[ SECRET POST #3829 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3829 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Have you ever discovered that someone you knew was much richer or much poorer than you thought?

[(Anonymous)]

I have a friend I met in high school who's the richest person I know. Her childhood home is like the ones you see on TV with a mile-long road to get to the front door. She had a nanny when she was a kid and her parents employed various people to take care of the house and garden. She has three ponies and got a nice car for her sweet sixteen. I always thought she was exaggerating until I went to her house one day and felt completely out of place. She's a very nice person, but doesn't quite understand that I can't drop everything without warning to go to Disneyland or Vegas and thinks it's odd that I can't bring myself to buy things unless they're on sale.

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of feel sorry for kids like that. I understand wanting to give your children everything you possibly can, but letting them grow up that out of touch with the rest of the world isn't doing them any favors. Even if they're basically nice people, they're probably going to end up saying/doing really insensitive rich privilege type things because they don't know any better.

[soldatsasha]

At a certain point, there's really not a lot the parents can do to keep their kid in touch with the rest of the world. Short of shipping them off to grow up with an impoverished relative or something, I mean. Unless you've lived the life, it's not something you really CAN understand, going either direction.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think you have to go that far to make sure your kids understand that the lifestyle you live is exceptional rather than average. Like the above anon's friend's situation... you could maybe NOT give your child three ponies and a car for their 16th birthday. Just because you're rich doesn't mean you absolutely have to do that. But yes, it depends on whether or not the parents also grew up with all the privileges of the rich or not.

[sadiesockmonkey]

Yeah, the three ponies thing is driving me nuts.

I don't see why one pony wouldn't have sufficed, in that instance.

I've never known anyone who owned their own horse, I don't think, but I did know several girls who took horse riding lessons.

[soldatsasha]

I've known plenty of people who own horses or ponies that weren't rich at all. I think it just depends on where you live. And owning more than one pony/horse/cow makes sense because they're herd animals and they need companion animals with them to really be mentally healthy afaik. I think it's probably actually worse to just have one because it would get lonely.

But, having ponies at all is a little silly.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if it's bad of me, but I assume practically anyone I know around 30 or under is loaded with student debt and much poorer than they seem.

[(Anonymous)]

When I was little I had a friend who was always going to fancy places overseas on vacation, and I was so jealous of her. One day I got fed up and started ranting to my mom about how it wasn't fair and why did she get to go to all these places, it's not like she's even rich or anything! And my mom just gave me this dumbfounded look like "Uh... yes she is." And that's how I found out not all rich people live in huge mansions and ride in limos like on TV.

[(Anonymous)]

Not to a big extent.

There have been a few times when I thought a friend was rich because of some particular things and it turned out they weren't rich.

For example, I had this friend who lived in a really big Victorian house at least 3 stories tall, with front and back staircases and a tower. I assumed her family was rich, but later realized this house was in what was, at the time, a super shitty neighborhood and so they probably got it for cheap. They had a security system and a huge dog. None of my other friends lived in houses with security systems and their dogs were little cuddly things. There was a lot about the decor in this house that was outdated or tired-looking because they didn't have the money to update it yet.

Earlier, I had a friend who lived in a much smaller house in a middle-income neighborhood, but her parents seemed to give her anything she wanted: all the toys, a waterbed bunk bed, and an in-ground pool that took up basically the whole back yard (must have made the house difficult to sell - this was the Upper Midwest, not somewhere like California or Arizona where a pool is more like a necessity). Her dad never seemed to have a job, though. Her mom was a dental hygienist and I hear they make good money, but I think the degree to which they were spoiling their daughter surely would have outstripped the mother's income when you also factor in mortgage and groceries and everything. They moved away suddenly, so I don't know what became of her or their financial situation.