Living The Dream: Where Would You Call Home If You Won Big?

The dreams of becoming a billionaire are in the air once more. The Powerball jackpot, is at $865,000,000 and the Mega Millions is over 1.1 billion dollars for the jackpot. The odds of winning the Mega Millions is over 1 in 302,000,000 and the odds of winning the Powerball is 1 in 292,000,000.

Montana Millionaire is Expanding Again This Year

I have no illusions that I will be winning any kind of jackpot any time soon. The closest I will probably ever get was when I was lucky enough to be an instant winner during the last Montana Millionaire game. This year the Montana Lottery is again going to expand the Montana Millionaire game. They are adding in one more million dollar jackpot, for a total of four. This year they will be selling 500,000 tickets.

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When people come into this kind of money, one of the first questions they get asked, is "what are you going to buy?". That is a pretty standard question. For me, a more interesting question is "where are you going to live?". Would the thought of having a billion dollars make you want to leave Montana?

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We asked our listeners on Facebook where they would live if they won a billion dollars. It may not come as a surprise, a majority of the people who answered would like to stay in Montana. Some who live out of state, dream of coming back to Montana. Some wouldn't tell us where they would live.

There were, of course, a lot of jokes about the cost of living in places like Bozeman and Missoula. One person said they would move "back home with their mom". Montana is already home to at least one billionaire, Dennis Washington. It is fun to dream about big fortunes, remember if you are going to play the lottery, please play responsibly. For the record if I ever won a jackpot, I would stay in Montana too.