Obviously, they are extreme examples, but outlayers reveal the overall tendency. Every culture has outliers in some general direction. They weren't wealthy. I just lived in the country, in the 1990s, where people had large properties and lots of land was just empty. People bought up retired Army equipment, after Desert Storm, and drove it around and target-shot. It's all subdivisions for Austin, now, and full of left-wing software developers drinking green smoothies.