Who are the "Hidden Millionaires" in small towns

In Louisiana, its usually people with oil.

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Apparently, some small town people more money than they let on.

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Wait, there's people that don't flaunt their money and spend it like drunken sailors?

any small town millionaire I came across was from a family who owned a bunch of land in the area

There are many of them. Not everyone who has money thinks that spending it lavishly on mansions and cars are the key to happiness. I know people that wear 20 year old sweaters and drive a Mercury Marquis that have millions in the bank.

Even the poorest parishes are going to have at least 3-4 land barons, whether in ag, oil, or timber.

There are tons of hidden millionaires.

My mother was a teacher.
She died in May with a net worth over a million dollars.

It shocked me.

People with land. They tend to own a lot of it and all think it's worth twice what it actually is. But yeah they got money.

There was a guy in Ruston that I used to see cruising around in a Viper. He looked like a hobo but he was loaded. I think he made his money with daiquiri machines.

Dave Ramsey says lots of people are millionaires and invest in things you don't see, like stocks.

sure...pretty much anyone can become a millionaire over the course of a lifetime. just have to get a decent job and save aggressively. this allows you to avoid buying on credit, which eats up a hell of a lot of your lifetime earnings.

fwiw, those saying that farmers are all rich obviously don't know much about how that profession works. most farmers borrow inordinate amounts of operating cash every year with the goal of profiting what most of us would consider to be a pretty average paycheck when it is all said and done.