Here's a million quid

[Noggin]

Farking ell, you lot could argue about anything! Glad I don't live next to any of you kunts

Not even for a Million?

A million isn't enough!!!

[Ant]

Farking ell, you lot could argue about anything! Glad I don't live next to any of you kunts

I'm still trying to work it out.

The only bloke that sounded happy was Yorick with his million pound bank balance and dream house on a tropical island - everyone else seemed annoyed about it and at pains to explain that they're happier being poorer

Not really, loads of people said they'd take the money.

[Count Steer]

Farking ell, you lot could argue about anything! Glad I don't live next to any of you kunts

I'm still trying to work it out.

The only bloke that sounded happy was Yorick with his million pound bank balance and dream house on a tropical island - everyone else seemed annoyed about it and at pains to explain that they're happier being poorer

Not really, loads of people said they'd take the money.

I asked the missus and she said 'Well, yes, obvs. Why not?'

[Noggin]

I'm still trying to work it out.

The only bloke that sounded happy was Yorick with his million pound bank balance and dream house on a tropical island - everyone else seemed annoyed about it and at pains to explain that they're happier being poorer

Not really, loads of people said they'd take the money.

I asked the missus and she said 'Well, yes, obvs. Why not?'

TBF, I'd love the money to buy a garage up here and have a couple of specific bikes. But I don't want to live anywhere else for a whole year , that side of it wouldn't be worth it I'll keep working on the other route to getting there!

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I'd like the money, I could retire (if I had £330,000 I would never have to work again and not have any drop in living standards), would I move, possibly, where to, probably the Lincolnshire Wolds and maybe a property in southern Portugal for winter.

My comments were that a location doesn't make you happy or unhappy, it's you that decides that, I lived in a caravan with no inside bathroom for the first 7 years of my life, followed by 15 years on a council estate, I don't remember either of them being full of unhappy people, both were just like living anywhere else that I've lived.

[Mussels]

The only places that have made me unhappy have all been by the sea, it's depressing. It doesn't help that they were isolated and run down, but that's what you usually get on the coast.

[Mr. Dazzle]

The only real thing I miss about Portsmouth - other than the family - is the fact it's by the sea!

But yeah I'd go with run down for the most part

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

My comments were that a location doesn't make you happy or unhappy, it's you that decides that...

If only it were true it would solve a lot of issues, someone would be able to have a quiet word with the people on the Calais coast and they'd stop risking their lives (and their children's) to sail across the channel, it would ease the housing crisis because people would be happy to live in caravans in lay-bys on the A34, house prices would be uniform all over the country, etc.

Like Yambo said, happiness is relative, a lot of the time people say things like "I'm happy where I am but if I won the lottery I'd move" or "I'm not driven by money but of course I'd like more" or something similar, I think if you do a survey of the average UK person then most would be in that category.

Personally though I think you only have one life so why settle for anything other than your dream life. I've never really understood that lack of ambition and consequently I've never understood the resent some people have if others do have their dream life, it's out there for everyone, you just have to work for it.

Whatever, I've got my opinion, you've got yours, no amount of discussion is going to make either of us change our opinions.

[Noggin]

You know, I've 100% agreed with the big cheese but actually, thinking about it, if you said I had to leave here and live somewhere else, I wouldn't be 'as' happy anywhere else.

Ok, maybe happy isn't the correct word. I can 'be' happy anywhere that I've previously lived (if you remove some of the people!) and so I expect I could 'be' happy anywhere else.

But where I am now gives me calm, makes me feel that life's ok (when it really hasn't been), cheers me up when I'm sad.

No where else has ever done that. Guernsey was close, and I always thought I'd live by the sea - until i came here.

So, I think both @Le_Fromage_Grande and @Potter are right. Bizarre as that seems, it's not just a case of right or wrong / opposite opinions, it's more complicated than that.

People can think themselves happy anywhere if they choose to do that, it's survival sometimes.

But sometimes we are lucky enough to find a place we can live that is more - it shares happiness with us, sometimes we may still have to think ourselves happy, but overall the 'place' enables us to be happy without us having to think about it*





*God that makes me sound like an old hippy!! You'd never know I grew up near Glastonbury!!

[Count Steer]

I think there is an element of western naivety going on here, I wonder how you'd get on if I dropped any of you in a Bangladeshi slum for a year, covered in cockroaches and filth, no health system and ten to a room, and told you that happiness is a state of mind.

