to.be.rich

I picked the youngest kid up at a friend's house down on beacon hill today. By this point, I'm pretty used to the fancy houses and semi-famous people we run into thanks to the private school the girls all attend. This house was one of the nicest. It was on a "tree" street right by the common/public gardens, and the mom (who was very nice and not at all snotty) told me that they just gutted it and moved in at the beginning of september. Apparently it had been an apartment building, so they had to get rid of all the apartments before they could make it into a huge a** brownstone. Not only can I not imagine how they managed to buy up a bunch of condos at the same time, but I really can't imagine how much that property cost. That real estate plus the cost of gutting and completely remodeling the place must have set them back at least $4,000,000- and that's just a guess. Depending on how many apartments were in the place, it could be much, much more. Ahh...to have money, yet not be spoiled rotten by it. That's the ideal mix.