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[quote=Anonymous]I certainly don't hang out in this milieu but I did rub shoulders ever so slightly with a very wealthy clique in college. One thing you do learn is that the very rich quickly know all the other very rich kids, whether from California or Park Avenue or Texas oil money, they flock to each other.

As you can infer, many of their vacations are little more than partying with each other. Spring break trip to Colorado and they take over someone's family's ski chalet and party. Same for trips to the Caribbean. Flights to London or Paris for a birthday party was normal. Big blowout birthday bashes in exotic locations was very normal. They're called jet setters for a reason. And the pattern continues as they age. They still party as affluent middle aged people, just in different ways (less drugs!).

While there are certainly favored destinations like St. Barts, it's not just the locale, but what you do at the said locale, and that involves being with other rich people in their houses or boats or exclusive islands or estates or possibly taking over a small boutique hotel that only those in the know know. They'll even go to locations some of you would never think about, like someone's enormous (huge!) ranch in the middle of Texas for a wild weekend. The ranch may be surrounded by dull tiny towns of rednecks, but the ranch house and cabins itself will be as finely kitted out as the nicest boutique hotels and personal chefs serving food comparable to Thomas Keller. The same is true for going to your Argentinian college friend's family's ranch in Patagonia, or someone's preserve in Kenya. It's a very, incredibly, groomed lifestyle.

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