recall on perceived happiness one year on from a person who won the lottery and a double amputee and they were very similar.
I'd go down to 3 day weeks, tell no one (as far as possible) and go about life as usual, but with no stress. That kind of figure is going to get you painted with a bullseye for every beggar, burglar and "best mate fallen on hard times" going. Not worth the hassle
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The best way to blend in is to just blend in. I wouldn’t know what to do with a ton of land anyway. A fiend of mine in the US has a lot of land (compared to us) and she posted on Facebook on how to keep the grass down without much work...
A comfortable size house, keep most of the money in the bank and investments and a house is just a house.
I’ve met and known many wealthy people and all of them have got there by hard work and none of them lives in the middle of nowhere. Sure a few have the odd Aston Martin or Audi R8 and one even have his own chauffeur but they seem pretty balance people to me, the circles they run in are of similar level so no one really come knocking on their door for handouts.
I guess once your social circle are of a certain level, your friends won’t care whether you have a million or 100 million.
We have created a society where people think the biggest house and the best cars on the estate, married to the nice holidays and some free cash on top to buy some holidays and ‘things’ that others want is being rich. Then you add the show the world that is Instagram and you have made it.
Bar the odd exception that is not the world of high net worths. They feel comfort in being with people like them, in similar passions, living in similar places and having similar outlooks. If you suddenly get 115m you can appear to be like them and may wish to try, but if you are on the dole, work on minium to average wage you won’t fit in and will struggle and many seem to really struggle with that. Now of course you can be on the dole but switched on and can build an epic life with a great future, but many winners seem to want the trinkets of wealth and to be seen amongst the wealthy and they stand out like a sore thumb and will probably struggle. They dump their old friends and realise none of their new ones are that interested when the money slows down.
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Money can’t buy class as they say. You can spot them a mile away. It’s like they walk around with a giant light on their head.
It’s not just here, the Chinese are one of the worst, with the recent economic growth a generation became practically overnight millionaires and they and their family go on holiday and you run into them in hotel lobbies and landmarks and they are so loud and obnoxious.
Indeed but the classy know how to deal with life be it poor or rich. Money does not make the man/woman/trans/unman/unwomen/alien/sis/cis/him/her/them/it as no one said