【海外の反応】資産5000万ドル超の家で見た「異次元すぎる行動」がガチでヤバいwww

I work as an art handler in a major city. Their collection consisted of antiquities, things that would usually be reserved for museums. Think 2nd century BCE vases, figurines, etc.

On the desk of the client, there was a small Athenian chalice painted in the iconic orange-figure-black-background style, developed around 500 BCE.

Inside of it was paper clips, spare change, and chewed gum.

I was a cleaner and I was paid to join the family go to their holiday home upstate and clean the holiday home while they were there. They were only there Saturday and Sunday but they wanted me to clean throughout. I changed the bed every day and cleaned up like I would do at a hotel.

When we came back, the chauffeur had a problem so they just organised a local cab company. The husband sat in the front, I sat at back with the wife. The husband started smoking. The cab driver said he could not smoke. The husband said, I'll pay you money to get the car cleaned.

The cab driver said no, if you smoke I will get a fine. The husband told the wife to pass him her (very expensive) Hermes handbag. The husband went into the bag, took out a huge pile of cash… about $1,000 and put it on the dash. He said to the driver, it's fine, I got you covered and then he started smoking!!

Not me but my wife

She was a nanny for a fairly wealthy family

They were actually pretty down to earth. Really nice people. Always flew commercial and the father drove an older model Volvo

But that $8M original Monet that hung on the dining room wall was something else

I fish on a guys boat in Marlin tournaments a couple times a year. 1 of the 1st times he invited me, I asked about dates n such and mentioned "now all I need to do is find a place for the family to come stay for the week in the area"…so he says "My friend has a beach house available for around $12K a week."…which i replied, "Bud, that decimal needs to move 2 places to the left for me to afford it!". His response was cool though. "Sorry, sometimes I forget." Then gave me a number to call and mention him. Got a beach Condo for $1500 for the week, which was about 1/3rd the going rate!

Did some private cheffing of a family that had a net worth above 10 billion, their 2 dogs were cloned from the original dog who died at 18 y old. they had health issues all the time so we were required also to cut the dog food to specific grammage etc.

We spent probably $400k building a custom vehicle for the wife to have a mobile office. Satellite tv, internet for video calls, streaming tv or movies, armor, custom interior, lots of flights to So Cal during the building of it, etc.

We have it two weeks and the husband decides to go mountain biking. Throws dirty mountain bikes in the fully custom leather and wood interior made up like a Rolls Royce living room. Leather ripped, wood scratched, carpets with axle grease in them….disaster.

I was about to be pissed that he could be so careless but if I had his money why would I care? The minions would emerge and fix it with no financial worry to him at all.

We build (framed) a house for a Middle Eastern type guy in Corona Del Mar, California. He bought 4 smaller adjoining houses and bulldozed them. That right there has to be $8M. Anyway since this was a city street in a neighborhood there was nowhere to store Lumber or heavy equipment but on the city street and sidewalks. On more than one occasion I saw and heard him talking to Code Enforcement while writing them a check for $25,000 and telling them to come back when it ran out.

After I got out of the Navy I went to Graduate school full time. I was unemployed and using the GI Bill.

My parents have a friend that owns a very successful software company and he's in the 100 million range. He's also a complete fucking prick.

There was a bad thunderstorm one night and he called me the next day and asked me to come clear some trees that had fallen over on his property during the storm. I needed some extra cash so I said yes. He said he would be in the area and he'd come pick me up.

He pulled up in his $100k+ Mercedes S Class that was less than a year old. He said he needed to make a stop at the Mercedes dealership on the way. I said okay.

We pull up and there is a NEW Mercedes waiting for him. We get out and move to the newer one and sit in it. I figured we are just doing a test drive or something, or he's using this as a loaner while his car is getting serviced.

The Dealership Manager (not a regular sales guy) comes to him with a clipboard and he signs a bunch of papers.

The Dealer looks at him and says "Black Card?"

My parents' friend says "Yeah, put it on the Black Card"

We drive away. It wasn't until we were a few miles down the road that I realized that he had just BOUGHT the car.

That's when I realized that ultra rich people just do things differently than us regular folks, including how they buy cars.

I worked for a high net worth doctor who had sold outpatient surgery centers to private equity for over $100 million. I’m a CPA and ran his family office for close to a year.

When I needed time off for my sick 11 month old, he asked why we didn’t have live in help.

But the biggest thing, and not much rattles me after 20 years of looking at crazy numbers on a screen, was the cost of owning a yacht. The boat itself was only a few million – but the captain, first mate, food, gas, repairs, cost of going through the Panama Canal was insane. In the neighborhood of $500k a year, easily. He would fly out to it to go fishing for the weekend and he didn’t even eat fish he was vegan.

In general he was fairly normal. Had emigrated from Cuba on a raft type story. But the yacht was crazy.

A friend helped look after some properties for a VERY famous individual. Dozens of employees, massive upkeep for houses nobody was ever in. Then one day they came in and found this famous person asleep on the couch. The famous person left a couple hours later. $20 million house used for a nap once.