Well, DocT, I’m just fine with people viewing porn. However…I don’t really want to view it with my kids. Just a personal preference, I guess! 
You’re kidding? The scene busdriver11 mentioned was not edited out.
I can watch some racy stuff but I didn’t expect what I saw from a mainstream movie.
What did your future son in law trade? I think your son in law made a good decision. I think a phys ed teacher can be a very fun job.
I never asked him. He didn’t do it very long. His decision came from several factors. He lived in NJ and commuted into Manhattan which he hated. Also he made a trade where he lost a few million. His boss told him not to worry about it but it made him sick. He has a very strong moral compass.
I didn’t trade, but I worked closely with traders while developing software for them. I cursed occasionally during and after college, but I became pretty foul-mouthed after my time on the trading floor. When in Rome . . .
Some of the stuff that happened there, oh boy.
^Yup! 
Well, I was a floor trader and I am still pretty foul mouthed. However, that scene @busdriver11 mentioned, I haven’t done that. And if any poster here has done that, please keep it to yourself. 
Yes, please. We DO NOT want to know! 
@docschicos, you spent time on a floor?
@DocT, a few million dollar loss? Wow! I don’t know what these other posters think, but having a strong moral compass works better in a school!
When I was about 30 years old and just starting out in my profession my secretary said to me ‘I consider myself rich when I can pay the bills at the end of the month’. That really stuck with me. That made total sense to me. Everything is relative and living within your means is important.
I haven’t read this thread at all - too late here, but I’ll get back to it.
In response to the OP, I would say you’re rich if you can cover all of your monthly expenses easily, and still have enough time and money to take 2 or 3 very nice vacations every year.
If you can’t do that, I don’t care how much money you make - you’re poor. For the record, I’m poor
What IS a “nice” vacation? The ones I’ve enjoyed can vary between a “staycation,” going to a hotel in our city, going to another state or going to another country.
HIMom, I would not mind a staycation at a nice hotel in Honolulu (or Ko Olina or Turtle Bay)
@BunsenBurner, the cost of a tesla can pay for several Hawaii trips.
Of course, you can live there like Himom.
Your definition sounds nice. I guess everyone has their own definition.
For me, it’s anywhere with low stress, no bedbugs, no criminals, and really good food.
Nice scenery and a beach, and I’m definitely in.
We’ve stayed at quite a few different HI places–Hawaii Prince Waikiki, Hilton Hawaiian, Turtle Bay, Ko Olina.
When we have less dispoable income, we’ve had more modest trips that were closer to home, shorter and when we have more funds, they are longer and we have better lodging and food. Vacations and travel are a very flexible item in our budget.
@HImom, you sound rich I’ve only been to Hawaii once, but we did stay at very nice places. Would love to get back there some day.
Hawaii is the nicest place I’ve ever been, but I’ve had some very nice vacations at some other lesser known places. I’ve found that length of stay mattered more than the actual place, as long as the place met my standards of no bedbugs, no criminals, etc.
Yes, I live near most of my extended family and am able to see my loved ones pretty often, so I am rich in love and friendships.
We now only stay at hotels where I know the doors lock properly (have stayed at a few where locks were iffy–not doing that any more). We also have stopped staying at hotels that are musty or smoky, since they make us ill, seriously (it can mean being sick for a month or longer). I find it hard to pay $100 for a hotel room and really hard to pay over $200, but sometimes we DO splurge and do so, but it is a struggle to force myself not to wince. I know in big cities and for convenience, you have to pay the market rate, but ouch!
We are financially comfortable. We are rich in that we can pay all our bills, including our MDs. Rich is such a relative term. H likes to say we are the “poor relations,” since we have many relatives who have much higher incomes and assets than we do, but we are fine and won’t need our kids to support us, now or ever. We value that greatly.
I agree. I used to live in a city in which I felt more wealthy, but we moved closer to family. I’m now much less well off financially, but much more well off emotionally.
It can be a tough balance–finances AND loved ones. HI is a very expensive place to live, especially housing, but when most of your loved ones are here, it definitely weighs heavily in the decision of where to live. It’s great not having to travel far to see loved ones and living where folks enjoy visiting you!
@SouthernHope wrote “Honestly, having a rich sibling is better than being rich yourself. It’s like having a generous neighbor with a backyard pool rather than having to deal with a pool yourself.”
My personal code would prevent me from sucking off of people who have money-I grew up watching my parents parasite off of relatives who had worked hard for their stuff, and as such have a deep seated aversion to such suckage.
@busdriver11 wrote “Oh yeah? Try taking your kids to the Wolf of Wall Street, where the opening scene is Leonardo, where he is snorting cocaine out of a woman’s oriface[sic]… you might just walk out.”
How could you not know that movie was about anything other than excess? That’s on you, my friend.
Our flight back from San Francisco to Atlanta had Magic Mike (the male stripper movie, which I’ve seen) as an option for the movies to watch on the screens on the back of the seats. I have to wonder how long THAT particular movie would be if edited to be acceptable to general audiences? Five minutes? Less if you think Matthew McConnahey is SUPER gross ( I do). I watched Pitch Perfect 2, thank you