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Point being, they will still have a look and feel of an upper middle class while being magnitudes more wealthy. That's a good tactics because middle class stuf
by thriftwy 4y ago
Point being, they will still have a look and feel of an upper middle class while being magnitudes more wealthy.
That's a good tactics because middle class stuff has the best bang for the buck. Rich, status-displaying stuff delivers diminishing benefits for exponentially growing price.
- com2kid 4y agoI was just out in New England visiting some friends. In the area we were in[1], almost all the houses look the same, seriously unimposing, aggressively bland. They'd point over to a (admittedly large sqft) boring looking house and say "oh yeah, some super rich guy lives there, heir to some fortune or another." It was weird coming from the west coast where the front facade[2] of a house is itself a status symbol of sorts. [1] A generally well to do nice area with a bit of history to it. [2] And sometimes just the front, hah! Horrible vinyl siding everywhere else...