I bet you'd have a bit of a moan about it

I do wonder though, if you gave someone in that type of situation a decent job, somewhere nice to live etc whether the first thing they'd do is migrate. Wouldn't many people be happier living in their 'home', just in better circumstances? I hesitate to use the term 'belong' as it's potentially loaded but there is a sense of 'belonging' to a place, just as there is of being a stranger in a strange land. Of course, some of us find another place where we feel we belong but most don't and don't look for one. Some of us enjoy the expat/wanderer experience but it may help if you know you can go 'home' if you want to, even if you never actually do.

[DefTrap]

Maybe it's to do with upbringing to some extent?

I had a happy, comfortable, warm home as a kid - nice enough area, had everything we needed. I've never felt the need to wander too much (I don't moving to France as 'wandering', although plenty would).
And yet I know plenty of people who had rubbish, unhappy or deprived childhoods who (a) literally can't wait to get away from where they were (b) will put up with any conditions in far flung areas because they've had worse (c) never really recognised 'home' as a thing.

Probably completely wrong on this. It's probably far more likely that left-wing media have persuaded me to think this way.

[Count Steer]

Maybe it's to do with upbringing to some extent?

I had a happy, comfortable, warm home as a kid - nice enough area, had everything we needed. I've never felt the need to wander too much (I don't moving to France as 'wandering', although plenty would).
And yet I know plenty of people who had rubbish, unhappy or deprived childhoods who (a) literally can't wait to get away from where they were (b) will put up with any conditions in far flung areas because they've had worse (c) never really recognised 'home' as a thing.

There are also those that had a very happy childhood but were ecstatic to spread their wings and get out of their home town and 'see the world' and were prepared for a little, erm, downgrade in accommodation etc in order to do it.

(Knowing that there was always somewhere they'd be welcome back with open arms, a bed and a good feed if it all went wrong ).

[Taipan]

Only thing is you have to live in the place you were the least happy for 2 years.
For me it would be North Wales, and you can shove your money where the sun don't shine (probably Wales as well).

I haven't lived anywhere I've been unhappy? I moved away once but returned here a couple of years later as I missed being close to family and friends. I'd certainly move back there for million quid though!

I live in a little bungalow. We bought it back in the 90s needing refurbing, heating putting in etc. The plan was to do it up make a few quid and move on to the next property. But we fell in love with the place and never left. It's the family hub, we host everything here, BBQs, Xmas dinners and even my Mums wedding reception. It's a tough town I live in but I've never really been affected by crime, apart from my x-adv being nicked but that was targeted through ebay.

Would we live anywhere else? We may sell up here and move nearer my daughter when we retire, but i'd be loathed to leave here really. Despite the town's reputation, the location suits us for a lot of things, the coast is 2 stops away on the train and London 40 minutes in the opposite direction. Lots of woodlands to walk dogs in, good shops,pubs and restaurants etc. I guess we could get that elsewhere and its just familiarity really though?

We'd always planned to buy a second home in Spain and go there for winters, but I don't think we'll do that now. Its such a terrible property market from an investment point of view. We'd be better to put the money into a rental flat here and use the income to rent a place there, but I cant see us doing that. I think we'd just go somewhere hot for jan and feb and not the same place each time. I suppose I'll know when the time actually comes?

[porter_jamie]

least happy. i lived in christchurch for a year or so in 2000 and wasnt having a particularly great time, however the place was lovely, river, boats, beach, new forest etc so yeah id be all over that for a mill.

[Demannu]

least happy. i lived in christchurch for a year or so in 2000 and wasnt having a particularly great time, however the place was lovely, river, boats, beach, new forest etc so yeah id be all over that for a mill.

If you mean NZ, they had a bit of an earthquake which re-arranged things a bit.
If you mean Dorset, knock yourself out!

[Hoonercat]

Give me 20 mill and I wouldn't go back to UK.

Have we started the collection yet?

[Cousin Jack]

Back on Page 1 of this thread I said i could hack the move. I am still waiting for my £1M.

[Count Steer]

Minor detail. Do we get the ££s when we sign up or at the end of the two years?

[Cousin Jack]

Minor detail. Do we get the ££s when we sign up or at the end of the two years?

Would you trust this lot to pay up after 2 years?

[Count Steer]

Minor detail. Do we get the ££s when we sign up or at the end of the two years?

Would you trust this lot to pay up after 2 years?

Good point, well made.