I have heard of Rose Garden, on the outskirts of Beijing. It was renowned as the most expensive, over-the-top housing development in the city. Their villa had five bedrooms, six bathrooms, his-and-hers saunas, a table-tennis room, a pool-table room, a library and a swimming pool. He eventually realized it was too big and too much trouble. “When you don’t have something, you really want it. When you get it, you realize how much work it is to have so much. It was so tiring to barbecue all the time. We had to clean the pool every two days. I had to sit with guests in the sauna. We had to buy lightbulbs by the case.”