Honestly, the truly rich people don’t flaunt their money in the open. When people who were poor suddenly become rich, they of course want everyone to know they have that money now. The truly rich ones never try to hawk their affluent in the open, only few hints from them will make you realize they quite got the dough.
What is the most unusual way you found out someone close to you was quite wealthy?
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I was in university the, I was friends with a student who was from Asia. His older brother had been at the same university and had done very well. But my friend spent more time in the pub and at the snooker table than in lecture halls.
Occasionally he would say he was short of funds and would I lend him some money, which I did. He repaid me in a haphazard way but I figured he was keeping count. I just considered that he and his family were not wealthy and his family were doing their best to support him as an overseas student. A few years after we finished university I had a stopover in his city, gave him a call m, suggested we catchup, and he agreed. But he was not happy— why was I staying at a hotel and not at his family’s place. I said I didn’t want to have them put up witha stranger. He said a car will pick me up and hung up. A car with two rather burly men came to the hotel, told me to pack my bags and to go with them. They took me to a tower of apartments, took me to the top floor and to a suite where a butler was waiting. My friend arrived shortly after. He was upset saying that I had caused him to lose face. He owned the tower of apartments and put me in the penthouse. Turns out his father had been giving him and his brother a tower of apartments for their birthdays and now they had several of these blocks of apartments in the city.
His father came to see me and told me that I had thwarted his plans to have his son on starvation rations at university in the hope that his son would have no money to do anything but study.
Finding out more, I found that they were a very wealthy family. Pleased to say that we are still good friends over many years.
There was a time a friend of mine from college reached out to me that he wanted to relocate to my city; an expensive and bustling city. Nothing is cheap, housing is on a very high level. He told me the area he wanted, an area mostly dominated by the privileged. I told him I could help him talk to few agents, I didn’t bother to ask what kind of apartment because I just did the math he wouldn’t take more than a little apartment as he was the only one and I didn’t think he could have so much money to take up a large apartment. Few weeks later, he reached out that he already got a place in the heart of the city. I was happy for him and was really looking forward to seeing his new apartment. When I finally had the chance to visit him, I was awed! My jaws dropped! I never imagined him taking up such a big place, honestly. His whole apartment screamed MONEY. What was there not to love? Look at me trying to help him secure a little space. I’ve always known he was comfortable, money-wise but I never knew he was VERY comfortable and RICH please. Lol.