How do these people in rich neighborhoods?
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usually they bought real estate low and sold it during a boom.
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People who live in heavens do so because they have wealth that they have either inherited or earned or swindled. There are two types of people in this materialistic world - the 'haves' and the 'have nots'.
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This is a sad observation mostly about poorer Americans (1), a distinction in the gap between the poor and the wealthy in the United States.  The poorer individuals in America have a larger tendency towards obesity, and wealth is very much correlated to obesity, as shown in this study (2).  Speaking anecdotally, you see alot of overweight individuals in urban areas and in immigrant neighborhoods, which are generally less well off than white suburban neighborhoods (3).\n\nThis is actually very odd, in less developed nations you see the reverse: the poor are starving and thin, and the rich are obese.  Often obesity is a sign of wealth and status in cultures where food is scarce (1).\n\nWhy is it that in the US, the wealthier you are, the less likely you are to be overweight?  From what I have seen, wealthier individuals have muchy better diets.  They do not eat cheap junk food like McDonalds or frozen burritos.  They also have the money to join health clubs, go to spas, and basically they can afford to lead healthier lives.
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Because affluent people tend to socialize around activities, like sailing or tennis, and can afford to travel and pay for those activites, while people with modest incomes make do with the people around them.\n\nNeither is better than the other - the poorer people have a greater sense of community in the immediate nearby sense, while the affluent people combine their business networking in with things they like to do, because they can afford to.\n\nAt least, that's the way I see it.
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There really is no Black or White answer to this question.  Even though, I am sure there are many "rich" people in the world who are nice, I've seen many more who are not so much.  In my experience, money has a tendency to change people, even when that person has the best intentions at heart.  Although I would love to have more money, I would never wish to be "rich", only comfortable enough to be able to support myself, with no loose ends.  I may be going agains the grain, here with my answer, but I think I lean more towards "poor".  Those who are poor, or live from paycheck to paycheck, tend to appreciate the small things as we all should.  "Poor" people do not care about having extravagant houses or 5 cars, one for each day of the week; they are content with a roof over their family's head, a meal for each night, and an old dependable clunker to get around in.
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I have a niece who recently moved to NYC.  She and her friends have found the housing in Brooklyn to be the most reasonably priced.  There's public transportation everywhere in the city.
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When upper class people think they don't have to move for anyone they think is "below" them.  Example...walking through a fine foods store.  Happened to me..I was walking down an isle and these snooty upper class rich people would NOT move when I was trying to get through.  They did it in a manner that pissed me off big time!  They walked an purposely bumped into me an made and "ugh" noise.  I didn't bump into them!  So I went to the next isle to get my food and they came down that isle.  I stood there and stood there and stood there with my cart.  I wouldn't let them through.  They refused to go back the other way.  I just stared at them.  Finally they walked off.  Other customers were laughing.  I mean...this couple was uptight as hell!
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Unless you are super rich.
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move to brooklyn then. Anything in the city will be a fortune and very small. Apartments are very hard to find in the city. it's not like on TV. Lear the train systems cause owning a car in the city is extremely expensive car port rents are almost as much as an apartment. Good luck.
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lifestyles of the rich and the famous...... u gotta love it
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The common conception is that stingy people are that way because they have no money - because they have to be.  Some of the cheapest people you'll ever meet are rich folks though so in reality it can go either way.  At first it doesn't seem to make sense that a rich person would be stingy but then you have to figure there's a reason they are rich in the first place.  They probably didn't get there by being casual about money.
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Way way TO much! That's why you see them in fancy cars, expensive suits, wearing a Rolex watch..etc...preaching the law..YET if your a poor person, you don't even exist to them.
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the rich don't usually go to heaven so hell
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I've often thought about this question. In my job, I travel all areas of Dallas TX daily. I see the extremely ridiculous wealthy people homes, neighborhoods, cars, schools, etc and I see the homeless under bridges trying to beat the heat 5 miles south of those neighborhoods all the time. My daily travels in Dallas allow me to sample extreme ranges of social and economic classes and it saddens me to see people living in the streets or ghettos and barrios without hope, beaten down by life and invisible to the public while in other parts of town, people have 3 new porsches and a jag in the garage and use an 07 Escalade for a daily driver. It is sad that so many have so much and are willing to do nothing and so many (like me) have very little but want to change everything... \n\nI don't think there is anything you or anyone can do to limit the wealthy or to force them to help their fellow man. Keep your mind and heart straight and do what you can do to help people around you. I applaud your thoughts and morals and love for your fellow man. If it's any consolation the Bible says that riches accumulated here are worthless in the next life and that the least and most humble among  us will be first in the next life. So I hope that the people I see suffering everyday without hope or help will be greatly rewarded or at least find sweet relief in the life after this one...  Good Luck with your question...
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Survival of the Richest
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It is an illusion.  You may recast it as "monetary privelege."  Any color person can have money, and the people in the super-rich class have privelege.  They get hooked in with all the people with money from childhood on.  Therefore they will go to the best schools (or have it available) and hob-knob with all the richie people who run corporate america.  When a person from the elite needs a loan, or needs a business partnership, they all help out their own.  I feel it is difficult to break into that super-elite class, but anyone can.  I may not know how, but it is possible, and it is not limited to white people.  Maybe in 1932 that was true, but not now.
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Depends where they practice.In a large city, they can usually expect higher six figure incomes.