With a million dollars you would be able to afford a better circuit than the very best cable and/or DSL.

(my T1-level frame relay connection is $850/month on a two year contract for example)

I had actually been told by one Verizon drone that I'd qualify for 1.5, but then was eventually told that I'd have to be within 12,000 feet of the CO, and I was fifteen-thou-and-change or something like that. My throughput has been excellent for 768k, at least.

Here are my results from DSL reports:

155 Grandview Rd
Delaware, Springfield
PA 19064
Phone: 610-338-XXXX

about 14870 feet

Wire center (CO)
SPFDPASF

Technical limit for DSL is about 20k iirc.

Call up Speakeasy, they're by far the fastest in giving you a meaningful response.

Oh and Verizon has been sucking recently I left them because they're confused about services they offer. I had SDSL at one point and when I called them up regarding an upgrade they didn't believe me. I wanted to upgrade but they said I could only downgrade..so I left.

Well. with just the million, I'd pay off the house, invest the rest and write gpl code and teach computer science the rest of my days.

But with really big bucks, I'd buy homes in Phoenix, Seattle, rural new england, and a time share in Colorado.

I'd spend summers in Seattle, fall in new england, and winters in Phoenix- perfect weather and scenery all year long.

Oh and the timeshare in Colorado is for snowy christmases.

If you want perfect weather and scenery all year long...just buy a house in Sydney Australia. It's late spring all year round.

Really? I'll have to take the family for a visit one of these days.

Don't think I'd move that far though. I'd miss family and friends too much.

So you say now...but with perfect weather, the beach 5 minutes away, cheap as hell tropical fruit and the freindly population...I don't think you'll have time to miss them.

http://www.voyeurmagic.com.au/panorama.htm

This was a 15 minute walk from where I lived. I didn't miss much of anything.

You forgot:
(10) Give $10,000 to FNF

You know..10 is better than 9...like the 10 commandments thing. (Always bugged me..10? Why 10? Why not 7? Does God have a fondness for round numbers? If God was British would it be 12 commandments?)

Oh man, you lived near THAT?? Ohmygod, I'd never leave the general vicinity! :D

Yeah I miss it.

But wasn't really my choice to leave. Life sucks like that. I figure that when I save up enough money as a corporate slave in the US I'll retire to Australia. I'll buy a house, a convertable, rollerblades and a surf board. That will be all I'll need till the day I die.

Oh and it's way better if you take a 1 hour drive somewhere father from the city. You can find a beach maybe 1/10th the size but with only about 5 people there...or completley abandoned bays...

Also, to me one of the hardest things to get used to in Australia was that parrots flew all over the place like they were pigeons..

Yeah but...
 

....noone will stop if you run your car into a tree.

Re: Yeah but...
 

Having already run a car into a tree I know that I can take car of it myself so it's not an issue.

Alright it was a stump and I went OVER it and gutted the car..but thats not the point.

LOL

I trashed my car, hit a stump.

You hit a what?!?!

Sigh...STUMP. Skidded out at the end of an 'S' turn, my rear didn't straighten out and I couldn't complete the turn..couldn't stop, could only go straight...it was down hill.

So I rammed the stump, the car went over it and sideways.

It tore the radiator, smashed the oilpan, cracked the axle and took some bits out of the transmission box.

It was late firday night on a suburb road. I was doing proably 40 on that turn, it's a turn I take all the time. Still not 100% sure of 'why' my rear started to skid..

1992 Nissan Maxima SE dead. At the time it was only worth about 2.5k so I never bothered to do anything with the insurance about it.
Cops gave me a $100 ticket for "failing to maintain a safe speed" whatever that means...