Re: How much it costs to be Bill Gates

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Bret L <ixtarbrules@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How much it costs to be Bill Gates

"A reader writes that

I met Bill and Melinda Gates a couple times after they bought a
house in Fairbanks Ranch [a gated community in northern San Diego
County next to Rancho Santa Fe]: 5K square feet, $5.1M, on a postage
stamp lot. ... We used the same bank.

His clothes were just a little better with never a sign of wear,
eye-glasses just a little better with not the least sign of corrosion,
etc., suggesting he replaced them every few months. They went to the
local cinema which had just a touch of the artsy to it. They
patronized the best coffee shop and consistently tipped the barristas
a buck. But the small noticeable visual differences in quality
represent a lot of money difference in the prices he paid. The glasses
he wore were the $350+ titanium ones, not the 2 for $100 ones most
people where I live now get. The shirts were priced $200 apiece in
the window of the local shop

He was close enough to notice if there was corrosion on his glasses?
lol
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