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Sunday, April 18, 2004

richest counties in america

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#1 teton county, wyoming (average adjusted household gross income $107,694 in 2002)
#2 fairfield county, connecticut
#3 marin county, california
#4 sommerset county, new jersey
#5 morris county, new jersey
#6 clear creek county, colorado
#7 douglas county, colorado
#8 hunterdon county, new jersey
#9 westchester county, new york
#10 new york, new york

update: since people either aren’t reading this in the comment, or just enjoy comparing the size of their income, this list is based on “average adjusted household gross income” as reported by the irs. you can find a newswire version of the story here. for now, fairfax is just going to have to learn to deal with their inadequacy issues.

update (2004.05.08): maybe these will help

posted by roj at 11:00 pm  

350 Comments »

  1. I’m looking for the source of the information provided above, on the richest counties in America. Please email me at scbortnick@att.net

    Comment by Carla — July 4, 2004 @ 11:22 pm

  2. this list is based on “average adjusted household gross income” as reported by the irs. you can find a newswire version of the story here:

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-04-17-wyoming_x.htm

    Comment by roj — July 4, 2004 @ 11:47 pm

  3. I’m from Fairfield, CT in Fairfield County, and i can tell you that it’s really really FUCKING RICH… almost everyone i know lives in a $2 million+ house and drive the most expensive cars you can find… A one floor ranch with 1 acre and 3 bedrooms (as my house is) is $500,000! I’m in Wisconsin right now and a house worth $500,000 is 4 times the size of mine back home… i was actually under the impression that it was #1 richest in America, but #2 sounds right.

    Comment by Lauren — October 13, 2004 @ 12:23 am

  4. Ill tell you what, Im from Bloomfield Hills, and that city is pretty darn rich aswell…it is surrounded by multi million dollar homes, on top of that its cities near by are the same. You can ask any person from detroit and they will mention bloomfield hills being the top most richest city,and birmingham coming close.

    Comment by Adam — October 26, 2004 @ 2:35 pm

  5. Does anyone know what Oakland County in Michigan is ranked?

    Comment by joe — October 29, 2004 @ 2:17 am

  6. I think that DuPage County in Illinois is one of the top 10. It is so fucking rich. I and 6 members on my block drive lamborghinis and own 3 speed boats. I live next to Billy Williams and he has his own helicopter and private jet with a pool. Keanu Reeves is my butler. See now thats fuckin rich. I mean when ya live next to Shaun Birns who gets laid every night due to the amount of money he has, that tells you a lot. Yea the fag that lives in Fairfield can eat a dick. What a fuckin liar. DuPage has its own army. We have our own show like Laguna Beach but laguna beach has more std’s because they cannot afford the medical attention that we can. My friend has his own dog named Mr. Magoo. To all thos who are wondering Mr. Bean lives in DuPage.

    Comment by andy sarwalk — October 29, 2004 @ 9:12 pm

  7. I live in a town called Wellesley, Massachusetts. The average house price in this town is $1,400,000. And there are only 2 towns, statewide, that match this. They’re in the same county. Norfolk County, which I’m surprised didn’t make that list.

    Comment by Sean — November 1, 2004 @ 10:00 pm

  8. Damn, no wonder New Jersey is full of such scumbag yuppies. I live in Somerset county, located sort of between Hunterdon and Morris, so I am surrounded by the blue-blooded bastards. We have our share of ghetto towns though, but I do work on alot of the houses in the rich areas, and they more than make up for the poorer areas. I never realized that in other parts of the country it’s so rare to see BMW’s, Mercedes, and often even crazy cars like bentleys and ferraris and shit, I’ve always lived in NYC, long island, or Jersey, so I guess I am jaded. I say jaded not spoiled cuz I am not one of the rich bastards, I build their houses for them.

    Comment by Ken — November 7, 2004 @ 6:43 pm

  9. Where does Hamilton County from Indiana land on the list? It is a very rich county. Many top executives from Lily, Roach, and former Conseco Insurance. But then again the more apartments that go up reduce the price. But I think Hamilton County used to be on the list.

    Comment by Ryan — November 7, 2004 @ 7:57 pm

  10. Ryan –

    Hamilton County, Indiana was on that list in 2000 (or was it 2002). Median county income around $71,000. Average home price? Only $166,000. Gotta love the Midwest.

    Comment by Bob — November 10, 2004 @ 12:33 am

  11. I would just like to point out that I too am from Fairfield, CT – which is part of Fairfield County, the 2nd richest county acording to your list.

    I live comfortably, but not extremely well-off. I live on the smallest house on a very popular street, and I have many, MANY neighbors with three houses all lined up next to each other, some with mansions built completely out of stone… and this isn’t uncommon, it’s everywhere. People driving 300k+ sports cars … it’s sickening! And here I am, driving the best car we have in the house, a 1995 GEO PRISM!

    Comment by Andrew — November 11, 2004 @ 12:22 pm

  12. Where is Bergen County NJ? Home of some the most expensive homes in the country. Upper Saddle River? Allendale? Wykoff?

    Comment by lou — November 22, 2004 @ 10:21 am

  13. Yea..where IS Bergen county Nj..i know that P diddy and some player from the NJ Nets lived IN saddle river. I once heard it was the third richest county in the US. Was that false info?

    Comment by JEnna — November 30, 2004 @ 4:17 pm

  14. somerset county only has one m.

    Comment by michelle — November 30, 2004 @ 6:11 pm

  15. Morris County here! Everyone around me, especially from the borders of Morris-Union-Essex, there’s almost an unwritten dress code. Everyone wears polo, and all the kids go to private school. Its hard to beleive, but looking down the streets of some of these towns you’ll see nothing but mercedes and expensive cars. In notorious Short Hills NJ their mall is the most over-priced in the nation, and the town starts there houses at $1 million. They buy houses for millions, take them down, and build new ones for even more. Its disgusting. Going to private school nearby, its truely sickening how much money is thrown away; many of my highschool friends had their own audi’s, mercedes, BMWs, and a few had drivers. My two best friends had dad’s with one owning weichert realtors, and the other Arizona Iced Tea. Where does this influx of money come from? NYC is only 20 miles away (about 30 minutes – 1 hour).

    Comment by John — December 4, 2004 @ 12:08 am

  16. What about those rich cities in California near beverly hills?

    Comment by Dime — December 22, 2004 @ 9:33 am

  17. These figures dont seem correct.. but I guess they are from 2002, last i read NY was number 1. and the county I live in (oakland, michigan) was number 4. I guess there are no up to date statistics on this though.

    Comment by Frank — December 25, 2004 @ 2:44 pm

  18. Morris County…That’s my home and I beleive that it is higher in rank. Other sources said it was #2 after Sommerset, NJ which seems just right. I have relatives in Fairfield County, CT and Marin County, CA…Morris seems to top both

    Comment by pete — December 29, 2004 @ 9:23 pm

  19. I agree with the dude that said Dupage County should be in the top ten list, I live in that county I’m not one of the rich ones but there sure seems to be alot of big houses with 4 car garages all around me. People driving thier sports cars and Hummers.

    Comment by april — January 7, 2005 @ 3:26 am

  20. Its not so much the large houses, but the land value. In some parts, half acres are a million dollars not including the house. Californias’ rich sections aren’t densely populated. Beverley Hills is an exception, but that’s just a town. Most often these towns are surrounded by very poor areas.

    Comment by John — February 2, 2005 @ 12:46 am

  21. I think it matters the way they calculate the listings what they get. For instance, Bergen County might not be on this list because they calculate income pre-tax, or maybe they do it per person instead of per household. There are many different ways to calculate this stuff that would lead to different results.

    According to another list, Bergen is #4. BTW, P Diddy lives in Alpine.

    Comment by Krissi — February 9, 2005 @ 11:07 am

  22. I live in Westchester, NY…and DAMN it’s rich. I see a little BOX of a house here that costs 1.2mil!!!!!!! It’d be like 100k upstate!

    Comment by Mikee — February 28, 2005 @ 7:50 am

  23. Krissi, I believe you are correct…Fortune magazine just a few months ago listed Bergen County NJ as #5…and Saddle River ranked in the top 10 of the richest towns in America. Appreciation in Bergen County has been ranked as the highest in the country…in some towns where the average house price is 500K+ (in a “cheap” town, for a 3 bedroom 1 1/2 bath fixer-upper) they are gaining in upwards of 15% appreciation. These people can live off of just the money they make on their house yearly. Come on, Pres. Nixon lived in Saddle River, Tara Reid is from Wyckoff, Phil Simms (Giants) lives in Franklin Lakes (Bill Parcels used to live there as well),Bill O’Reilly is from Ridgewood, etc. etc. It pays to live close to Manhattan!!

    Comment by Anthony — March 10, 2005 @ 5:40 pm

  24. Fairfield County, CT home to the the richest town in the nation, Greenwich and some of the poorest, Bridgeport kind of funny how that works.

    Comment by doug lee — March 12, 2005 @ 8:18 am

  25. about the top ten list, i hear overland park/johnson county in ks is the like fourth most richest, which i love in that area, and damn, its big, and nice houses, cars, everhything, sometimes you see farariis and lamborginis, and vipers, which i guess is not that big but still, are you sure about that cuz this is what i heard

    Comment by kevin — March 13, 2005 @ 12:54 am

  26. I live in Lake County, Il which is said to be the most affluent counties in the U.S. It is situated on the North Shore of Chicago, and is home to some of the wealthiest towns in the U.S. like Wilmette, Winnetka, Glencoe, Bannockburn, and Kenilworth–which was actualy ranked the richest town in the U.S. last year.

