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of some very, very old and serious money. I can tell you that when they drive, they drive Toyotas. They drive top of the line Toyotas, but they're Toyotas. Their houses and grounds are large but the furniture is often old without being antique and in need of reupholstering. Yes, there are antiques and fine art there, generally the old but not yet antique stuff inherited from previous generations.
In other words, they are not the people you'll see tooling down the main drag of town in a Jaguar or even a BMW, although their offspring might do that while they're still in college.
They do inhabit a different world from you and me. Shopping, when it is done, is generally done above ground level and quite privately. Travel is by private jet taking off from private airports. Those small jets at big airports are corporate jets, not private jets. When they get sick and need to go to hospital, they are whisked into VIP wings at big city hospitals.
Above all, they studiously avoid anything they consider flashy or vulgar. Clothing is tailored but understated. Fabrics are foreign and fine but colors are subdued.
My mother once told me that the people who have money are the ones who know how to hang onto it. From what I've seen in my glimpses "inside," I know that to be absolutely true.
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