{"id":19544,"date":"2012-03-30T15:33:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T22:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=19544"},"modified":"2012-03-30T15:34:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T22:34:37","slug":"you-win-the-mega-millions-what-house-do-you-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/30\/you-win-the-mega-millions-what-house-do-you-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"You win the Mega Millions. What house do you buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s have a little fun on a Friday afternoon.  Let&#8217;s say you play <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2017870526_apusmegamillionslongodds.html\" title=\"Americans bet nearly $1.5B to win record jackpot\">the big Mega Millions lottery<\/a> everyone won&#8217;t stop talking about, and <a href=\"http:\/\/cockeyed.com\/citizen\/poker\/lottery_simulator100.php\" title=\"Cockeyed: Incredibly Depressing Mega Millions Lottery Simulator!\">against all odds<\/a>, you&#8217;re the sole winner tonight.<\/p>\n<p>What house (or houses) currently on the market would you buy?  It doesn&#8217;t have to be in the Seattle area, if you&#8217;re only here because you can&#8217;t afford to live where you <em>really<\/em> want.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few places I would seriously consider&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/CO\/Conifer\/9950-S-Warhawk-Rd-80433\/home\/34641120\" title=\"9950 S WARHAWK Rd Conifer, CO 80433\">9950 S Warhawk Rd Conifer, CO<\/a> &#8211; $795k<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: -10px auto 0; width: 600px; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/CO\/Conifer\/9950-S-Warhawk-Rd-80433\/home\/34641120\" title=\"9950 S WARHAWK Rd Conifer, CO 80433\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/9950-S-Warhawk-Rd-Conifer-CO-600x398.jpg\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"9950 S Warhawk Rd Conifer, CO - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"9950 S Warhawk Rd Conifer, CO\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unique construction, amazing view, nearly 40 acres, seclusion, and yet less than an hour&#8217;s drive to downtown Denver.  Nice.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/WA\/Everett\/816-35th-St-98201\/home\/2734344\" title=\"816 35 St Everett, WA 98201\">816 35 St Everett, WA<\/a> &#8211; $1.7 million<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: -10px auto 0; width: 600px; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/WA\/Everett\/816-35th-St-98201\/home\/2734344\" title=\"816 35 St Everett, WA 98201\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/816-35th-St-Everett-WA-600x400.jpg\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"816 35 St Everett, WA - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"816 35 St Everett, WA\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like my neighborhood, and this place is just up the hill.  A nicely updated well-kept 1920s home sits on over an acre, plus it has views.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/WA\/Anacortes\/XXX-Allan-Is-98221\/home\/17502112\" title=\"Allan Island Anacortes, WA\">Allan Island, WA<\/a> &#8211; $13.5 million<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin: -10px auto 0; width: 600px; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/WA\/Anacortes\/XXX-Allan-Is-98221\/home\/17502112\" title=\"Allan Island Anacortes, WA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Allen-Island-Bing-Maps-600x399.png\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"Allan Island Anacortes, WA - Click to enlarge\" alt=\"Allan Island Anacortes, WA\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because seriously, who wouldn&#8217;t want to buy an entire frikkin&#8217; island.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s just me.  I&#8217;d be curious to see the kinds of homes my readers would buy if they suddenly came into a few hundred million dollars&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s have a little fun on a Friday afternoon. Let&#8217;s say you play the big Mega Millions lottery everyone won&#8217;t stop talking about, and against all odds, you&#8217;re the sole winner tonight. What house (or houses) currently on the market would you buy? It doesn&#8217;t have to be in the Seattle area, if you&#8217;re only&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[206],"tags":[314,309],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-19544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-luxury","tag-million-dollar-homes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>You win the Mega Millions. 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