    Comment by Eddie — March 23, 2005 @ 10:09 pm

  27. Im from Fairfax County Virginia which is said to be the #1 richest county in the United States your list is way off

    Comment by Miles — March 30, 2005 @ 4:04 pm

  28. since im from illinois i agree with my illinois peeps about dupage and lake counties. I live in dupage county, in oak brook which was around the 30th richest suburb in the us and trust me everybody around is rich as hell. and in lake county my uncle has a house in kenilworth which is the richest suburb in the us and not to mention highland park, where michael jordan has a 30 million dollar home

    Comment by unknown — April 3, 2005 @ 3:50 am

  29. Miles, I’m from Loudoun and you’re completely right. I’ve seen stats the last two years from the Washington Post putting us third in the nation and you at number one.

    Comment by Josh — April 5, 2005 @ 10:07 pm

  30. You people from Illinois are completely off base. You don’t really know what rich is until you step outside the Midwest. Everyone around you has a huge house and nice car? Big deal. People from my area of course have all that, and they’re making millions a year. Money can only buy so much, the rest goes in the bank. That’s what makes you rich. You Midwesterners with huge houses are probably secretly scraping by, pathetic. Get out of that shit hole you call home and explore the real elite areas of America, on the east coast.

    Comment by NYplaya — April 6, 2005 @ 5:00 pm

  31. I have the slightest idea of what these areas outside of VA and California look like, or if I ever heard of them, but I live in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia and I can guarantee, that this county is the richest. not only do we have multi-million dollar homes, and hundred thousand dollar vehicles, but the area surrounding these homes consist of tens of hundreds of company headquarters and the best public and private schools. The communities are friendly and we also have the best sports programs. Virginia AAU wins nationals, highschool football is nationally ranked and players are scouted by the nation’s best, brightest student athletes come from this area. The counties surrounding Fairfax such as Louden and Prince William were (recently) the nations fastest growing counties, so they too are wealthy as well. The entire county of Fairfax isn’t an exception in this region. Northern Virginia and Fairfax county is home to the WORLD’s leading companies AOL, Dell…wtf Walt Disney was thinking about putting a theme park in pur region (Prince William County). If this area can support a theme park, headquarters, very expensive plots of land, wealthy ceo’s, government organizations, extremely successful school programs and athletes. Its not the oh so common millionaire homes and tricked out cars that we see every single day, but the shit we have to drive by that make this area more worthy of being the nation’s richest county. Healthy and wealthy people next to the nation’s capitol. What more can you ask for?

    Comment by Allen — April 18, 2005 @ 12:11 pm

  32. I live in Teton County and we are the greatest place in America so everyone else can deal with it. We are not pretentiouos and do not drive the hottest rides but we are definitely the coolest.

    Comment by Mark — April 18, 2005 @ 6:29 pm

  33. The list at the top is really off. I live in nassau county. Not all of the county is Huge mansions. But a 6 room House with a 75×120 property cost about $650,000 I grew up in Sea Cliff and know live in Locust Valley. I can tell you the richest county in america is definently Nassau County, New York.
    Billy joel who owns a 20+ million dollar estate in Centre Island, NY.
    Jennifer Lopez Lives in BRookville, NY
    Howard Stern lives in Old Westbury. NY
    The owner of Home Depot Live in Sands Point, Ny
    The owner of Arizona Iced Tea also lives in Sands Point (which is the most expensive town in nassau County. THe average house vallue is +5,000,000.

    Thats just a few of the rich people who live here.
    Nassau county also has the nations lowest unemployment rate.
    Some other very expensive towns are
    Old/Upper Brookville
    Oysterbay
    Lattingtown
    Kings Point
    Manhasset
    Muttontown
    Matinecock
    Mill Neck

    Comment by Derek — April 26, 2005 @ 12:54 am

  34. I agree with Derek that Nassau County is the richest. It is a suburb of the richest city in the US, New York City. I live in Roslyn,ny in Nassau county. I also agree that Sands point is the richest town. Nassau county isn’t the only extremely expensive county in the New york City suburbs. The whole Tri-state area is expensive. Fairfield,ct, Bergen,nj, Westchester,NY Morris,nj, Somerset, nj, are all rich.
    All these counties are desireable areas for rich people who work in the city to live because they have a short commmute to work (exept fo the tremendous traffic jams.)
    These areas have the some of the highest high school graduation rates and going to college.
    The housing bubble has had a big effect in the area. A $500,000 house in 2001 now cost $900,000 in 2005. Its crazy.
    Builders are packing in as many houses as they can and pricing them extremly high. Also taxes are very high.
    There are some areas in these counties that don’t have huge mansions, but even those towns the houses are very expensive. (like what Derek said “a 6 room House with a 75×120 property cost about $650,000.”) If you want to live in these counties you have to be VERY whealthy just to afford the cost of living- The nyc area usually has the highest gas prices in the country.

    Comment by Frank — April 26, 2005 @ 5:35 pm

  35. This list is correct, i live in fairfield county and i can tell you that it is rare that a house in my town is worth under 2 million dollars. You have to realize, that in fairfield county, every house is like this (for the most part), and even though some of the counties you talk about have several mansions, a small house in faifield county probably goes for around one of the biggest in any other county.

    Comment by as as — April 28, 2005 @ 1:08 pm

  36. I dont understand why some of you want to belittle others? Must me a New York thing, trying to compensate as usual. Im from Lake County, North if the Chicago Area. I realize that there rich and expensive home where all of you live, but you can find them everywhere. Lake County Illinois is the second richest county in the US. You can go to the Courthouse and verify it. I did(I got a speeding ticket)so I asked while I was there. Im not going to say your all wrong and your idiots, but those of you who belittle the Midwest, well, Im glad you dont live around here. Makes my life that much more enjoyable.

    Comment by Lawrence — April 29, 2005 @ 12:47 am

  37. not to interrupt your guys’ fun, but why are you all bragging so much? unless you goto each others towns and counties there is no point in arguing which county is richer. and what a stupid argument to begin with, money doesn’t make people happy, i know first hand. this is like trying to have a big dick contest without looking at anybody else.”dude mine is huge” “no trust me bra mine is bigger”. dont know if that sounds correct but i think it gets the point across.

    Comment by pat perry — April 30, 2005 @ 11:58 am

  38. Where are you getting your data from? I’m from Fairfax County and as other posters have said here this county is so filthy rich it’s disgusting! Our government center has marble floors for christ sake!

    According to the US Cenus Bureau the richest counties based on average yearly income are:
    1 Marin County, California $44,962
    2 New York County, New York (Manhattan) $42,922
    3 Falls Church, Virginia $41,052
    4 Pitkin County, Colorado $40,811
    5 Fairfield County, Connecticut $38,350
    6 Teton County, Wyoming $38,260
    7 Somerset County, New Jersey $37,970
    8 Arlington County, Virginia $37,706
    9 Alexandria, Virginia $37,645
    10 Morris County, New Jersey $36,964
    11 Fairfax County, Virginia $36,888

    I only included #11 because it’s Fairfax County.

    The richest counties based on median yearly income looks like:
    1 Douglas County, Colorado $82,929
    2 Fairfax County, Virginia $81,050
    3 Loudoun County, Virginia $80,648
    4 Hunterdon County, New Jersey $79,888
    5 Los Alamos County, New Mexico $78,993
    6 Morris County, New Jersey $77,340
    7 Somerset County, New Jersey $76,933
    8 Falls Church, Virginia $74,924
    9 Santa Clara County, California $74,335
    10 Howard County, Maryland $74,167

    Fairfax County held the #1 spot in that category for years. Amazing considering the huge surge in lower-income housing developments, and the recent flood of hispanic immigrants.
    According to the cenus bureau almost 25% of Fairfax County residents are foreign born!

    Not to spam, but if you’re from Fairfax you should check out a great local forum for residents called Fairfax Underground. http://www.FairfaxUnderground.com

    Comment by Cary — May 3, 2005 @ 8:58 pm

  39. Somerset county over here! I live in watchung, one of the wealthier parts. My freind across the street is dad is the CEO of Bank of New York, he has like 10 cars, 2 houses both bigger than the average house, one a ferrari! u wnat it? he has it trusts me. his 5 yr old son has an ATV!! WTF?! i heard that marin county was number one and somerset was number 2 of the richest counties in the U.S. In watchung almost every father is either the CEO of some company, owns the company, or is a doctor or lawyer. Almost every single one of my friends has a mercedes of a porsche, my dad’s had his share of nice cars but prefers his 1970 Chevy Stingray. In watchung there is almost nto a single person who doenst ahev at least 2 houses, eithr both int he U.S or one across seas. Private school isnt the ting here, we all go 2 WHRHS Watchung Hills Regional High School! Walk in every girl has either a Louis Vutton, Coach, Gucci, DOlce & Gabbanna (my favorite desginer), or Juicy somehthing. Every grl has a Tiffany somethign usally 2 or more. Most of the grls n guys ahve eith MAD souped up cars, or BMW Audi’s or mercedes. This county is fuckin ridiculous. O and every grl almost has a pair or Chanel or Dior sunglasses,a nd they all wear desinger clothes, jeans at 200 a pop! The houses go for a million a piece! This area is fuckin ridiculous! a recent census would be great thugh cause i used to live in Marin county, and now I’m over here, I don’t think the rankings are 6 spaces apart!!! like i said everyone here is FUCKIN RICH!

