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Phillips_91

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13th Jun 12 at 18:36

1Billion, nothing ventured nothing gained!

mwg

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13th Jun 12 at 18:39

I'd take the million. I know what you are saying about it not going far these days but it would still set you up very nicely for life in terms of owning a really nice house with no mortgage.

mike56gte

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13th Jun 12 at 19:32

I garentee more than half the people saying they would take the gamble wouldnt if the actually situation was put in front of them.

I would take the million.

Nath

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13th Jun 12 at 19:34

quote:
Originally posted by mike56gte
I garentee more than half the people saying they would take the gamble wouldnt if the actually situation was put in front of them.

I would take the million.

Suitcase full of notes in front of you and everybody would take the £1m. I don't care what anybody says.

JonnyJ

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13th Jun 12 at 19:50

Gamble the for the billion then when I win that stick it all on zero.

What's 1 million quid like? You'd still be the poorest person on CS

mwg

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13th Jun 12 at 19:51

I would definitely be asking on here for recommendations for some portfolio managers

cpcrampton

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13th Jun 12 at 19:52

StuartVRS

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13th Jun 12 at 21:26

take the million buy 2 or 3 reasonable houses, rent them out and use that as income to eventually purchase more property to let and start to make some serious £££

N3CRO

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13th Jun 12 at 21:34

I'd take the £1m. I'm not greedy.

Russ

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13th Jun 12 at 21:40

i'd take the £1m and buy haribo shares

Jamie-C

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13th Jun 12 at 21:45

A million without a second thought!

Ian

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13th Jun 12 at 21:47

£1m and move house, finish my lorry and buy a cherry picker.

Invest a bit so it generates a bit of an income and combine that with the interest off the rest of it.

Billion is too much. Plus you might get nothing, and that would sting.

andy_mk3

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13th Jun 12 at 23:02

I'd take the million.

Pay off familys' debts, live comfortably for many years.

Toby

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14th Jun 12 at 05:38

I'd take the chance. Didn't have the million in the first place so my life wouldn't change. 1bn is to big a sum of money to walk away from

Rob_Quads

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14th Jun 12 at 07:49

The problem if everyone is offered the question is 1m suddenly becomes not a lot of money as a lot of people how have 1m or 1B so everything will suddenly jump in price. All the nice stuff will then be millions not 100,000s

Different if its a one off quiz

harrisp

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14th Jun 12 at 08:45

1 million, 400k on a nice house 100k on a few cars, 500k in the bank, maybe buy a couple of cheap houses to do up and rent out. Still work and live a comfortable life. Would be easy to waste it all but being sensible I would be very happy.

Marc

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14th Jun 12 at 09:05

quote:
Originally posted by JonnyJ
What's 1 million quid like? You'd still be the poorest person on CS

Fro

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14th Jun 12 at 09:17

quote:
Originally posted by harrisp
1 million, 400k on a nice house 100k on a few cars, 500k in the bank, maybe buy a couple of cheap houses to do up and rent out. Still work and live a comfortable life. Would be easy to waste it all but being sensible I would be very happy.

Too much to experience in the world to spend the rest of my life working when I could be financially stable for the rest of my existence without.

sc0ott

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14th Jun 12 at 15:20

Buy a car thats worth 1 million, and not think about running costs and insurance would be an option.

harrisp

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14th Jun 12 at 15:27

quote:
Originally posted by Fro

quote:
Originally posted by harrisp
1 million, 400k on a nice house 100k on a few cars, 500k in the bank, maybe buy a couple of cheap houses to do up and rent out. Still work and live a comfortable life. Would be easy to waste it all but being sensible I would be very happy.

Too much to experience in the world to spend the rest of my life working when I could be financially stable for the rest of my existence without.

After buying a house and a couple of cars you couldn't really retire so would still work but for my self not sure what doing probably plant hire or something

you could still experience life whilst working.

Colin

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14th Jun 12 at 18:32

£1M is plenty to set you up a very nice life ahead of you if your wise with it.

I'd take the mil, I'm notoriously unlucky so if I gambled for the bil I'd end up with nil

Scotty_B

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15th Jun 12 at 14:12

I'll take the million.

Given the choice in the real world I doubt most would bet 50/50.

mannion

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15th Jun 12 at 14:38

i'd go for the gamble if i'm honest, if it was a smaller percentage i'd take the million, and try live off the interest from the bank, or invest in a small business where it seems there will be more sales in a few years

Ash_EP3

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16th Jun 12 at 12:43

£1m is plenty if you are sensible with it... You could easily buy a nice house a decent motor and have over half of it left... yea it's not enough for you to retire on but you will be able to retire a lot earlier than most!