What would you do if you had almost everything? What would you do?
What would you do in my situation? Would you do something totally different? Do you have any brilliant ideas? Where would you create your community? What country? How would you keep costs down? Who would you bring? What theme would it be? Everyone has been asked, "If money was no object, what would you do?" Any websites or authors you recommend? anything?
Purpose for writing this post: Get some ideas about what to do if you were in my shoes. Maybe you had a cool idea. Fill in any of the blanks.
Here is the data set:
I have a net worth of greater than $5M most of which is very illiquid and would be taxed at 25% to sell it, so I am hesitant to ever sell it. Liquid Net worth is $200k. Annual aftertax cash-flow is $100k per year (because everything gets constantly reinvested). I am pushing 40 years old (I look 30) and feel 60. I am preferential towards blondes with blue eyes and could not see myself anyone else for a long-term relationship. My favorite places are Sweden, Finland, Ukraine, and Southern California for women. I am in constant pain and therefore cannot live in a cold climate...It's got to be an active lifestyle. I am fluent in Spanish and I have a huge undeveloped seaside plot of land along the ocean in tropical Latin America. I have had a good life as an international player...But I am at a stage in my life where I need to change it up. I am not interested so much in the travelling to get laid thing anymore--I want to work on my farm and build something and have the girls come to me. I love living abroad and like a king. Essentially, I want the polyamorous lifestyle in Latin America.
What would you do in my situation? Would you do something totally different? Do you have any brilliant ideas? Where would you create your community? What country? How would you keep costs down? Who would you bring? What theme would it be? Everyone has been asked, "If money was no object, what would you do?"
Here is how I currently answer the question:
I am going to build a small boutique resort in Latin America. There will be a volunteer program for those "people" (read: women) that cannot afford to stay there. I will heavily promote it in the above countries and mostly by referral. I live in a rural area, but there are still a lot of tourists. I am into polyamory, so I will probably hit that community in America. I am going to build lots of pools on my mountain. I have already invested pretty heavily into orchards. I want the resort community to be very green and sustainable in terms of living off the land. The resort will have lots of hidden alcoves and nice pools, but you can also adventure on the land or go surfing. We will always bring in some local latin girls to help and they will like to party and get naked and live in paradise and will always be preferential with bisexual girls. I am going back to school to study construction. I want to build this stuff under my own supervision.
I do want to have a place in Europe. Since I hate the cold and darkness, it doesn't make sense to buy in Northern Europe. But, perhaps Spain or Greece. The northern Europeans like Spain and Greece. Maybe, it's better to rent.
Maybe after a few years of living polyamorously, I will marry the European girl for the EU passport if it all legally checks out. The last thing I want is an expensive divorce. Or I would marry a rich girl and if we got a divorce, we would not be arguing over money.
I guess the biggest problems of all this are the following:
1. Finding a girl who is ok with polyamory is tough. I plan on looking for a bisexual girl...ideally Swedish or some rich girl from America. I have only been in open relationships for the last few years and I have read extensively on this.
2. To bankroll a nice small resort, it might get expensive and be very complicated. So I may want to go slowly. It might cost me about $300k per villa, $200k for the hostel volunteer area, $200k for the pool area and open area and large restaurant style kitchen....Another $50k for 2 small pools. I will need to be cost conscious. I want to build 1 villa every 1-2 years. I want to build out everything very slow. I don't want to spend that much. I am going to have to do some serious cost cutting. That is why I am going to study construction the next couple years and try to general contract everything, hire cheap unskilled latin labor and maybe even have volunteers help me. If you are in the volunteer program then you sleep in hostel accomodation, get free food, transportation and learn cool shit. But, you have to work 4-6 hours a day building things or collecting/preparing food on the farm.
3. I have to market it to a very small niche. I know a few poly communities in the USA, but other than that, I am totally at a loss. The resort is going to be themed. I like the idea of sexy uniforms, costume parties or a "Burningman" styled community that builds and works on art in some workshops I want to build. The Euro-girls are so far away, but I would have to market directly to them.
4. Living expenses are high in Latin America now. People coming to live in Latin America have it much worse financially than in South East Asia like indonesia (Bali for example), Cambodia and Thailand. It might be more economical to create "The Beach" in Thailand or Cambodia. Transportation, Construction and Labor costs are high in Latin America. Maybe I should pack it up and move to SE Asia. The problem that I have found in SE Asia are political and legal risks. For example, in Thailand, you need to have business partners that are Thai if you buy land. There is a lot of corruption and you can be cheated. The same is true with some places in Latin America particularly with squatting. One solution is to lease. I already have $300k invested in land and infrastructure in Latin America. Perhaps I could have two places--one in SE Asia and one Latin America.
5. I want an independant girl. I don't want someone who is relying on me for everything.... she has to have her own thing going one. Maybe she has a degree in tourism management or perhaps she has a phd in some random field of alternative medicine or she is a yoga instructor. I don't want someone who is clinging onto me, or thinks she is going to get a piece of the asset later for superficial support.
6. Lacking purpose. This is a current problem for me right now. I want to live my best possible life. When I on my farm building stuff in the sun, I feel amazing...I have no pain or existential angst. I have to be living my life to the fullest to feel good.