    Comment by adena — May 4, 2005 @ 11:03 pm

  40. I live in Bergen County, and i know for a fact it is one of the richest in America. the houses are sick. i live in the town next to Saddle River and i pass lamborginis and bentleys on my way to school every single day. Russel Simmons lives in Saddle River, and probobly has one of the nicest houses the MTV show “Cribs” has ever aired. I would say houses in bergen county average at least $700,000, and incomes are definately over $150,000. Another county i thought I would see is Nassau on long island, sick wealth

    Comment by Joe — May 5, 2005 @ 11:33 am

  41. NASSAU COUNTY IS THE RICHEST COUNTY!

    There are towns here where the average house is over $2,000,000 and neighborhoods averaging over $10,000,000! a house assesed for $10 mil+ http://www.nassaucountyny.gov/mynassauproperty/description.jsp?txtSection=4&txtBlock=139&txtLot=5&txtSuffix=&txtBldg=&txtCondo=

    another for $10 mil+
    http://www.nassaucountyny.gov/mynassauproperty/description.jsp?txtSection=4&txtBlock=B&txtLot=19&txtSuffix=&txtBldg=&txtCondo=

    http://www.nassaucountyny.gov/mynassauproperty/description.jsp?txtSection=4&txtBlock=B&txtLot=448&txtSuffix=&txtBldg=&txtCondo=

    All these houses are in sands point, the richest town in america

    Comment by John — May 5, 2005 @ 8:35 pm

  42. Nassau county is the richest county in america. It is a suburb of New York City which is the richest city in America. All the rich people who work there live in Nassau county. Noone else can argue that it is not because the facts are right here. If people are too stupid to realize these facts HAVE TO BE RIGHT, then they are STUPID!

    Comment by NASSAU COUNTY RESIDENT — May 5, 2005 @ 8:44 pm

  43. I have to say that people who bash those who are rich are the uneducated ones who are merely jealous of the money. That goes for that construction worker Ken.

    Comment by Lin — May 5, 2005 @ 9:43 pm

  44. i say that all of you arguing over who is richer are fools. I live in a upper middle class family, my parents combined make $140,000. From the way u talk, could u even live like this? not being able to drive your bently, not being able to have every thing givin to you like your some fucking king. we live great in our city in wisconsin, but there are always slobs like you who think your better then every 1 else cause your life is a cakewalk.

    Comment by Lucas — May 10, 2005 @ 4:20 pm

  45. I was also born and raised in Fairfax County, Virginia. Fairfax held the top spot for 13 years until the 2005 rankings came out. Just as an example the Fairfax County School System has more buses in it’s fleet than the next two smaller school systems COMBINED. We have bad neighborhoods too (like Route 1 near Mt. Vernon called Gum Springs) but it’s a great area. Those of you that think you have the greatest area, please check out the stores in Tyson’s Corner and Tyson’s Corner 2 shopping centers.

    Comment by Chris S — May 11, 2005 @ 12:59 am

  46. have any of you ever been to greenville delaware…or yorklyn delaware cus those are the two richest towns i have ever been in…most of the houses are custom 2-4 million dollar homes and the kids go to middle and high schools costing up to 31 thousand bucks a year…i am from hockessin right in between those two towns and i go a 9 thou a year school which is pretty cool…so yea just said that to let you all know that delaware is the small wonder

    Comment by dan — May 11, 2005 @ 9:16 pm

  47. Yeah I’ve lived in Bergan County all my life and when I go to other parts of the country I just feel so weird cuz everyone here is so damn rich. Sure, my family is definetly not one of the richest, but I heard recently that the house we live in is worth at least $500,000 now, so I think that counts for something because it isn’t even that big.

    Comment by Emily — May 15, 2005 @ 12:05 am

  48. I know what u mena. I don’t only live in Bergen, but I also live in Upper Saddle River. I’m moving to Saddle River and it seems so weird ‘cuz it’s a few miles away, but it’s so much damn richer. And the houses are huge! Like mansion size and all this crap. I’m gonna miss my USR (Upper Saddle River) friends though….

    Comment by Kevin — May 17, 2005 @ 9:15 pm

  49. to sum everything up:

    new jersey is the best place to live. it has everything you can ever need or want and you dont have to worry about crime or anything like that, as long as you live in the nicer areas like hunterdon county, somerset county, or bergen county.. hell hunterdon county didnt have a murder in it for some like 13 straight years or something… i have lived in hunterdon for 19 years and all you new yorkers who think nassau county is the richest, ur wrong.. u may have more millionaires but overall, everyone in those 3 nj counties are wealthy… there are like no poor areas in them at all… and what does having millionares do for you???? haha good, your neghbor makes 8 million a year, what does that do for you?? anyway nj is the shit and i will always live there…

    Comment by Mark.. — May 18, 2005 @ 8:18 pm

  50. All you people should understand that all the majority of the counties that are being refered to are in the New York Metro area- Nassau, Westchester,Fairfield, Bergen, Somerset, Morris. The cost of houses is alot, but the people can afford it. The area has good jobs and the lowest unemployment rate in the US, This has made the housing market explode, but the people can afford it because they have the high paying jobs, So as the price of the houses and the cost of living goes up, people get paid more and then they buy bigger houses. New York City has alot of jobs and the people have the money to spend. The area is highly populated. More, and more houses are being built. Supply in demande, Which is a Major reason why the area is so expensive. Too many people and not enough houses. THE PROOF IS HERE.

    Other areas have been effected like this also- Marin, Fairfax, Lake. But they have not been effected AS MUCH and New York has.

    Most people don’t like New Yorkers. They are hard working people who make alot money, and can afford all the luxuries that alot of people cannot have. Thats why alot of people don’t like us. Most People are jeaulous, but if they come here they could have the same luxuries we have. Many people come here from other countires to live otu the American Dream. They have a great opportunity, and are lucky to be able to start out their dream, in New York because of all the reasouces they have being in the greatest city in the world.

    Comment by Derek — May 19, 2005 @ 11:46 pm

  51. How did all of your family’s aquire so much wealth. There are area’s in milwaukee near,and on the lake that all houses are worth over $5 million each. Very nice neibghorhoods.

    Comment by Lucas — May 20, 2005 @ 4:13 pm

  52. Fairfax County remains on the top, not because of the multi-million dollar homes but of all the shit thats happening around them! Once again, Fairfax, aka Northern Virginia is the powerhouse of Virginia, and pretty much everywhere else around the D.C. area! Do not tell me, that business around D.C. isnt as booming as that of New York or any other major city in the world, because it is…it is the home of the world’s leading companies! Who cares if there is a nice neigborhood, the fucking companies are based in Fairfax County, thats where the riches come from. Not to mention that every inhabitant of Fairfax County is a government agent or works with the government. NOVA (i hate that saying) is, one must admit, even those from Jersey declare, by far or equally the richest county in the nation. tyson’s corner, springfield, patomac mills etc..then the city…cmon how can there be a lack of business? 1 or 2 people that own a company dont make an area rich, just theirselves…Fairfax in all it’s aspects is rich…even the blades of grass, street signs, port-a-potties, shit were wealthy livin. So go and bask in the shade of another 1 person’s home, instead of going to one of our state of the art buildings, shopping centers, school programs, w/e. WE also have some open space, woods aka trees in our neigborhoods unlike any area further north from Northern Virginia.

    Comment by Allen — May 25, 2005 @ 4:02 am

  53. I live in Westchester county, NY and I must say that I am suprised that neither counties on long island mad the top 10 list. Granted Nassau county has an extremley HIGH crime rate, Im not sure if that comes into play when ranking the counties. I am also suprised that Rockland county another wealthy NYC suburb did not make the list. the average house price is almost 600k and everyone there owns a business in or out of the city. Rockland has the best public schools in the country. I am not suprised that Westchester made it because we always do!! wink wink dont hate congradulate

    Comment by Scott — May 26, 2005 @ 10:43 am

  54. Go to http://www.mlsli.com (multiple listing service of Long Island and click on nassau county and look at the prices of houses. It says the taxes, property size. (to choose an town you HAVE to put in the school district, and if your not familliar with the area you can just click on the school district.
    go to-
    RICH- Great Neck,Port Washington, North Shore, Cold spring harbor, Port Washington, Jericho, manhasset, Syosset
    Middle- Bethpage, Garden City, Plainview/old bethpage, Hempstead, Wantagh, Hewlett/woodmere, Roosevelt, bellmore, massapequa.

    Go to the website and look around for a little while and you’ll see the ridiculus prices of houses and the small properties their on. There are more houses in nassau county that are more than a million dollars than less than a million dollars. its crazy.

