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Are you open with your extended family about how much you make and your net worth? Anyone from parents, siblings, nieces nephews, etc. Heck even close friends.
Salary of $40,000 or $400,000. Or net worth of $10,000 or 10 million. My siblings know we can retire, but that's it. I know some people who are open and some that aren't.
You can Google and find some sites that will tell if a person's net is over a million.
So what anyone may think is very private in reality is not.
I think they use property values as an assumption.
I have never asked anyone what their income/net worth is and no one has ever volunteered that information. Nor have we ever been asked. Not by friends, not by family--except for my two daughters who had to know our income in order to fill out the FAFSA form for university applications.
I haven't shared that on this board or elsewhere online, either.
I will say however that we must be pretty good at living under our means because a dear friend whose children got Pell grants suggested that our kids apply as well. I had to tell her they would not qualify.
My older brother asked me once. I told him. He never asked again.
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