What are your hobbies? Do you have any favorite charities? My own personal dream would be to set up a family foundation and spend my time researching what I would like to allocate funds to. You can even gift individuals with a family foundation so you could be a secret Santa all year around.

Anonymous wrote:I doubt we are in the same tax bracket but our income has gone from from “a lot” to “2x a lot” in the past 5 years and I find it pretty disorienting. What is expensive? What is appropriate? What is a rip off? I sometimes see celebrity real estate listings and think “wow that’s all?” And actually this isn’t pleasant. It freaks me out. Like I said, it’s disorienting.

I’m sure we’re lower than all of you but we recently went from $200k to $400k in a relatively short period (without changing our housing expenses or any desire to) and I’m having the bolded feelings as well.

Anonymous wrote:Spend some of that money on a therapist and stop your self pitying navel gazing. Some people have real problems.

Good luck with a therapist. As soon as OP hints as to the size of their wealth, the therapist will tune them out.

Anonymous wrote:Well, we are quite wealthy--probabaly more than you OP, and I have no experience like you describe, so I do believe you are a troll.

How much do you make/ is your net worth?

Spend some of that money on a therapist and stop your self pitying navel gazing. Some people have real problems.

Well, we are quite wealthy--probabaly more than you OP, and I have no experience like you describe, so I do believe you are a troll.

Why can’t you park most of it in a managed fund and forgot you have it?

Join a country club so you have like minded friends to vacation and shop with?

Move into better social circles. Then its not awkward.

Give it away.

I doubt we are in the same tax bracket but our income has gone from from “a lot” to “2x a lot” in the past 5 years and I find it pretty disorienting. What is expensive? What is appropriate? What is a rip off? I sometimes see celebrity real estate listings and think “wow that’s all?” And actually this isn’t pleasant. It freaks me out. Like I said, it’s disorienting.

I know many people who are intergenerationally wealthy and they don't have these issues. What you are saying makes no sense. Your social anxiety has nothing to do with how much money you make.

So no colleagues or relatives making in the same range?

Oh please. Do you have something pathological going on.

And as a result there is literally no one to speak to about it. It’s not a financial problem (obviously), but it’s lonely and awkward. I’m sure this post will draw a bunch of “humblebrag” (or maybe outright brag) or violin complaints and probably a number of posters calling me a troll (that is what they always do to really high dollar posters). And then there will be a bunch of people suggesting that I speak to a financial advisor or attorney experienced with very high net worth and income without realizing that doing so is still awkward and unrelatable (sort of like a paid friend). It’s even worse if you are younger. Still at the moment it would be nice to know that there are others who experience the same and I’m not alone.