    Comment by derek — May 28, 2005 @ 1:37 am

  55. I’m a 14 year old student in Fairfax County VA, and I must say that there are some pretty rich places in the US, Fx county being among them. The lists change depending on where you get them from, and I say it doesn’t matter who is the richest. I’d just like to note that these counties are all very rich.
    I’ll admit that yes, there are a lot of immigrants in this area [you can't go to McDonald's and see people who didn't take english as a second language working there anymore.] But we’ve also got our good aspects. For example, my City, the City of Fairfax [which is actually seperate from the county] was named one of several Tree City, USAs. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richest_places_in_the_United_States#Richest_counties), Fairfax county ranks at eleventh for per capita income, fifteenth for personal per capita income, and second for median income. Now, mind you, Virginia hold 15 of the top 100 richest places by median income.

    Comment by Chloe — May 30, 2005 @ 4:57 pm

  56. Jus to tell you i went to the website and i didn;t even see anyplaces in virginia on the list.
    i did, howerver see many places in New York on the list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richest_places_in_the_United_States#Richest_counties),

    Comment by Frank — June 3, 2005 @ 7:02 pm

  57. I’m a contractor, and I work in the Great Neck, Roslyn, old Westbury, Port Washingon areas and i’ve done a few houses in sands point and i agree that its probably the richest town. A 10,000 sq. ft. house on 2.5 acres of land is $5,000,000. There are Huge Estates that are over $25,000,000. Many houses are in the $5-$10 million range.
    Kings Point is also very expensive. It also has masions worth over $10 million, but not as many as sands point. Old westbury, Jericho, Manhasset Centre Island, Brookville, Cove Neck, Cold Spring Harbor, Lattingtown, and Mill Neck are all rich. Most Nassau county schools are the top in the country. Go to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7723397/site/newsweek/ to see the list of top schools with honors placement and many nassau county schools made the list.

    Comment by George G. — June 3, 2005 @ 7:16 pm

  58. I know the argument is which county is the richest. Most ALL of that money is old money. I didn’t see Williamson County on the list in TN. but it is full of country music singers. May not stack up with the Jerseys, Virginias and New Yorks, but who knows. Pretty darn nice houses here. The beautiful thing about it is we get more for the buck here. Personally I don’t need the ‘tag’ of living in a prestigeous county. I’d rather plant my ass in the backwoods away from all the snot nosed rich kids who havn’t earned anything they have, and live in peace in a 10,000 square foot house for way under a million.

    Comment by wayne — June 7, 2005 @ 11:17 am

  59. Go here- http://www.mlsli.com/uniresults.cfm to see the 10 most expensive homes for sale in nassau county, NY. Sands Point has 4 out of the 10 houses on the list. No other towns have more than 1 house in the top 10. The most expensive house for sale is in Sands Point. $24,500,000.

    Comment by george — June 7, 2005 @ 4:49 pm

  60. I was suprised to learn that Morris County was on the list. I live in Moris County; most of my friends are “down to earth” and not really wealthy! I am also greatly shocked that Bergen County is not on the list. However, I realized that Bergen County’s southern portion is less wealthy and contains many people that live in poverty i.e. North Arlington, Wood-Ridge, Hackensack (downtown and southside), Moonachie, etc… so there is a balance of wealth.

    I have lived in New Jersey for my whole life (half in Hudson and half in Morris). In this period of time, I have learned that the people I enjoy spending time with are the ones that are not wealthy. Most of these kinds of people are snobs, think they are better than other, aspire to reach for the stars with little or no work ethic, and never can get enough material items to be satisfied. When I go on furniture deliveries I see this. Huge $10 mil. mansions in Bergen County yields no tip. A small cottage in Passaic County yields a huge tip.

    So don’t cruise for friends who are rich. Cruise for friends who are “down to earth,” hard workers, yielders of time for you, those who watch your back, and those who are content with their surroundings.

    Comment by matthew — June 16, 2005 @ 7:04 pm

  61. All you idiots in New Jersey are out of your mind! I know New Jersey pretty well and it has the worst schools in the country, most areas are poor slums. New jersey is for all the idiots who didn’t make it out of high school. WOW! there are a few nice towns. BIG DEAL! The rest of New Jersey is grose, and dirty. Poverty in new jersey is out of control.

    I say we give em to canada so we don’t have to deal with em anymore!!!!!!!

    Comment by Mary — June 17, 2005 @ 2:33 am

  62. hey you guys i just moved up to bloomfield hills mighigan is pretty rich as you all should know. First of all, dont write off the people who said those things about those towns in illinois. I have mad proof that kenilworth illinois is the richest town in the u.s. based on median household income. I myself also found it hard to believe, that those north shore suburbs of chicago are that rich, i mean, i never would have thought it was in illinois. Comming from that fact that i used to live in Northbrook illinois which is also on the north shore and is pretty wealthy but not as wealthy as winnetka lake forest and kenilworth. the average home is around 4 to 5 hundred thousand. When we sold ours it sold at 1,400,000 which is pretty good for a black family in a mostly white neighborhood. You can watch Ferris buellers day off and you can see what my high school and town looks like. My high school glenbrook north is known as one of the highest ranked in the country and you can google the schools name and you can read about the hazing incident that hapened if case if anyone has heard about it a couple of years ago. All the articles mention it as mainly upperclass school.

    Read below what i found at cnn money of wealthy districs

    Six-figure zip codes

    Here are the communities with the largest proportion of residents earning $100,000 or more.
    November 18, 2004: 10:22 AM EST
    By Les Christie, CNN/Money staff writer

    Click to see list

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    No. 1 is zip code 60043 in Kenilworth, Illinois.

    According to real estate information provider OnBoard LLC, which created this list based on statistics collected from government and commercial sources earlier this year, nearly 83 percent of Kenilworth households will earn $100,000 in 2004.

    The town just north of Chicago scored several points higher than the runner up, zip code 22039 in the Washington suburb of Fairfax Station, Virginia. More than 79 percent of Fairfax Station households will break the $100,000 barrier this year.

    In third place was zip code 22066, also in Fairfax County, the town of Great Falls, where 78.66 percent of households earned $100,000 or more.

    The only zip from the U.S. heartland to make the top 30 was 66221 in Overland Park, Kansas, outside of Kansas City, which finished 10th at 74.5.

    Surprisingly missing
    Neither 90210, the zip Hollywood made famous, nor any zip code in the posh Los Angeles-area neighborhoods of Brentwood, Bel Air, or Santa Monica made the list, perhaps because these communities are far less homogenous than those that did.

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    • Career: 6-figure jobs

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    • Survey: Millionaires in the rise

    OnBoard’s director of content services, Peter Goldey, points out that, “Many high income neighborhoods fall out of the top rankings because they share postal delivery with more moderate income communities.”

    Zip code 10021 on the Upper East Side of New York is a case in point. It possibly has more millionaires than anywhere else in the area, if not the country. It borders Central Park and includes stratospherically priced residential streets such as Fifth, Madison, and Park Avenues. The average apartment sells for more than $1 million.

    But it shares the neighborhood with many rental units (most zips in the top thirty had an overwhelmingly homeowner population) and a large number of less affluent residents.

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    According to Goldey, “Million dollar buildings are side by side with rent stabilized properties housing lower income tenants.” 10021 is not just old money and investment bankers.

    The top performers are very homogenous. Few have any substantial minority population. All were in the suburbs.

    Thirteen of the top thirty, led by Short Hills, New Jersey (76.7 percent), Purchase, New York (75.73), and Bedford, New York (74.82), were in the New York metropolitan area.

    Four of the top thirty were within commuting distance of the nation’s capital and five were in or near San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

    77094 (72.49) was the sole zip to make the list whose boundaries fall within the borders of a major city. But 77094 is at the far western edge of Houston, a city that has grown to nearly 600 square miles (almost twice the size of New York City) by, in part, annexing adjacent suburbs.

    In most other places, this neighborhood would be way out in a separate township.

    Just because household income is high in these places, it doesn’t mean the residents are better off; in many of these zip codes living expensives are very high.

    To find out how much a six-figure salary stretches in these locations, see our cost-of-living calculator.

    Comment by carl — June 18, 2005 @ 3:05 pm

  63. Fairfax county is so rich. new homes going up everywere selling for a million. I live in a shack that goes for 600 000 $$$ .

    Comment by tim — June 22, 2005 @ 11:41 pm

  64. FAIRFAX COUNTY IS SO FREAKN RICH. 1 ACRE WILL COST YOU ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS. MY HOUSE IS 25 YEAR OLD AND ON A QUARTER ACRE. IN ALL MY HOUSE IS WORTH OVER HALF A MILLION. THAT JUST CRAZY AND THEY SAY FAIRFAX COUNTY IS NOT THE RICHEST. A BRAND NEW HOME HERE WILL COST YA ABOUT A MILLION. NOT JOKN. YOU CANT GET A HOUSE AROUND HERE FOR UNDER 5000 SQUARE FEET UNLESS ITS LIKEK 30 YEARS OLD AND YOU STILL PAYN 500 000 $$. EVEN APARTMENTS COST 300 000$. NEVER SEEN ONE CHEAPER THEN THAT. AND THATS IN THE GHETTO PARTS.

    Comment by timmy — June 22, 2005 @ 11:51 pm

  65. You people are not getting what im talking about in the article i posted above. I wass talking about peoples incomes not necessarilly the housing price. That person that said that all places in the midwest are shit holes is completely fucking ignorant and shouldn’t even talk. You guys can even google kenilworth illinois and articles will even come up as the riches suburb in america. Peace.

