Well I guess a woman who has her own blancket in a village of a poor country is richer than Anna Bey. Everybody should look around them, they will understand they have the same and more than this woman. What people are impressed with are the architectural backgrounds of the big European cities. But you know, baron Haussman didn't create Paris only for Anna Bey, it's for everybody. Geneva and London too. If
@MollyHL,
@Vanilla&cyanide and I, who are living in France, start to show people how we take our coffee at a French terrasse people will think we're affluent. But it is not us, it is the city, the French culture, the French architecture etc. If I show you my XVIIIth c. desk you will think I am the wife of a rich art collector. But in fact I bought it for nothing, an IKEA desk is more expensive than mine. But if you put my desk in an empty room is like an exposition of art, the room doesn't need decoration. If you put the IKEA one, you must buy the whole IKEA concept in order to have something acceptable in the room.
And this is available for all the "activites" she is showing : it's not her "elegance", it's the Western European elegance of the cities. But if you are in EE you have amaieing historical cities, if you are in Asia, Gosh don't let me start it, it's my dream to see thoses countries....
The "affluent" life is in everybody's hands.