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[quote=Anonymous]Here are things that indicate to me that someone has a lot of money:

- Any reference to a vacation home, whether theirs or belonging to their parents (we hear a lot of "oh we're going to my parents' lake house in August" in our neighborhood, which immediately makes me assume that they got a large sum of money for their down payment from their parents and also probably didn't pay for their own wedding).

- Private school. Even people who claim the are "sacrificing" for private school are usually rich by my standards, they just aren't rich by private school standards. I've never actually met someone whose child is on full FA for private school. I know they exist, I just don't meet them in my decidedly middle class life.

Even though I'm definitely middle class (HHI 130k for family of 3 in DC), people assume we're rich pretty often. Here are the things people base that on:

- I am thin. I just happen to be genetically predisposed for it, I'm not dieting or working at it, but people definitely associate it with wealth.

- I am from a part of the country that people on the East Coast associate with rich people. I didn't grow up rich and my family mostly worked for the rich people there. But most people here have only ever been there on vacation and when they hear I'm from there, they assume I come from money.

- We have traveled quite a bit. What people don't know is that most of our travel was suuuuuuper cheap. Not cheap like "I used points for this flight/hotel!" but cheap like we found $200 flights to London that required us to fly through Iceland and took 20 hours each way, and then stayed in a hostel. But we'll then splurge on one night in a decent hotel and one meal at a Michelin starred restaurant. People don't realize that our trip to London and the Lake District cost a small fraction of their trip to the Outer Banks, and most of the people we know would not be able to travel the way we do because they don't want to be uncomfortable. But when people talk about global travel, we have often been to the places they are talking about and people assume that means we have $$$.

So it's easy to get it wrong and I'm sure I'm wrong about some of the people I assumed to be rich based on their vacation homes and private schools. Most of them I'm right about but some of them I'm probably at least a little bit wrong.[/quote]

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