    From bloomfield hills mighigan
    formally from northbrook illinois

    Comment by carl — June 23, 2005 @ 2:08 pm

  66. All you people should understand that all the majority of the counties that are being refered to are in the New York Metro area- Nassau, Westchester,Fairfield, Bergen, Somerset, Morris. The cost of houses is alot, but the people can afford it. The area has good jobs and the lowest unemployment rate in the US, This has made the housing market explode, but the people can afford it because they have the high paying jobs, So as the price of the houses and the cost of living goes up, people get paid more and then they buy bigger houses. New York City has alot of jobs and the people have the money to spend. The area is highly populated. More, and more houses are being built. Supply in demande, Which is a Major reason why the area is so expensive. Too many people and not enough houses. THE PROOF IS HERE.

    Other areas have been effected like this also- Marin, Fairfax, Lake. But they have not been effected AS MUCH and New York has.

    Most people don’t like New Yorkers. They are hard working people who make alot money, and can afford all the luxuries that alot of people cannot have. Thats why alot of people don’t like us. Most People are jeaulous, but if they come here they could have the same luxuries we have. Many people come here from other countires to live out the American Dream. They have a great opportunity, and are lucky to be able to start out their dream, in New York because of all the reasouces they have being in the greatest city in the world.

    Comment by derek — June 27, 2005 @ 11:53 pm

  67. EXCUSE YOU ALLLL!!! BUT I AM FROM POTOMAC, MARYLAND which is located in MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD! POTOMAC IS DEFINETLY RICHER THAN ANY ONE OF THOSE CITIES/COUNTIES LISTED ABOVE! FOR GODS SAKE, MICHAEL JORDAN LIVES HERE!

    Comment by george — June 30, 2005 @ 9:55 am

  68. The Bay Area has the highest percentage of millionaires to total population out of any major metropolitan area in the country. A 3 bdrm. ranch on a quarter acre is 1 million + in Los Altos, and Atherton trumps that. If you check out America’s richest towns, you’ll notice that the greatest concentration of towns in the top 50 out of any metropolitan area is in the Bay Area (Atherton, Hillsborough, Belvedere, Los Altos Hills, Portola Valley, Woodside, Ross, Monte Sereno, Diablo, Saratoga, Kentfield, Los Altos, Tiburon, Blackhawk, Alamo, etc.). Check out http://www.apr.com and http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/06/10/BUG2VD678F1.DTL&type=business to take a closer look at what I’m talking about.

    Comment by Bryan — July 2, 2005 @ 4:32 pm

  69. I think what this all really comes down to is that there are A LOT of wealthy people in America!

    Comment by Bryan — July 2, 2005 @ 4:57 pm

  70. Potomac is lyk the second beverly hills…Potomac iz in montgomery county so itz lyk totally the richest county…gosh ppl use common sense…everyone drives mercedes as their first car…nd the clothes r lyk about 200-300 $ per outfit…

    Comment by Skye — July 9, 2005 @ 6:05 pm

  71. My neighbors just sold there house on .19 acres for $2 million in Millburn, NJ. The new owners demolished it and spent $8 million on a new one. You would think that isn’t enough room for a big house, but it was. They’re both 29 and work on wall st.

    CNN Money Magazine: Best Places to Live (my town at number 7, only because the house value and income is too high).

    http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/

    Comment by John — July 17, 2005 @ 9:35 pm

  72. I’m a student from a Fairfield County, and I’m actually surprised that it’s not number one on the list. Everyone is so snobby here. My friend got a brand new benz for her birthday, got into a fender bender, and now she drives a jaguar instead. There are estates in Greenwich worth $45 million, where people like Ron Howard reside. Then, of course, there is Westport, where a T-shirt is around $120. Ferarris and Lamborghinis are not uncommon on these streets. Let’s not forget that the Stepford Wives movie was shot all over Fairfield county, in homes that ordinary people own. My friend owns an private jet, while my other friend lives in a $4 million house and complains that it’s just too small. People here are fricken rich

    Comment by Madison — July 18, 2005 @ 12:38 pm

  73. I am actually from Kenilworth, Il, which is a small village located in Chicago’s Affluent North Shore. I was aware that it was the most affluent town in Illinois but not in the U.S., but not quite sure the country- as it so happens to be. The reason for this is because it has the highest amount of people with seven figure incomes outside of a major city. It is a heterogeneous town which means that there are not to many people if any at all, that have less than a seven figure house and income. Unlike Beveryly Hills, that has a lot of seven figure incomes and houses, but also has income and property below those standards, and thats what they look at when finding the most wealthiest towns. Kenilworth is all residential, it has no condos, apartments, bungalows, It is strictly all Estates. It has no business districts which is made up for in next door Wilmette, and Winnetka, and the median income and property price is $,$$$,$$$. The town looks completely like a overimposed 2 square mile subdivision made of strictly estates, and large pillars and fountains marks its boundaries on all sides seperating the town from the other Affluent North Shore villages. The North Shore can be compared to Califronias O.C. and New Yorks, Long Island by the way. When dealing with median income, it takes the #1 spot followed by Fairfax Hills, Virginia– Which was surprising to me because Virginia is apart of the Historic South, which we all know is the poorest region in the country. Of Course most of the other spots were filled with East and West Coast towns, which I don’t doubt are very affluent. The person who’s from Northbrook was right.-This bit of information is for him/her- Northbrook is a wealthy town and is apart of the North Shore, but is more inland than Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, Higland Park, Highwood, Lake Forest, and Lake Bluff, which are all located right off the Lake and are more extravagant for that reason. I also attended New Trier Highschool, which is the wealthiest in the state and One of the wealthiest in the country. It was the Highschool featured in the movies Uncle Buck, and Sweet Sixteen. This is for the comment made about Midwesterners and Shitholes??? Even though the midwest is primarily land and farm, which by the way if you didn’t know farmers have a lot of money, Chicago and its surrounding areas which we call the suburbs, are the exception. Chicago is the Third largest city in the U.S. Eventhougb it boast the title of “The Second City” Because of its apparent downtown size over L.A’s. To sum it all up N.Y, L.A, and the Chi, are the three major cities in the country, All are going to have top execs, doctors, lawyers, etc. who moved out of the large crowded city and established now very affluent towns in their suburbs. So its should not be about whose town is the richest because, outside of all three cities, their are towns that are classified as highly affluent. And even the above bit of information is true about Kenilworth, I’m sure that there are towns in and around both cities that are equal if not a tiny bit more affluent, that have not been documented.

    Comment by Eliza — July 18, 2005 @ 5:15 pm

  74. eliza im the one who wrote that about kenilworth illinois and i just got to say that you my bitch. You are the about the only one on here who has got some sence and knows hows to find that facts and not talk so fucking compulsively like some of these other fucks. that was exactly what i was trying to tell you people. Kenilworth is the richest town on median based income. Google the town and find out for yourself. Eliza was also right about new trier being one of the richest public schools in the country because some of my very good friends go there. also i know a lot of people feel that just because that they live in a certain town, they automatically think that its the richest and thats certainly not the case, even though im sure they are pretty rich. Also, in my opinion, chicago and its suburbs are one of the few places that dont actually look like the midwest. I mean sometimes if you drive around in chicago, you actually feel that you are in manhattan. Eliza were do you or where did you used to live in kenilworth because as you know i used to live in northbrook and now i live in bloomfield hills mighigan ever since the beginning of the summer because my mom remarried, and i hate mighigan. even though its a nice neiborhood and all, i think northbook and its surrounding areas are better.

    Also eliza how old are you, im going to be a freshman in highschool next year in the bloomfield hills district in mighigan and if anyone is from there, tell me what the highschool is like. Also eliza is it true that kenilworth is racist because i know at some point it only allowed white christians. If this isnt true please tell me because i go to winnetka and glencoe all the time and those people dont seem to be rasist against me. Even though sometimes they look at me like wow! i didnt know black people come to this neiborhood. lol. and just so you know im a he and yes, i know northbrook isnt as wealthy as kenilworth and winnetka and lake forest but i kids at glenbrook north at times drove benzes and bmws. What kind of cars did kids from new trier drive cause i know its even richer than glenbrook north and thats just rediculous.

    carl originally from northbrook illinois
    now living in fuching mighigan.
    hope to hear from you soon eliza or anyone else.

    Comment by carl — July 20, 2005 @ 12:55 am

  75. Carl
    I actually do still live in Kenilworth, I don’t think I will go anywhere else. I stay off of Sheridan Road. Its kind of ironic because I’m also black too and like you’ve mention there’s not to many blacks that way. In Kenilworth there is only one other black family, but there are quite of few Asians and Hispanics. Kenilworth is a Historic town founded in the early 1800s and yes it did start off only accepting white christians, but most of all the other suburbs were the same way. Yes at New Trier, its sad to say but everybody drove a nice car, whether it was actually theirs or their parents. Everybody was in competition with eachother, trying to out due eachother for some reason. I drive a range rover, but i earned mines unlike most of my peers. I had many friends, you can say in a clique, but everybody was. I was very sassy and outspoken, nobody dared to come incorrect. Eventhough I was one of the few blacks in the school everybody was very accepting, even if they weren’t they couldn’t say anything because i was always fresh to deaf, and on my p’s and q’s. Sorry don’t know anyone around your way, I am currently attending DePaul University in Downtown Chicago and a new member of the Sophisticated and Classy Ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Glad to give you a little bit more insight on Kenilworth. Befor i leave i would like to give an aching, screahing, High pitch
    Skeeeee Weeeeee to all my Sorors!

