Bono tells a story of the big house on the hill.
In Ireland (England), people walk past it and wave a fist, saying, “That fucker!”
In America, people walk past it and point, saying, “One day, that’ll be me!”
Sums up the mentality and beliefs of the two places. As a young Brit, I felt about like the Yank, but expressed myself as the Brit.
Today, I definitely have the Yank mentality about such things.
If not me, who? If not me, why? The only other question is “How?” and then it’s working to achieve it.
Jack has earned every penny for every bauble he owns, so no problems there. The problem is that everybody knows who he is and that his gaffe is probably flush. That requires protecting from scrotes who don’t want to earn it the hard way and would rather just take it.
As someone said, I doubt they’d find £1M of bling at Rodri’s pad!