Being from UK, I don't understand how you can have a beautiful house like hanky has without being decently rich.
That's an elite tier house out here (as we're a densely populated, small island).
Hankins is a weird creature indeed. He mentioned there were years he was pulling down $500,000/yr in finance, and some of the stuff that's been posted here smells of old money.
Another thing that is favorable on the house is the property tax. It's around $7,000yr on a $2,000,000 house in NC. The same house where I'm from in the NE, would be $30-35,000.