New York Post – by Eric Spitznagel
John Truett made millions as an oil and gas CEO, but since moving to Teton County, Wyoming — an area inhabited by an increasing number of wealthy transplants like himself — his biggest passion has been becoming a “normal person.”
When he visits the downtown bars, “I don’t tell people that I live in a gated community. They accept me as a local,” he tells author Justin Farrell in his new book, “Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West” (Princeton University Press), out now.
Money, he insisted, hasn’t changed him.
“Yeah, I’ve got the airplanes, a motorcycle, and I love driving my Beemer through the mountains . . . [but] I go down and drink beer with the guys that run the lifts, and I’m as much as a ‘lifty’ as they are.”
Truett is just one of the hundreds of CEOs, investors and moguls — some of the “most powerful and well-known figures in business and politics” — who have made Teton County their home. Some live here permanently, commuting to major cities for work, and some only visit during the summer or winter months. Everyone interviewed by Farrell for the book did so on the condition of anonymity (all names are pseudonyms).
Teton, once known as a “little quaint cow town” by locals, has transformed over the last decade into a haven for the ultra-wealthy, with full-time residents like former Vice President Dick Cheney, Wal-Mart heiress Christy Walton and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
See the pics and read the rest here: https://nypost.com/2020/03/14/why-so-many-billionaires-are-escaping-to-teton-county-wyoming/
Memo to useless eaters (aka psycho billionaires who are parasites on everyone else)–either go to New Zealand (half of you have bunkers there anyway) or Antarctica (which is where you belong IMHO), and get the hell out of everyone else’s way. Or be tried and exiled to Antarctica anyway for crimes against humanity and wildlife as well, you worshipers of mammon, if not Satan. Or repent, give your ill-gotten gains to help the rest of humanity and I can think of other repentences but I don’t want to get too religious here…
“with full-time residents like former Vice President Dick Cheney, Wal-Mart heiress Christy Walton and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt”.
Just a regular guy like you and me…. makes you fkn sick…..!
At least he is in good company, if we the people ever westle our country and bill of rights back into existence, I hope these and all the other over confident criminals are still there, just acting like regular folks…. cause they will be arrested, tried and hung, just like the regular criminals they are.