In my hometown, someone won the lotto (~ 50 M pesos or more, can't remember exactly) around 15 yrs ago. Bought land, made a huge dormitory - apartment complex, prolly gave some to relatives, then went abroad. I heard that they visit from time to time but mainly live abroad. Prolly PR or citizen somewhere else by now. They weren't dirt poor to begin with, more like low middle class. But surely they have the "six degrees of poor relatives" - everybody here has them. I guess they mainly live abroad to escape the relatives, gossip, etc, and to have 1st world conveniences. Can't blame them.

Now where's my lotto ticket again? Heh...