What Would You Buy With $1 Million?

If you were given a no obligation $1 million check right now, how would you spend it? That’s the question Mirador Wealth asked 5,000 people across the United States in a study last year.

However, the study had a twist. Mirador’s analysts wanted to find out if the state in which respondents lived had an influence on their spending decisions. So, the respondents to the survey, of which there were roughly 100 in each state, weren’t allowed to choose the obvious choices of a house, car, and debt repayment. Not only are these answers a bit too obvious but if included they would have dominated the map, and they wouldn’t be much the way of diversity between state spending...