Throughout the Popoya Islands community pressure is exerted on people who win the national lottery to share their good fortune with their neighbors  When people living in rural areas win the lottery they invariably throw elaborate neighborhood feasts, often wiping out all of their lottery winnings
However, in the cities, lottery winners frequently use their winnings for their own personal investment rather than sharing their good fortune with their neighbors
Families in rural areas in the Popoyas many contain twelve or fourteen people, but city families average six or seven.