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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL - Hong Kong and Singapore are 100x safer (by any metric) than any place in the US!

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a problem I have encountered yet, but anecdotally, it seems like everyone thinks they are about 20% more money from being set.  But then you get the 20% more, and there is lifestyle creep, and you realize if you had just another 20% you could not worry about X...and it continues.

It actually brings me comfort to think about the fact that most of the rich people who (to me) seem to have it made are still trying to get more money to keep up with the richer Joneses.[/quote]

Well, if they think they need 20% more, they’re wrong. We’ll finally clear $200,000 this year and we have enough. My friend just got out of homelessness, and she’s really opened my eyes. We don’t need vacations, more than ten sets of clothes, or new cars. Befriending a homeless person has been the best thing to happen to our finances, ever. [/quote]
It's interesting how parochial a lot of folks in the DC area are.  There are people who travel all over the world while working at State, USAID, the intelligence agencies, armed forces and there are lawyers that mainly have local clients or at the large city hubs in this country.  You can talk to the homeless here but seeing the slums in Africa, India, Indonesia and really unstable, dangerous places in Central America and Haiti gives you a perspective of the not just the wealth, but also the safety and security that we all enjoy and take for granted.  Would I want to be a millionaire in Hong Kong or Singapore?  It wouldn't be a bad life but the risk of me or a family member being kidnapped would keep me awake at night and would lead me to have my family stay stateside while I work overseas.

You can live in a place that is poorer, less stable and safe and still be driven to earn your potential no matter where you live.  I think one of the great things about our country is how few obstacles there are to working to your full earning potential, relatively speaking.  Try that and see the headwinds in places like central Africa.[/quote][/quote]
The topic was where it is more likely to be kidnapped as a rich person.  I never felt afraid in McLean or Beverly Hills.  In HK, I certainly did.  But if you want to discuss general crime, go on ahead.  I'm just not that interested.[/quote]

DP.  So, as a rich person, you are only afraid of being kidnapped for ransom?  Not dying by gunshot while at a party or a July 4th gathering or attending a concert (which I suppose you don't think rich people attend)?  :lol:  :lol:   Gun violence is not 'general crime' by the way.. [b]It's a systemic issue in the US that does not care much about how much money you have[/b].[/quote]

Gun violence drastically affects the poor in the US at a much, much higher rate than middle class or higher.  I'm in strong favor of gun legislation and am horrified by the increasing threats of gun violence in the US, but the mass/random shootings at public places are a tiny, tiny drop in the bucket compared to overall gun violence in the US.  [/quote]

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