I’m frugal, live in a run-down house, and don’t spend much money on myself. My papa says I have a healthy sense of money and has complimented me on it.

But while we were staying at a luxury hotel for several nights, he said, “You can’t stay in a business hotel anymore, can you?” I assume he said that because he saw how relaxed I was, but I felt a little uncomfortable, as though he were teasing me for having developed expensive tastes. He keeps saying things like, “You wouldn’t be satisfied unless it was a luxury hotel now, right?” and “You don’t seem to want to go back to that old rental apartment, huh?” What does he mean by that? Does he think my sense of money has become distorted? If I didn’t have my papa, I’d be perfectly fine not staying at luxury hotels, and I could sleep in a shabby room too. So what would be the ideal response in this situation?