    Comment by Eliza — July 22, 2005 @ 11:13 pm

  76. Hey, carl hear
    nice hearing from u again. i am actually here in illinois again staying with a friend of mine in highland park until school starts up again. been back here for about a couple of days now, thank god. as far as attending glenbrook north highschool, the other white kids were pretty accepting to me as well for the most part. The only thing about the school is that i didnt have no black friends even though there were some that went to the school. for the most part, the kids that were black at my school were pretty much some straight up nerds so i didnt hang out with them. I also meant to say that i will be a junior in high school in the fall, not a freshman. i too drive nice cars to school even though my car is a toyota celica, but i drive one of my parents for the most part because their cars are better lol. my car just sits in my garage while i drive my moms mercedes or convertible jaguar that she got through my dad from their divource. Although im give you props for earining your car, i will probably never have to legitimately earn my own because of the simple fact that i will work in and eventually inherit my dads business in chicago since i am the only child. ecept for my half brother that my mom had from her first marriage. Have you ever beens to any of the Al’s hotdog franchises cause my dad owns some of them. He also owns other parts of restaurants and apartment building in and around chicago. my dad own the Al’s on i think dearborn street right by the portilos and the rock and roll mcdonalds.

    also eliza, where do you like to hang out at and what malls do you shop at. I like woodfield because its a good place to shop at and hang out at the same time. I also like old orchard. northbrook is ok but a little bit boring because there never isn’t that many people there and the stores arent that great except for the neiman marcus and marshall fields. oak brook used to be a really nice mall but their neiman marcus dosnt sell to much good stuff and the mall itself kind of now needs a make over. but when i can really spend some cash my friends and i would go to michigan avenue for the obvious reason that it has everything as far as the upscale stores go. I am really into designer clothes and no im not gay in case anyone was wondering. Its just a sickness i have. So what mall do you and your friends go to. Also, do you know any of the prominent people around our area. now my old area for now, lol. I see michael jordans wife around alot. My family is also friends with walter paytons family. They live down in barrington. All i have to say is damn, his daughter britney is so danm fine. She goes and gets her hair done at the same place where i got my hair cut in shaumburg.

    Also is it true that new trier hates evanston township high school because ive always heard that you guys would always rival with them in sports. what year at depaul are you cause that probably where im going to go to be close to my dad. I also agree with you, i dont see anywhere else to live excetp for on the northshore suburbs of chicago. do you plan to live in kenilworth your whole life or could you live in another area close by such as glencoe or winnetka. When i start a family, i want to live in glencoe near the beach right off of sheridan road. I definately plan to move my dads business to the burbs instead of downtown chicago so i can literally walk to work instead of driving all the way into the city with all the traffic and all. Also why do you stay off of sheridan road. I love driving down it when im just driving around in my car when i take lake cook road from northbrook mall, then it turns into sheridan. i like looking at all the scenery in the summertime although the road is a straight up bitch in the winter with all the traffic and the slippery winding and hilly roads.

    from carl
    p.s. hope to hear from you again eliza.

    Comment by carl — July 25, 2005 @ 2:13 am

  77. okay, as much as I hate to post on a site where semi-literate oakies seem to flock, i’ll point out the obvious. there is a difference between household income,average income, mean income, net worth, etc. Th most affluent counties in the U.S. tend to be around New York, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, where there are numerous large corporate employers, national and international firms and the like. Sometimes population and geographic boundries knock this askew. Bergen County, NJ; Orange County, CA; Nassau County, NY; Westchester County, NY, are all examples of counties that by some indicators are extremely wealthy, but not all because of their large and increasingly diverse populations. Conversely, several small towns in resort areas whose population consists almost entirely of wealthy vacationers that use there second homes as their main residences for tax purposes (most notably in the strictly resort/retirement municipalities in Colorado and Florida). Counties in low income, out of the way places don’t have the number of employers with a wide range of upper level management jobs. This is why NY, NY continues to have the highest mean income, highest average net worth and one of the highest per capita income levels dispite being home to many relatively low income individuals. The wealth trickles down, meaning that taxi drivers in NY often make more than mid-level executives in Peoria. Unfortunately that also produces inflation for the taxi driving New Yorker.

    Comment by John — July 29, 2005 @ 4:58 pm

  78. yeah but one thing about what you just said john, peoria isnt a chicago suburb you complete dumb ass. its practically in the middle of no wear in central illinois. What eliza and i were talking about were the suburbs north of chicago as well as the western and some southern suburbs as well. Please get your facts straight from a source instead of rambling on about something you dont know about. The only thing you said with some sence was the defferences between median income and per capita income. Most people measure on the median base income.

    Comment by carl — July 31, 2005 @ 2:10 am

  79. People do not realize that a 5 million dollar house in one are is worth the same amount in other areas. For example in Sullivan county, NY a 15 room House on 40 Acres cost $300,000. The same property in Westchester County, Cost $30 mill. That same house in nassau county would cost More than $50 mill, In fact there few if any properties with that much land in Nassau county. Another example is a $950,000 6 room 3 bedroom house with .2 acres of land in nassau county would be worth $40,000 in a rural farm town in ohio or kansas. In neighborhood in cities such as new york a little apartment with two bedrooms for sale for 2 mil. worth $15,000 in ohio or Kansas. My point is price realy dosen’t matter what matters is the PRICE OF LAND. A 600 acre farm in the county sells cheap. 600 acres of land in Nassau county would cost $12,000,000,000 at 2 mill/Acre which is what land in nassau county is selling for. Its the same for kennilworth in IL and California Small ocean front properties cost millions of dollars.

    Comment by Chris — August 4, 2005 @ 4:42 am

  80. Hey, I think it would be more interesting if we argue about the top 10 richest towns in america.
    Heres my list

    1. Kenilworth, Il
    2. Brookville, Ny
    3. Aspen, CO
    4. Jupiter Island, Fl
    5. Sands Point, Ny
    6. Greenwich ,Ct
    7. Harding, Nj
    8. Rolling hills, Ca
    9. Bridgehampton, Ny
    10. Oyster Bay Cove, NY

    Comment by Jackie — August 6, 2005 @ 7:12 pm

  81. $500,000 for 1 acre and a nice house? A little house in Bergen county, NJ is around $400,000. And thats cheap. Pretty much everything is no less than $700,000…and thats just a house, not a big house. But i guess thats because its so close to NYC.

    Comment by Kate — August 9, 2005 @ 5:26 pm

  82. Ok all you people areo ut of your mind I am from fRanklin LAkes NJ one of teh richest towns in bErgen County very comparable to SAddle River and ALpine . My best freinds dad is the CEO of the biggest accounting firm in the world and many people in Franklin ALes are well of it hold an annual household income of 210,000 a yr according to centruy 21 .com . SAddle Rvier and ALpine are the only two towns that beat Franklin LAkes . MAny affluent people have houses in FL Alpine and Saddle River Richard Gere the actor lives 2 minutes from me , P Diddy lives in ALpine , Willie Randoplph the manager of the Ny York Mets baseball team lives near me , Katherine Zeta Jones has a house here , Tara Ried lives in Wyckoff whichs is a town away , Gary Sheffield NY Yankees player lives in ALpine , Eve the rapper lived 2 blocks away , Russel Simmons has a house in Saddle River along with rappers DMX ,Lil Kim , and Ja Rule . There is no way Bergen County NJ is not one of the richest counties in AMerica . And School are great here my school is one of the top in the state . When you go down teh Essex and union County then it beigns to get scummy . Northern Bergen , Morris , and the rural towns in Hutnerdon are by far the richest in AMerica. The Quality of living here is excellent i think my towns has not had a murder in 15 years .

    Comment by JOhn — August 11, 2005 @ 12:16 pm

  83. ok I live in Great Falls, Virgina. It is a really rich place to live with lots of trees (sort of like a beautiful, private place to live) and many of the wealthy adults work at the White House in washington DC which is about 30 minutes away~.. you will see lamborghinis and ferraris and bentleys..hmm..maybe everyday, but you WILL atleast see those if you are here.

    the good thing about great falls is that while many other rich towns have their big houses..and the little ones.. great falls Also HAS huge houses AND the rest are over one million. so im saying great falls has the big houses and the medium ones which, overpopulates OTHER towns that have their BIG houses and the SMALL ones. So, everyhouse basically in great falls is big..atleast above average. its like a rule here that every house built has to be atleast over 1 million lol.

    anyways it really is a beautiful place to live and i am happy to be wealthy in a place like this :)

    Comment by Amy — August 12, 2005 @ 7:00 pm

  84. okay-that someonw was right when they said it is based around the major cities and the complete income averaged with all the people living in the county. i learned in my geography class IN THE BOOK, that the top 3 richest counties were the OC, Westchester NY and Dupage county.

