So, you never bought a house? You never leveraged your money to increase it?
Maybe people can be a "brain" in some small unimportant areas while greatly lacking minimal basic common sense in other areas. Where I came from, people were not looked down upon for being brilliant - they shone and were rewarded... They invested wisely, freely sought each others advice - - they built businesses and used their profits to help others and live good lives.
Most of it was new money made after the war - and their manners and kindness to others was impeccable. Creating scholarships for promising students was a regular activity.
maybe you feel you didn't fit in because you walk around proclaiming yourself smarter than everyone else? How many times here on this meaningless forum of strangers have you proclaimed you are soooo smart, Mr. .000009%? Surely there are other smart people here but they don't spend half their posts proclaiming how smart they are..
My father and brother always belonged to golf clubs - they never felt the need to proclaim them 'high end' golf clubs - -