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[LordBucket]

Hypothetical scenario: you quit your job, liquidate all assets and pay off all debts. You sell your house and car, you cancel all your credit cards and generally tie up all loose ends. After everything is said and done you have only $100,000 in cash and a current passport. You have no children, you're unmarried, and you have no particular emotional attachment to staying in the US. You're intelligent and in good health, but you're kind of lazy and you only speak english.

You want to retire somewhere where you can live a life of ease and hedonism. Can be anywhere in the world. Immediate survival is not an issue. You can take a couple months if you want, to research and decide how best to proceed.

What do you do?

[Graknorke]

Iceland because it's awesome and cold and electricity is really cheap.

[Xantalos]

I post to watch this thread to figure out what I should do.

[Leafsnail]

Buy a blimp and become a Sky Pirate.

e: that's actually my solution to most problems, though.

[Bdthemag]

I'll buy a decent sized house in the city, hire a financial adviser to give me advice on how best to invest my money, then invest half of it. With the rest of the money, I'd buy my mother a new car and house and then spend the rest on the hobbies and activities I've always been too poor to afford.

[Loud Whispers]

The independent Antartic republic begins.

First, we will need a boat. A BIG BOAT. This will be our means of getting there, and our future home.

Then, we shall farm. In the ice? No.

We melt the Antartic ice sheets, flooding every low-lying major nation in the world, likely dooming all the coastal and island lands.

Then, we build.

Might cost more than 100k though.

[Dorf_Lundgren]

Frankly, I'd want a damn sight more than 100k. In the greater scheme of things US$100k isn't a great deal of of money to see me to the end of my days, not in a first world country. I couldn't even buy my flat in London for $100k. Perhaps if I moved to south east Asia, but I'd still have to work...and working isn't the hedonistic lifestyle I'd be after.
John

[ggamer]

buy a small house on the gulf of mexico, somewhere far away from the tourist towns. Believe me, nothing could beat that.

[mainiac]

If I had 100k I'd keep working.

[Pnx]

For most of the developed world 100k is honestly rather a small amount to live out the rest of your life on.

I mean, seriously, I'm 22 years old, even if I only live another 40 years, that's only $2,500 per year. I mean even just food would quickly eat up pretty much all of that budget.

[GlyphGryph]

Go to New Zealand. Get a teaching degree. Work as a teacher in Auckland or somewhere on South Island.

[alway]

If I had 100k I'd keep working.

This. You've got 4 years of minimum-wage income. So you've got about 1 year of living well, 3 years of living comfortably, or 4 years of worrying about making the money last.

[Jopax]

Go to New Zealand or somesuch equally pleasant place (Canary islands come to mind). Something with decent amounts of green and atleast a nice amount of rural or undeveloped land. Then build/buy myself a farmhouse of some sort and invest the money into getting a running estate. Animals, plants, some sort of generator, that sort of stuff.

Get a nice little independent place for myself and just disconnect from the outside world, because seriously, fuck the outside world.

[kaenneth]

New Zealand has immigration quotas, last I looked (some years ago) you needed 26 points; $1,000,000 in investment capital would get you 1 point... if I recall correctly, it's been a while.

Plus, the US doesn't like large amounts of cash to leave the country.

But anyway, If I won the lottery, I'd have a summer house in New Zealand, and a summer house in British Columbia.

[GlyphGryph]

I'm a software developer with an interest in education. I actually hit quite a few of their point goals, and with 100k I could hit quite a few more, like getting a grad degree there. At the very least I've got a good chance of getting residency, though I'd like to head for citizenship. And education visas are easy to come by, part of why I'd go to school for teaching there. Saving up 100k is actually essentially the goal right now.

Anyways, it's actually 100 points.