My daughter is spending more than this on her birthdays.
You can definitely get a decent jet in that budget, there's a popular tech youtuber who recently bought one for considerably less. I'm pretty sure you could get like 6 houses in mountain view and still have money left over for a jet.
We clearly have differing opinions on what constitutes a decent jet. Are you buying your jets used??
Check out the Cirrus Vision. About $3 million. Very decent jet. Seven people, easy to fly, nifty safety features.
The Vision is tiny. It doesn’t even have a bedroom. Not even a single bathroom.
That is an "its technically a jet" jet, not a jet that anyone would picture in their mind if you told them "I own a private jet".
I think if you take a selfie with your phone at just the right angle and don't show your forked tail, you might pull it off. It's a tried and true internet technique.
You can easily do that at airshows as well.
It's not just the acquisition costs, it's the employee payroll--two pilots, one flight attendant, engine overhauls every six months, other maintenance. See the Amalfi Jets video on costs.
That could buy like, 30 houses here in Atlanta! Wow I have it good.
Probably about ~35-40 apartments in Barcelona. Going out to Spanish rural areas, you could probably buy ~4-6 abandoned villages with that, you'll get multiple houses, municipal buildings and whatever administrative stuff they had too.
But then you'd have to keep stealing more gold bars for the upkeep, and who has time for that?