Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Most people I know have iPhones. If you drop an iPhone, it will break.

Why would you ever buy a phone that is so fragile that it will break if dropped?

You sound like an idiot. Any phone dropped on concrete will break.

I actually drop my iPhone all the time without a case and it’s fine.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- a quiet confidence and sense of ease. I can’t explain it. They’re relaxed looking.
- nice demeanor and friendly and approachable.
- thin and healthy looking. Glossy hair, clear healthy skin, straight healthy gums and teeth.
- no obvious signs of striving. Not decked in designer clothes or jewelry.
- surprisingly thrifty. Use the library instead of buying every new best seller. Buy children’s clothes on eBay as opposed to boutique stores.
- home decorated sparsely but tastefully with antiques and nice carpets.
- biggest expenses are home in a nice zip code + private school

This is the stupidest list I've ever read. All you people desperate to think that rich people are all beautiful WASPS and better than everyone else. There are insecure wealthy people, loud bullying wealthy people, socially awkward wealthy people (hello, Bill Gates!), fat wealthy people, wealthy people who wear designer clothes and jewelry, wealthy people who cram their houses with gaudy crap, etc.

+1

That list describes only the rich people that exist in a middle-class white person's imagination.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- a quiet confidence and sense of ease. I can’t explain it. They’re relaxed looking.
- nice demeanor and friendly and approachable.
- thin and healthy looking. Glossy hair, clear healthy skin, straight healthy gums and teeth.
- no obvious signs of striving. Not decked in designer clothes or jewelry.
- surprisingly thrifty. Use the library instead of buying every new best seller. Buy children’s clothes on eBay as opposed to boutique stores.
- home decorated sparsely but tastefully with antiques and nice carpets.
- biggest expenses are home in a nice zip code + private school

This is the stupidest list I've ever read. All you people desperate to think that rich people are all beautiful WASPS and better than everyone else. There are insecure wealthy people, loud bullying wealthy people, socially awkward wealthy people (hello, Bill Gates!), fat wealthy people, wealthy people who wear designer clothes and jewelry, wealthy people who cram their houses with gaudy crap, etc.

I disagree. Not PP. That is one type of rich. It's really hard to fake all of that. But yeah sure rich people come in all different packages. Seriously you can't tell 100% for sure who is and who isn't, but there are sub-groups where the tells are extremely clear.

Clothing. One family we know almost exclusively wear Vineyard Vines and Ralph Lauren clothing. They literally look like they are dressing for a photoshoot all the time.

Anonymous wrote:- a quiet confidence and sense of ease. I can’t explain it. They’re relaxed looking.
- nice demeanor and friendly and approachable.
- thin and healthy looking. Glossy hair, clear healthy skin, straight healthy gums and teeth.
- no obvious signs of striving. Not decked in designer clothes or jewelry.
- surprisingly thrifty. Use the library instead of buying every new best seller. Buy children’s clothes on eBay as opposed to boutique stores.
- home decorated sparsely but tastefully with antiques and nice carpets.
- biggest expenses are home in a nice zip code + private school

This is the stupidest list I've ever read. All you people desperate to think that rich people are all beautiful WASPS and better than everyone else. There are insecure wealthy people, loud bullying wealthy people, socially awkward wealthy people (hello, Bill Gates!), fat wealthy people, wealthy people who wear designer clothes and jewelry, wealthy people who cram their houses with gaudy crap, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Calm self-assurance. Not always, but this is usually a pretty good indicator.

Hahahahahahahahahaha. Lots of rich blowhards and insecure new money.

Anonymous wrote:Bone structure. There’s a certain moneyed look for sure.

Hair maintenance. It’s expensive to maintain nice hair.

That said I’ve seen all kinds of rich people at this point in my life. Thanks to America’s class mobility, all kinds of people can and do become rich. American rich can be very hard to pick out.

You win for dumbest post of the month.

Anonymous wrote:

Most people I know have iPhones. If you drop an iPhone, it will break.

Why would you ever buy a phone that is so fragile that it will break if dropped?

You sound like an idiot. Any phone dropped on concrete will break.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Indian Americans.

They live below their means but most are rich. Even the poors have enough to pay for kids college, big fat 100K weddings, retirement, paid off home, kid's first car etc.

How do they do it?

B/c they have no retirement and expect their kids to pay for their life past 60. They aren't rich.

This is not true at all. Indian-Americans are the wealthiest ethnic group in US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income

Yes, income. But why do they need their kids to take care of them? B/c they spent all their money on weddings, school etc. I have not met very many that are retired without their kids help. Not rich to me.

It's just your perception or your social circle. There are significant cultural differences and American-Indians do not function like WASP Americans. Family is super important to us. We are not usually the products of broken families. Most of us are college educated. Most grandparents help in raising their grandkids and most build up generational wealth for their children. Multi-generational living is not rare.

You can spend your money on your kid's schooling, weddings, on creating a comfortable home for your family, OR, you can spend it on your expensive habits, divorce, rehab, alimony, child support.

Please list the phones that will never break when dropped. I'll wait.

Look for anything that meets MIL-STD-810G/H for a start. It is no guarantee that the device will never break, but it is an indicator that it is designed to be durable in actual use:

Some examples: https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-rugged-phone/ and https://www.androidauthority.com/mil-std-810g-rating-1017646/

Anonymous wrote:Air of entitlement...

+1 And treating anyone not in the same social strata as invisible. Not badly...they can be quite polite but they don't *see* them. It's hard to explain. You see it in DCUM where a lot people just assume everyone makes a certain amount of money. Also-taking for granted that most people can't afford certain things.

Anonymous wrote:

Most people I know have iPhones. If you drop an iPhone, it will break.

Why would you ever buy a phone that is so fragile that it will break if dropped?

Please list the phones that will never break when dropped. I'll wait.

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.

Most people I know have iPhones. If you drop an iPhone, it will break.

Why would you ever buy a phone that is so fragile that it will break if dropped?

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Wearing brands such as, and pretty much exclusively:

Ralph Lauren
Brooks Brothers
LL Bean
Oxford shoes


I automatically assume someone is broke AF when I see them with:

Long fake nails
Michael Kors, Coach, Louis Vuitton branded anything
Fake hair
Pump heels
Showing their belly button in public

Well I have a Louis Vuitton purse and I wear extensions. I'm nowhere near broke. But I feel many on this post are probably over 45 so there's that.

You look like a freak.

+1

Tysons Mall weekends have become that - the long, freakish fake nails, the fake hair, the fake lashes, the head to toe branding that looks like pajamas. Big everything.

Damn shame.