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It's not neccessarily bragging, it's more likely people who have recently woken up to the fact you don't *have* to act like a baller and they are recognising the comfort in saving and being secure vs the comfort in fitting in and keeping up with the Joneses.
It's also a bit of an arbitrary line depending on where you value the comfort of your current experience vs your future experience. It's going to be different for everyone.
There is also opportunity cost. If you're earning 200k and renting it really depends on what you're doing with the rest of your money that decides whether you're truly doing the best thing financially.
To me it's pretty simple.. Never be so frugal you forgo too much enjoyment, never be so prolifigate you forgo security or opportunity. Or at the very least, be frugal about some things so you can be prolifigate about others.
I don't mind the frugal guys. They'll never need handouts or bailouts like the guys that spend up and go bust. But I do understand what you mean if it's the guys that nitpick everything or use their own ignorance/lack of empathy as the basis of criticism. (Like the cheapskates/cultural troglodytes that bash eating out anywhere that costs more than a hamburger.)
You really have to know the situation and the reasoning behind it.
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