    Comment by Bill — August 12, 2005 @ 8:19 pm

  85. I am the president of Prudential real-estate. We have branches all over the US. I saw this blog and asked some of my top executive to make a list of which towns sold for the highest prices last year. Then we found out which counties they are in. I will give the list of the top 10 town and counties.
    Richest Towns-
    1.Wilton, CT
    2.Jupiter Island, FL
    3.Sands Point, NY
    4.Bridgehampton, NY
    5.Palos Verdes Estates, CA
    6.New York, New York
    7.Kings Point, NY
    8.Alpine, NJ
    9.Purchase, Ny
    10.Westport,CT

    Richest Counties
    1.Fairfield, CT
    2.Westchester, Ny
    3.Marin, CA
    4.Bergen, NJ
    5.New York, New York
    6.Orange, Ca
    7.Lake, IL
    8.Nassau, NY
    9.Morris, NJ

    Comment by Earl — August 24, 2005 @ 5:40 pm

  86. look i live in the north bx, an avg house there is around 600k (country club, bx) i am near the hutchinson pkwy and the throggsneck bridge. yes long island has veeeery nice areas and wealthy. i have family out there. i also have family in westchester. trust me, westchester, especialy central/upper westcherster has got the goods. once again, i have seen brookville, and other beautifull areas of nassau. but i’ll take scarsdale, bronxville (among the richest towns in the country), purchase, chapaqua, briar cliff manor, etc. most people i know can’t afford westcherster and move to nassau. nassau also has more bad areas such as union dale, roosevelt, hempstead is horrific, west hempstead, part of westbury i saw looked like panama during the invasion, brent wood, few other areas. westchester does not have as many bad areas and the areasthat are bad are not as bad as hempstead, brentwood, etc.
    as far as the who’s who list…..
    billy joel lives on the island b/c he’s from the island (like springsteen probably lives in NJ…..i am not knocking jersey by the way, beautiful areas…..but he grew up in NJ and his family and friends are in NJ, so he lives in NJ)
    billy joel is half italian and originally is from pelham pkwy, the bronx…..if his parents never devorced (his mom is from nassau), like most italians/jews from the bx yrs ago, he most likely would live in westchester or fairfield…..howard stearn also grew up in LI (in a bad area too) and j-lo…..before she was w/ mark anthony and was w/ p-diddy, she lived in westchester. my cousin saw j-lo’s house in brookville, i showed him p-diddy’s new house in purchase. he said you could fit j-lo’s house about 3 x inside p-diddy’s (18million$)
    westchester has a nice list as well…..half the knicks live there…..many of the yankees, martha stewart moved there when she was the richest woman in the world (and i wouldn’t consider her poor now, only worth a couple hundred million now i think). the clintons chose upper westchester as there home when they scammed to get hillary in for Ny senate, and donald trump finally got his wish. he has been dieing to build in westchester and got approved to build trump luxory hi rise condo’s in new rochelle and white plains (white plains was hi on the list as best places to live in the us)…..nassau is nice, veeery nice…..but westchester has got it. problem w/ half the people on that side of the bridge…..they almost never go anywhere except on that island or the city.
    i also agree that rockland county is awsome…..a few more yrs, that place will be hard to touch

    Comment by gene — August 24, 2005 @ 7:35 pm

  87. Hey Carl, this is Eliza again,
    If you still have any more questions for me just email me at jettsetter04@yahoo.com

    Comment by Eliza — August 27, 2005 @ 8:56 pm

  88. I live in Suffolk County (Long Island) NY in the town of Bridgehampton. I’m surprised that Nassau didn’t makie the list becausethere is not a house in this county for under a million (well except for a few poor areas). Suffolk is the home of many rich celbrities like Billy Joel and Jerry Sienfeld. There are also notoriously rich towns like the Hamptons, Riverhead, Montaulk, and many others

    Comment by Brian — September 1, 2005 @ 9:51 pm

  89. Gene I agree with you that westchester is veeerrrry rich and so is nassau. Rockland county probably is the next westchester.

    Billy joel Dose not live in suffolk county he sold his mansion to Jerry sienfeld in Sagaponat, Ny (which is in sounthampton) He Moved to Centre Island, NY and bought a 28 Million dollar mansion. He is not from the bronx he is from Hicksville, NY and I went to Hicksville high school with him. We used to ride motorcycles and go to the East Village Green Bar. I am still friends with him and visit him. He lived on Scooter Lane.

    Comment by Chris — September 5, 2005 @ 8:50 pm

  90. Please go to this

    http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/30/pf/city_county_rankings/

    Comment by InfoChic — September 7, 2005 @ 4:21 am

  91. The richest counties
    Top per-capita incomes among U.S. counties with population of more than 1 million:
    New York $90,901
    Santa Clara, Calif. $55,157
    Middlesex, Mass. $46,070
    Oakland, Mich. $45,872
    Nassau, N.Y. $45,831
    King, Wash. $45,536

    Source: U.S. Department of Commerce

    Like a lot of people have mentioned the size of the county is very relevant. It’s easy to be the “richest county” when it’s a little county.

    Also as far as cities and counties… some rankings like to use the median or average HOME VALUE rather than median or average income. I know I’d feel richer living in an $850,000 home and making $180,000 a year than someone in a $1.2mil dollar APARTMENT and making $150,000 with debt up to his eyeballs lol. The home value stat is interesting too I gues but not really relevant. I know I wouldn’t want to live in an overpriced cramped little NYC apartment. No way, give me the big house with the 8 car heated/ac garage an indoor pool like some of my neighbors had here where I grew up in Michigan. You see a lot of these lists based on home value rather than people’s actual incomes in newspapers from the overinflated housing markets in CA or the Northeast.

    I grew up in Bloomfield Twp. Michigan… two blocks South of Bloomfield Hills, MI. And two blocks West of Birmingham. We had two Fordmoco Vice Presidents and Chrysler’s Boss at the time Stallkamp within eight houses from us. It’s a very nice Anglo-Saxon area too which I loved. Everyone spoke English :)

    And what’s amazing about Bloomfield Hills/Bloomfield Twp./Birmingham Michigan and the other areas around it is just how huge the swath of wealthy people is in that part of Oakland County. I’ve been to 44 States and every other big urban area and I haven’t seen an area quite like it.

    I plan to move South though to NC… the South is the booming part of the USA now… and you can get an awesome house without getting jacked so bad in property and State income taxes. A lot of Californians are fleeing Cali to States like Nevada and the entire South. Same with us Michigan born and bred. Cali, much of the Northeastern States and Michigan have just ripped people off on taxes for too long and now it’s coming back to haunt them.

    Oakland info From Wikipedia…

    Oakland County, Michigan
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
    Oakland County is a county located in the state of Michigan. As of 2000, the population is 1,194,156. Its county seat is Pontiac. Most of the county is considered to be a part of the Detroit metropolitan area.

    Oakland County is one of the wealthiest counties in the world with its technology center coined “Automation Alley” as a white-collar job center. For this reason it has been dubbed by some to be “the new OC” -a reference to Orange County, California, which has dropped two spots behind it in the rankings. A large influx of German technology investment is scheduled to occur in 2005 and 2006, further bolstering the county’s economy.

    Geography
    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,352 km˛ (908 mi˛). 2,260 km˛ (873 mi˛) of it is land and 92 km˛ (35 mi˛) of it is water. The total area is 3.91% water.

    Wayne County, where the city of Detroit is located, borders Oakland County to the south. The southern boundary is 8 Mile Road, which has been widely known as an unofficial racial dividing line between the largely black city and mostly white suburbs, although this pattern of de facto segregation has lessened somewhat in recent years.

    Demographics
    As of the census of 2000, there are 1,194,156 people, 471,115 households, and 315,175 families residing in the county. The population density is 528/km˛ (1,369/mi˛). There are 492,006 housing units at an average density of 218/km˛ (564/mi˛). The racial makeup of the county is 82.75% White, 10.11% Black or African American, 0.27% Native American, 4.14% Asian American, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.84% from other races, and 1.86% from two or more races. 2.43% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

    There are 471,115 households out of which 32.40% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.20% are married couples living together, 9.50% have a female householder with no husband present, and 33.10% are non-families. 27.30% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.50% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.51 and the average family size is 3.09.

    In the county the population is spread out with 25.20% under the age of 18, 7.20% from 18 to 24, 32.40% from 25 to 44, 23.90% from 45 to 64, and 11.30% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 37 years. For every 100 females there are 95.90 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 92.70 males.

    The median income for a household in the county is $61,907, and the median income for a family is $75,540. Males have a median income of $55,833 versus $35,890 for females. The per capita income for the county is $32,534. 5.50% of the population and 3.80% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 6.50% of those under the age of 18 and 6.50% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

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    Pretty damn nice incomes for a county over one million. It’s an awesome area to live in but the Southern US has the nicest people (and women!) I love it down there. Bye, Bye Northern USA hello Carolinas!

