In Germany, things are a little bit different I'm afraid.
My wife is a doctor and she drives a Boxster S and she still has "problems" with patients who tell her in her face that doctors earn too much, bla bla bla. The fact is: in Germany, doctors currently earn a ridiculous amount of money for the work they're doing, so most people who say this just don't have a clue.
In my job, things are even worse since I have a business which relies on customer faith and trust but even more on sympathy since businesses like mine can be found at almost every corner over here. If my customers think that I earn too much, they carry their business somewhere else, that simple. This is a german thing, it is something down deep in our blood I'm afraid. Almost everybody here tries to hide things, I think Germany is actually the country which invented the board "de-badging".
Hard work isn't too appreciated over here, we show compassion with animals, beggars and the unemployed but not with hard working people who earn a lot of money.
Even in church, priests are accusing the "rich" of taking from the poor and enjoying their lives on their back. Ridiculous, in Germany 7% of the citizens pay over 80% of the taxes, so the "rich" (and believe me, I'm not rich by definition) actually run the whole state, without their money, Germany would go down the drain and I suppose it is the same in other countries too.
Anyway: we have two little kids and "provoking" neighbors and friends actually does harm to them, believe it or not. If me and my wife wouldn't have kids, we couldn't care less about what neighbors or "friends" think.
I already stopped picking up my kids in my 997 Turbo at friends or at school since there have been made some pretty nasty comments about me and my car, comments which actually arrive at my kids' ears first and this is what bothers me.
A friend's daugther came back home from school a couple of years ago, asking her father if it is true that he is a "rich bastard" and only profiting from the poor. My friend was shocked, apparently the religion teacher of his daughter explained the words "rich" and "poor" to the kids and went a little bit too far with his descriptions. When my friend went to school to talk with the head of the teachers, he recommended to him to calm down and forget about it since it could "harm" his kid's grades later on.
We live in a society where you have to be "ashamed" of earning good money and this is something I'll never understand.