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The wife and I spent one night with her cousin in St. Tropez.  Her husband was some big shot and they had an impressive place very near town, pool, a personal chef, the works.  Her cousin is about my age and a real looker even so, used to be a model I'm told and believe it.  Anyway, the then husband (now divorced) wanted to take to some bar on the waterfront to "see and be seen".  The "boats" docked there were impressive, I think they were nearly all 60 footers, and even more impressive were the yachts out in the bay that were too large to be docked.

I guess if I had a zillion dollars I'd be on one of them in the Med with crew etc.  Maybe my country of residence would be Monaco.  The Med is free of pirates and bad storms, it's sort of like a large Great Lake with salt.  Arthur Blank just bought one for $280 MILLION, I don't think he has it on Lake Lanier.

I know one lady pretty well who has that kind of money and she has problems and issues in her life as well.  

If you had $200 mil after taxes, you could scrape by, in part because you wouldn't need any income.

My definition of wealthy is a person who does not need any income.

If you have $200 million after tax, you are obviously in good shape but can't yet hang with the whales.

Put it all into CA municipals and get 2% AT, that's $4 mil a year in cash.  You would need to spend say $50 mil on your estate and whatnot, so perhaps only $3 mil in pocket money a year.

You could drag another $5 mil a year from capital.

@847badgerfan getting from midway to downtown... It's the orange line safe or dicey?

It's been over a year since I lived there but I've taken the Orange line to/from Midway many times and never had any problems. The neighborhoods it goes through aren't nice, but they're not dangerous, either, from what I could tell. It's also somewhat faster to get to the Loop from there compared to OHare, not to mention taking Southwest and avoiding much more likely delays* makes it worth it.

*For the job I ended up taking there originally, I went there to interview and had to go through OHare, and my return trip got delayed from that evening to the following morning. Sleeping at the gate was pretty annoying.

The red line is the one to worry about (South of the Loop), to be honest. Things like this

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-police-questioning-man-in-red-line-stabbing-20190716-eo25b3joxfbyxjdzwaw3k2stc4-story.html

Happen pretty frequently on this line.

small potatoes

Tesla is now also scaling up their battery division (which I've argued before is probably their best long-term strategy as the traditional automakers get into the EV market), through building their largest and most cost-effective utility scale systems. They're calling them megapacks. Most new utility scale solar systems now include integrated battery (or some other form of energy storage) systems, because that's still cheaper than building a new gas plant in many areas now.

Apparently there's also a bipartisan bill in Congress to invest in transportation infrastructure including EV charging stations, along with legislation for a national energy efficiency standard, but I'm skeptical of that coming about before 2021, of course.

I don't know that much about Tesla's actual in-house battery capability. I thought the bulk of the battery production [at least for the cars] was Panasonic, although Tesla adds a lot of value farther up at the pack and beyond levels... I thought the delays on Powerwalls were largely due to Panasonic not being able to scale batteries as quickly as Tesla wanted them.

And you know Congress. They'll wait until Tesla and the other automakers build out a charging infrastructure that gets 85% of the way there, then throw some federal money at it, and claim credit for the whole thing. Typical.