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I have no interest in whether others are well to do. That's why I'm here reading about it. It's good to know who the well to doers are so I can be uninterested in them.
If some are in debt up to their ears and living paycheck to paycheck, but they have their multi 6 figure income to service all that debt, I'd say they're still well off.
I'd say to notice the kind of car they drive. That might be a clue. Or if they talk about traveling a lot, you can bet they are doing ok. Where they live and what kinds of clubs they belong to, i.e., country club, tennis club, swim club, golf club....oops! ''Fore'' give me for that last...LOL
I'd say to notice the kind of car they drive. That might be a clue. Or if they talk about traveling a lot, you can bet they are doing ok. Where they live and what kinds of clubs they belong to, i.e., country club, tennis club, swim club, golf club....oops! ''Fore'' give me for that last...LOL
I'd say the condition of a car, regardless of age, is what matters. A thirty year old car that's sparkling clean is a far stronger indication than a relatively new car that looks as if it's never been washed.
Money to travel several times a year and eat out a lot at "nice" restaurants.
We all can have nice houses, cars and clothes, some solid stock/investments" -yet its these two things that tell me the couple is well fixed, financially, because they are the extra expenses that separate the herd.
We can keep up with the house, car and clothes but we have to cut back on the travel and nice restaurants to save money.
What tells you that a couple you meet or know is doing very well?
The retiree that makes money in retirement is by far the one that is better " off " not the one who spends money like there's no tomorrow ......
There is to some degree cultural snobbery in some circles, like who's been to whose gallery opening and lots of armchair "culturalists" who go to every event, some to be seen more than to be enlightened.
What you're saying here reminds me so much of my (late) father, he was exactly like that, although he was a simple paparazzi (his job was taking pictures of "glitterati"to be published in glossy magazines), he liked to be seen in the right places with the right (meaning : moneyed/connected) people. He was actually the quintessential snob (and didn't it like one bit that I saw through his game and had no envy to follow suit to his lifestyle). However he took good care to have a cultural glossand late at night memorized extracts from the Reader's Digest. I've found a letter he wrote to a Sarah Lawrence student he was mad in love with (the girl didn't stay long with him, she was from a wealthy family and he actually could have been his father, she was exactly my age), boasting to have been seated at the Paris Opera 10 rows behind the then French President (the girl must have laughed herself off, so pathetic).
After 34 pages has this thread managed to identify what constitutes being well to do is with a majority of the participants in agreement?
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