If you’re not familiar with American magazine Town & Country, it’s a real eye opener into the lives of the obscenely rich.
Quite aside from offering a plethora of luxury items and experiences for you to throw money at in order to starve off the boredom of being married to your third husband, Harold Ignatius Buckingham IV, it offers titillating reads such as, ‘50 Richest Families You’ve Never Heard Of‘, ‘The Secret Language of Jewellery Snobs‘, and my personal favourite: ‘Campus Espionage: Is Your Kid’s Roommate A Russian Spy?‘
It’s utterly obsessed with the Royal family and Netflix‘s interpretation of that, The Crown, has an Instagram feed filled with picturesque escapes to the Amalfi Coast and Nantucket, and delves into politics mostly so far as to say the Kennedys really were something, weren’t they?
(Look, I kid. It’s probably got some good articles, too.)
But its latest issue asks the most important question of all, one which has besieged the ultra-moneyed for decades: Just how rich is too rich?
Oomph, there it is:
And it’s not the only cooked article in this mag.
https://twitter.com/Nicole_Cliffe/status/933396558422327296
https://twitter.com/Nicole_Cliffe/status/933400181269135360
But back to ‘How Rich Is Too Rich?‘. Unfortunately, the article isn’t available online, and we’re not rich enough to get this thing express posted from the United States, but this Twitter user has been kind enough to post a screenshot of this absolute belter of a quote:
“You get a rush from that first beach house, that first Picasso. But then you realise you’re not enjoying it – you’re a janitor to the stuff.”
https://twitter.com/Nicole_Cliffe/status/933402247790190593
OH I’M SORRY, TARQUIN. DID MULTIPLE PICASSOS IN YOUR MULTIPLE BEACH HOUSES NOT MAKE YOU HAPPY?
To absolutely no one’s surprise, the concept of the richest of rich wondering if they simply had too much money was rightly roasted.
https://twitter.com/jayasax/status/933399586017857545
is this from a 30 rock episode
— warhammer 401(k) (@Leask) November 22, 2017
I always wonder if *actual* rich people read Town & Country, or if it’s aspirational.
— Lorelie Brown (@LorelieBrown) November 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/jennhoegg/status/933401323864764416
https://twitter.com/squirrelpope/status/933463450080219138
— jax (@jax__c) November 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/933404742398726147
The title of this magazine makes sense now after reading this thread. It’s for people who own a town, but why stop there? Why not purchase a Town & Country!? https://t.co/XnWmX89oPM
— JWEngelhardt (@JWEngelhardt) November 22, 2017
I can quite honestly say I’ve never wanted to read a magazine so much in my life.
