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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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. [/quote] I'm the PP who posted about her sister's FIL, and this much better captures what I was trying to convey. Talking about "where" simply doesn't begin to capture how the uber-wealthy vacation...[/quote] Super accurate for inherited wealth. Everyone knows everyone else and they know how to spot each other.... they also aren't into sightseeing anywhere - they would never go to 3 cities in Italy in 10 days - unless they had parties or events to go to in each city. that's not the way they travel. Agree on taking over other families' homes - none of these homes are EVER rented out...they just sit empty fully staffed until someone stops by. Summer is Mediterranean homes/on the water. Winter is ski (Europe or out west) Bday parties in amazing locales (Punta Mita private villa; Mustique, Antigua (near Tory Burch home), Panama (near Aerin Lauder's home), Cartagena (Lauren Santo Domingo) etc... Move btw home in NYC, Hamptons, Palm Beach, Nantucket, Aspen and Mexico/Caribbean/So America [/quote] Agree with all of the above. I recently had the pleasure of traveling with some people from this set. The private ranch that this friend group was usually invited to was full (bigger than usual group), and a B list of people were forced to stay in hotels. Oh my God, the complaining. They were so so so mortally offended to be roughing it in a four star hotel. I was really astonished by the whole experience, having naively thought up until this trip that rich people stay in high end hotels. Wrong, wrong, wrong.[/quote] absolutely agree...no hotels... private staffed villas. chefs. service. ironed sheets required. but no hotels which are considered pedestrian.[/quote]
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