Wise choice. For once your friends (and family) find out how well you are doing, they will soon beat a path to your door with an endless litany of hard-luck stories in an effort to mooch some of that hard-earned money away from you.
I try to keep my financial success low-key. I live well but not extravagantly. My wife and I are just as happy having a meal at Applebees than some five-star restaurant and driving a beat-up Nissan (that's paid off) than driving a Mercedes - and we could easily afford one.
You have to understand that most Americans have been conditioned by liberal society to "hate the rich" and assume that wealth was somehow ill-gotten or at the expense of somebody else. My wife and I both come from working class families and the vast majority of our family even today lives on a precarious edge. Nobody in our family went to college, we were all expected to get working class jobs and be happy with that. So there is a lot of envy when family members come to our home and see what they don't have. We certainly don't flaunt it but it is evident when you come into our home that we don't hurt for money. So many of them avoid coming at all or make snide comments.
Personally, I think hatred and envy are self-destructive emotions. I have never in my life hated anybody or envied anybody for what they have. All you need to be successful in America is a positive attitude, a good work ethic and the ability to live below your means while saving and investing the difference. Anybody in America can build wealth on those principles. It's a pity that more don't see that.
That's one reason I don't eat in restaurants anymore. You have no idea what is going through the mind of the people who prepare your food.
I can't recall where I read it, but it was very recently that said the politics of envy are traced to primitive civilizations where envy plays a large role, even spiritually. The examples were the spirits who would kill a good looking or healthy child and thus parents would take certain measures to deflect this envy and that for much of the world the success of one man is not explainable without him causing harm to others.
The 'guilt' we associate with many well-to-do socialists is actually a form of that deflection of envy. It isn't even quite guilt as much as it is a ritualized expression to demonstrate that they are not worthy of envy and to target someone else with the evil eye or some curse.