So now you have $200,000 and you HAVE TO leave your home country and go move somewhere else (only one country, not just travel the world) for exactly one year. And yes, you can take one person with you if you wish.
Where do you go, and what do you do?
Take the money to a poor country and try to do some good?
Rent a villa in Italy and learn to cook and spend some time writing/reading/painting/taking photos/sculpting/making wine/learning the language?
Go to a large city and live well and party?
Easy. My partner and I move to Puerto Vallarta for a year. We live in the Romantic Zone and have a great time. (Before I plan it too big, are we meant to spend the entire sum during the year, or keep what we don’t spend?)
You have to spend it all - no keeping any money for your return!
(Forgot to mention that fact, sorry.)
Awesome. We’re gonna have a great year down there then. I’ll be expecting my check. 
I’d be happy to do that, having already essentially done that already for much less money. (I lived and worked in the U.S. for 12 years – but I did leave the country from time to time.) My only problem would be deciding which country to go to.
ETA: But I think I’d decide to visit the U.K. for that year: I could certainly find enough to do there.
In a heartbeat. Spend a year abroad and be paid for it. I can expand my horizons and still not lose the connection (personal and professional) I have made at home.
Live somewhere cheap and keep the rest. Somewhere in Canada, maybe, that seems like a nice place.
Easy - take a sabbatical from work for a year and rent a nice condo in Vancouver, BC.
Off to the Eje Cafetero in Colombia. I’d spend the year trying to get la familia set up with their own farm.
A week from today we leave for a week in St Martin. I’d happily extend our stay to a year. Or five.
I’d move to a flat in London, keep enough money to lead a fairly comfortable lifestyle, and donate the rest to various charities (at the top of the list would probably be Doctors Without Borders). I might consider Paris instead of London, as I’d improve my French, but I really love London.
I’d also consider moving to either Copenhagen or Stockholm, but learning the language would be hard, as I’m terrible with foreign languages. Wherever I go, I’d like a city.
I’m off to the UK. I have a sincere desire to move there someday anyway.
Sure. My career wouldn’t be hurt by taking a year off. My wife probably wouldn’t have trouble getting her old job back or finding a new one, but I’d likely have to quite my current job and find somewhere else to work, which would likely necessitate a move to another state (generally, if I get a new job, it involves a pretty big move). Our retirement plan could probably afford to be delayed one year. I’m not sure what we’d do with our dogs, though.
We’d probably spend the year just travelling the world- maybe spend a month in twelve different locations.
Hehe, that’s a nice thing about working in downtown Detroit. I could just pop over to Windsor for 12 months and actually be closer to work. 
With those parameters set, I’d have to say Russia. Despite all the nasty stuff going on there, I still would love to see the country and $200K would be enough to see a lot of it.
Spend the Summer in St Petersburg and see the museums, fly over to Vladivostok next to China then take the Trans-Siberian railway back, or Volgograd to see Motherland Calls, or over to Kalingrad to see what a weird little satellite that place is.
Do I have to use part of that 200k to pay my mortgage/utilities/dog sitting charges here while I’m gone or is that taken care of too? That’s going to have a pretty big impact on my available cash. Also this year is a particularly bad one as I’m moving in May - can I make it next year instead?
Okay, okay enough fighting the hypothetical - sorry but I’m going all greed on this one. I’ve got a “want to travel to” list that’s longer than my life and I’m going to use this opportunity to knock off a couple dozen entries. A few months of being based somewhere in Europe and traveling around, a transatlantic cruise to get back to North America, a couple weeks in Panama, couple months cruising around the caribbean and finish the entire project off with a month in Australia.
$200,000 and only one year? I’d jump on that. The military gave me less than that for 4 years.
I’d go to some place where my job skills could be used. That way I’d keep current; not have a time gap in my resume; plus pocket some extra money in the process.
Japan. There’s all kinds of strange and insane things there to spend a year doing.
Oh hell I missed the brackets. Okay I’m going to have to go with Hawaii. I’ve been trying to figure out if I really want to retire there and a year to decide would be a huge help. Also since the limitation is one country if I really hate it I can hang out in Vegas or something 
No, not if I can’t take my kids. They’re too young to leave for a year.