Becoming rich didn't change much to my life. I already had a salary of $180k, when my personal investments in the stock market increased 10 fold to reach 40 years of my salary after taxes or 120 years of my yearly spending. Thanks to my high salary, low spending and controlled high risk investments, I could manage it in around 15 years.

My sole objective was to retire early and travel year long. I didn't expect to come it so fast, and I need to prepare. As of today, I have the impression I work just to pay my taxes and my plan to retire in a tax heaven island is becoming slowly a reality.

So I am still the same. I still spend the same (buy groceries at discount, travel off season in eco , cook at home, simple hybrid car). My colleagues know I am wealthier than the

y are (I talked about some of my investments), but they expect I will retire max 5 years before legal age, not 20.

However I made the mistake of saying it to my parents and their attitude changed totally. Since I shared my level of wealth to my parents, I became the stupid rich, the unresponsive son, the son they didn't want to have. It would not be so bad if they were not secret millionaire themselves (they don't accept being millionaire and critize them). My parents are narcissists and sharing my wealth to them was the worst decision I made. They are also manipulating some members of my family to convince them how stupid I am with my money. I am known as the stupid rich in my family now, just because I have a high salary. My wealth is still a secret to all except my parents.

To conclude, becoming rich has not changed anything to my way of life. However, it completely changed the way my narcissist parents treat me. Becoming rich through saving and investments maintain good habits on the long run, but people around certainly change.