My wife and I make okay money in a middle class area, but, due to a combination of good luck, and contrived to circumstances, we recently got to watch a college football game in the stadium’s super executive corporate sponsor level suite. It was awesome. Open bar, amazing catered food, and people networking all around me who are clearly in the c-suite of their respective companies. I had a list of crazy things I was going to say if someone asked me what I did, but it never came up.
As a German the ICE is nothing special, at least when riding in 2nd class.
Sure, it’s nicer than riding regional trains, but it’s nothing very posh.
Yes it’s not much, but it feels special because it’s an international train for which you usually have to pay a supplement.