Got a friend who just moved to San Antonio. He's like dude come here, houses are so cheap right now. $1.5M gets you a mansion straight up. I'm like ya, but it's San Antonio. He's like you got me there.
I call it (in my city, San Diego) the SoCal starter kit. Men get a BMW 3 or Audi, usually black or blue color. Women get thr BMW 3 in white.
The luxury lease payment of $600/month comes with the $4.5K a month apartment you share with 4 people, the $60K a year entry level job.
Literally living a rented lifestyle.
I recall a couple years ago someone was doing a rundown on their job doing charity stuff for super high wealth individuals here on reddit and they had one person who was a huge outlier. They weren't named directly but all fingers pointed to it being Larry.
They were left basically alone in one of their huge mansions in San Francisco and just as a casual part of the conversation the billionaire suggested that he could kill the charity worker then and there and no one would ever find out.
Kind of takes a psychopath to just randomly bring that up in conversation.