..to be the richest guy on the block or the poorest?
I'm thinking the poorest.  The guy with the cars on his lawn, the barking dogs, the rowdy friends, the loud Harley, the smelly cigars.  That guy always seems to be the happiest.  Everyone else is miserable, but he's loving it.
The richest guy on the block has to deal with an entire block of the above.

This is meant to be a relative scale here.  The poorest guy could easily be pulling down 250k a year if everyone else on the block is making 500k.
Conversly, the richest guy could easily be making 35k a year if everyone else is making 25k.

This isn't a poll to see if you want to be rich.  Take what you make now.  Would you rather your neighbors make more than you or less than you?

I wanna be rich and miserable!
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The poorest guy can afford a Harley?  Shit, in my neighborhood, only the rich guys can afford a Harley......

Best to be rich but live poor.  Fewer worries that way.