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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think all of you posting need a better class of aquaintances.  The questions (and many of the responses) are rather distasteful.  Trying too hard to appear to be 'one of them' likely has the opposite effect.

I can't imagine asking my friends and neighbors their net worth, nor having them ask me mine.  Nobody has ever asked us if we own a vacation home, either, in spite of the fact that we travel to the same location in Europe every year for the same holiday.[/quote]

NP here.  I'm not rich but we did have a significant inheritance last year.  Yes, I do downplay it, but sometimes it just comes up in conversation.  It's not that people are probing exactly it's just that it's hard to be cagey and lie about everything.  for example, when we were trying to sell one of several properties owned by my father in law (who, BTW, no-one knew was wealthy).  Or when we have stayed in some of the properties we now own.  Sure we can omit information - and we do - but for some friends you just don't want to feel like you are lying constantly.  That said, I suspect that most of them have little idea of our networth.[/quote]

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