I can be happy without a lot of money but I could have even more interesting things to do and have more fun with a million dollars. I enjoy experiencing other cultures, I like seeing really ancient buildings and great works of art. The USA has some of it but other areas have considerably more. Reading about it in a book and watching videos is OK but I also want to go there in person, walk the land, touch the walls, eat the food, smell the air.
I went car camping in France one time for 3 weeks. It was wonderful. Camping is camping, that part was not different, but the things I saw and experienced first hand sure were. And those things have contributed to my current happiness and they expanded my abilities as an artist. I would never have gotten to go to sleep in the shadow of a crusader castle on the hill above or walked through the gate used by the knights templar. Or seen the complex items created entirely with hand tools by apprentices who submitted them to be judged worthy of becoming designated as master craftsmen. Or looked at real paintings by Da Vinci instead of just seeing printed copies or walked through the home and gardens of Monet and walked into a circular gallery room and be surrounded by his huge paintings so that you felt totally immersed in his expression of the place that brought him great happiness. I loved the constant cooing of the doves in the countryside and driving the little hedgerow lanes of Normandy and coming up upon old manor houses and chateaus. Or walking the twisted, cobbled lanes with the old half timber buildings leaning this way and that. It does take a lot more money to go out and experience things that are not close enough to hop in the car and drive an hour or a few day's time away. I don't have to be wealthy but it sure would not hurt to have more of it around so I can expand my nomadic roaming distance.