Seattle has some really beautiful places, plus you can build a huge compound by the Lake Washington area. I would love to have enough money to live anywhere I wanted; then move back to Portland. Unfortunately, I must stay in SoCal because of family and great job. You Oregonians don't know how good you got it!
Eh, I dunno. That's a bit of a stereotype there. I would say the wealthy people I've met are no more or less stingy than the rest of us. If 40% of us are stingy bastards, 40% of them are stingy bastards. It only seems skewed because the people you roll with have absolutely nothing to be stingy with (not you personally, just in general).
Eh, I wouldn't go back to Seattle just cuz the extra little bit of rain they have over Portland. It's gray enough up here in the PNW - don't need to go further north and make it worse.
Not true. I deal with these wealthy people on a daily basis for the last 10+ years. They are extremely protective of their money. So much so, they have advisors on how to shelter the money to lower their tax burden as much as possible. Very rarely do I come across the type who would "write off" $3 million dollars as nothing.
well, there's more and more persians up in the spot. But up to 60% of the clientele is from out of town/out of the country. :MARIS61:
Sucks to be you. I've been dealing with very wealthy people on a daily basis for well over a decade now. I can tell you I've been shocked by the generosity. I've been invited to stay at houses well in 8 figures (both with and without the owners being there). I've been offered trips. To me, they're big things. To them, not so big. My wife deals with higher-up execs on a daily basis (think some of Oregon's biggest companies). Shocking how generous people have been.
I just don't believe Ron Tonkin is generous. I used to live in his old home in Raleigh Hills. He was skimpy on the silliest things.
There's a line between being generous and being financially stupid. They like to show off, sure...and give kickbacks and shit like that and some are mad chill. But seriously, try to collect money from some them and its a motherfucker.
That's not very big. I'm talking all the BIG Oregon companies. Think of some of those huge corps out in Beaverton/Hillsboro.
Dude the people in the Northwest are some of the kindest peeps on the planet. I would go for the attitude. Living in Miami is so far from that. People there are so fucking pompous it makes me sick. Never thought there would be a place with more pompous people than L.A.
True. But one of my wealthiest clients used to give 10-20% of his earnings to charitable causes. And he'd give more to political groups (which weren't deductible). I'm pretty sure it's just a difference between the people you work with and the people I work with.
Phil is an idiot. he makes more money through endorsements than playing golf and he is going to bitch to the media that he has to make "drastic changes" because of the tax laws. Moving your "residence" is hardly drastic changes and complaining about taxes when you make so much is going to have a backlash, especially when you make money based on your image. In hindsight and it all being about money for the lefty, of course he is going to apologize for the statement. After all, Phil would hate to lose one of those endorsements . . . imagine how much he bitch about that.
This I cannot disagree with. Though, the people have gotten worse. All the damn Californians moving up here....
This. He's going to feel worse if he loses an endorsement. Like you said..... he's a whore for the money. So of course he's sorry.
