Some people try hard to make it seem like they are rich. They wear flashy clothes, post pictures of fancy things on social media, and live a life that isn’t real. But how do truly wealthy people really live? We looked into this and found different stories — some about being greedy, others about being honest, as well as tales of loneliness, innocence, and even some wild choices.
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A girlfriend worked as a nanny for a wealthy investment banker and I could sometimes stay over. Nice house with a garden in a posh area, a small manor in France, a flat in NYC, art on the walls, but the guy wore torn underwear and added water in his shampoo like a miser while buying antiques at auctions. His kids had the latest game console but when my girlfriend asked what they usually had for dinner all they knew was instant noodles and crisps, and McDonald’s on weekend.
I saw his 10-year-old kid pestering him while he was on the phone and when he finally asked the kid “Yes! What do you want?”, the kid replied, “If you give me £20 I leave you alone”. The father went back to his conversation but pulled a £20 note out of his wallet and gave it to his kid without looking at him. That resumed perfectly the whole relationship he had with his kids. © visualthings / Reddit
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I lived with a girl in college who was Crazy Rich Asian rich. She moved in for the company, otherwise her parents were just gonna buy her a house. She always wore this mini bag style purse when we were going out, and it just looked like a small plain black bag to me.
I asked to borrow it for a concert one weekend because they had a super strict bag policy that none of my other bags met. She was like, “Oh sure, no problem.” I loved it and ended up looking it up to buy one for myself, and found out it was more than a year’s salary. And she let me take it to a music festival without a second thought. © chubbybunn89 / Reddit
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My sister is a flight captain for an insurance company, meaning she flies their private jets. She was sending me her old crib for my first baby and had it packed on one of the jets that was making a trip to Teterboro Airport. I went to pick it up; everyone at the airport was super nice and accommodating and directed me to the complimentary refreshments.