Let this serve as a warning to would-be lottery winners. The dream home you imagine may not be so dreamy after all.
‘Selling new mansion: bigger not better for jackpot winners’
A family that won an £8.5 million ($14.7 million) lottery jackpot now want to downsize from their dream home, complaining there are too many pitfalls to mansion living. [...]
Mr Chester said having the dream house was not all he hoped it would be.
“You do the lottery thing of having a massive house, but you don’t think about the stress that comes with it,” he told the Mail.
“You don’t realise how expensive running it can be, and there are rooms we never use.”
Our dream home win in 2004 was a positive experience, because it helped us say goodbye to a problem area and enjoy a new lifestyle for a while. But we always knew we wouldn’t be staying in that dream home forever. Sometimes what people think will make them happy really doesn’t.
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