    Comment by Scott A — September 8, 2005 @ 5:20 pm

  92. Okay all you people are in denial. You’ve all herd that the richest areas are California and the New York City area. Everyone knows this!!! When your talking about the richest COUNTY you are talking about all the towns in the county and what the average house value and income is. Just because on town in Michigan is rich dose not meant the rest of the county is rich! Every city has rich and poor areas. In New york city (where i am from) Manhattan is very expensive. Staten island is crappy. Brookline, queens, and The Bronx have nice and bad areas, but the poor parts are expensive compared to other areas in the county. 50 Cent Grew up in Jamaica, Queens. Which is the Ghetto he is always refering to. Jamaica has $400,000-$500,000 Houses which are middle class house prices. Most 3 bedroom apartments in Manhattan are way over a million dollars. Nassau county, NY is VERY RICH. Many towns no houses under a million dollars and some towns have no huses under 5 million dollars! The less expensive towns are 700,000. Everything in new york is expesnive. Gas is the highest in the country $4.78 for regular!!!! Nassau county has the best public schools in the country. A pizza pie cost $18.00!!! Taxes are very high. $1,000,000 house on a half acre of land has $12,000 annual taxes! New yorkers affrod it because they make ALOT of money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We make more so everything cost more. ITs the same for Westchester, Fairfield, CT Somerset,NJ ans Morris, NJ All Suburbs of New York city.

    Comment by Carol — September 9, 2005 @ 4:50 pm

  93. I live in Fairfax, virginia.. when people think of “Virginia” they think of a country place.. even me. yeah. but NORTHERN VA is wayy different.

    we have Washington DC so of course there is alot of rich people who work for the government.

    I just think Fairfax SHOULD atleast be on a list…

    Mclean and Great Falls are rich places to live in, in fairfax county! :)

    btw, it was on the Washington Post that we were the richest cities in america but (I) dont even believe that lol i just think that we are ONE of them… and IFF we actually ARE the richest then whoa…

    Comment by ann — September 10, 2005 @ 9:56 pm

  94. Yeah the thing that makes a lot of counties poor is that even though they might have some rich areas like some parts of nyc, they have some nasty nasty areas like the bronx that totally ruins it. I mean come on Harlem lol?

    King County, WA where I live makes the richest big counties list I see… and I can confirm that we don’t have the ghetto minority areas like NYC does. It’s safe all over. And I don’t have to learn Spanish, Hebrew or Chinese to live in King County.

    I’ve been to Oakland County, Michigan as well and OMG that place has 100′s of square miles of nice cities with almost no poor areas. Amazing; it’s one big golf course lol.

    New Yorkers just need to accept that even though NYC has some nice areas still NYC is just too big of a draw for the World’s poor to really be in the top 10 (or even top 20?) wealthiest areas anymore. Fairfax, VA is also in similary bad shape unfortunately. I read a while back that the school system there was having a huge problem with trying to teach kids that spoke 55 different languages.

    I’ll add that people in VA are way friendlier than New Yorkers. Virginians just have more class than New Yorkers.

    Comment by WashMike — September 13, 2005 @ 7:45 pm

  95. actually california isn’t that nice of a place to live anymore, unfortunately. all of the rich people are moving out now. a lot are going to nevada, some to the southern US

    And to the NYer above don’t confuse you have to pay too much for gas with being rich lol. People in the UK pay that much for gas too and they aren’t all that rich.

    I will say that it is sad to see NYC goin into the dumpster so fast. It was a nice city back in the 50′s. Just too ghetto now.

    Comment by Fortuna — September 13, 2005 @ 7:49 pm

  96. well, i don’t know where alot of people get there info….everywhere i look on the net or talk to people in the biz…..the tops are (in no particular order) fairfield ct-westchester ny- new york ny-marin county ca-and New jersey has 2 or three in the top ten (jersy has got some serious money out there)….
    cali and new york (besides westchester, you have nassau and rockland)keep getting wealthier and more expensive….i’m done and i have seen for myself

    Comment by gene — September 14, 2005 @ 7:21 pm

  97. one more thing about billy joel…..he IS originally from the Bronx…..born william martin joel, 1949…..read it on his website billyjoel.com

    for the other person who said sands point has the most expensive house for sale and all that ($24 million i believe) mariah carey’s house (when she was married) in upper westchester sold for 40 million……martha stewarts house isn’t to far and more enpensive than that
    truth is people……there’s alot of money in this country!

    Comment by gene — September 19, 2005 @ 1:12 am

  98. RITZY 50 ZIP CODES
    Nation’s most affluent ZIP codes based on average income, average net worth and other demographic variables
    Rank ZIP Post office State Area Region 2004 avg. household income 2004 avg. household net worth 2004 pop. 2004 # households Pop. growth rate ’04-’09 Median age Avg. family size Avg. minutes to work
    1 94027 Atherton CA S.F./Sil. Valley W $404,976 $1,374,966 7,598 2,558 0.2% 45 3.1 23
    2 92067 Rancho Santa Fe CA San Diego W $355,898 $1,436,513 4,126 1,489 2.4% 48 3.1 25
    3 19035 Gladwyne PA Philadelphia NE $346,395 $1,339,944 3,959 1,459 0.0% 49 2.9 25
    4 94028 Portola Valley CA S.F./Sil. Valley W $347,860 $1,324,929 6,699 2,532 0.1% 47 2.9 26
    5 10577 Purchase NY New York NE $379,905 $1,276,203 3,860 865 1.0% 29 3.8 30
    6 06883 Weston CT New York NE $320,717 $1,354,242 10,422 3,443 0.5% 41 3.3 42
    7 07620 Alpine NJ New York NE $315,695 $1,362,785 2,270 738 0.5% 45 3.2 38
    8 22066 Great Falls VA Washington NE $308,530 $1,373,383 18,055 5,717 1.2% 42 3.3 32
    9 02493 Weston MA Boston NE $331,516 $1,297,476 11,874 3,973 0.0% 42 3.1 27
    10 11568 Old Westbury NY New York NE $326,511 $1,319,573 4,241 1,060 0.5% 34 3.4 37
    11 60043 Kenilworth IL Chicago MW $352,357 $1,267,145 2,511 800 -0.2% 41 3.4 37
    12 07078 Short Hills NJ New York NE $342,649 $1,272,488 12,771 4,244 0.1% 40 3.3 36
    13 10514 Chappaqua NY New York NE $305,704 $1,292,925 12,500 4,025 0.3% 40 3.3 41
    14 94920 Belvedere/Tiburon CA S.F./Sil. Valley W $282,836 $1,338,694 12,344 5,375 0.3% 47 2.8 33
    15 06840 New Canaan CT New York NE $316,801 $1,263,398 19,698 6,931 0.4% 41 3.3 36
    16 11765 Mill Neck NY New York NE $323,031 $1,238,025 463 159 0.0% 42 3.3 39
    17 92091 Rancho Santa Fe CA San Diego W $273,683 $1,343,427 1,505 755 9.5% 49 2.2 27
    18 10506 Bedford NY New York NE $319,328 $1,210,363 5,805 1,910 0.9% 41 3.3 39
    19 94022 Los Altos CA S.F./Sil. Valley W $280,068 $1,286,810 18,596 7,021 0.3% 47 3.0 23
    20 06831 Greenwich CT New York NE $342,602 $1,197,101 15,060 5,383 0.9% 43 3.1 31
    21 90077 Los Angeles1 CA Los Angeles W $332,009 $1,193,116 9,371 3,658 0.7% 46 2.9 27
    22 60022 Glencoe IL Chicago MW $283,261 $1,257,546 8,440 2,970 -0.1% 43 3.2 33
    23 10504 Armonk NY New York NE $278,668 $1,265,468 7,671 2,531 0.9% 41 3.2 33
    24 06820 Darien CT New York NE $306,873 $1,202,270 19,440 6,526 0.2% 39 3.3 36
    25 07976 New Vernon NJ New York NE $248,923 $1,437,249 549 204 0.5% 47 3.0 29
    26 06880 Westport CT New York NE $278,157 $1,210,606 26,596 9,899 0.5% 43 3.1 39
    27 06897 Wilton CT New York NE $275,605 $1,230,389 17,770 5,975 0.3% 41 3.3 39
    28 01773 Lincoln MA Boston NE $256,841 $1,287,549 5,074 1,968 -0.1% 45 3.0 32
    29 10546 Millwood NY New York NE $293,202 $1,178,213 994 357 0.0% 41 3.0 42
    30 19085 Villanova PA Philadelphia NE $285,875 $1,179,525 9,287 1,957 0.1% 23 3.3 23
    31 10576 Pound Ridge NY New York NE $270,567 $1,205,132 5,309 1,957 0.4% 43 3.0 41
    32 60045 Lake Forest IL Chicago MW $277,990 $1,196,924 22,580 7,612 1.3% 42 3.1 32
    33 94507 Alamo CA S.F./Sil. Valley W $254,098 $1,260,631 15,483 5,288 1.3% 45 3.2 30
    34 90272 Pacific Palisades CA Los Angeles W $259,009 $1,202,843 23,197 9,392 0.7% 45 3.0 28
    35 90210 Beverly Hills CA Los Angeles W $279,360 $1,160,236 23,850 9,702 0.6% 45 3.0 26
    36 90402 Santa Monica CA Los Angeles W $270,336 $1,181,393 12,685 5,656 0.7% 45 3.0 25
    37 07046 Mountain Lakes NJ New York NE $256,772 $1,204,682 4,412 1,382 0.7% 41 3.4 31
    38 11724 Cold Spring Harbor NY New York NE $238,820 $1,291,640 2,505 818 0.5% 41 3.3 39
    39 10580 Rye NY New York NE $297,609 $1,114,388 17,197 6,215 0.3% 39 3.3 34
    40 07021 Essex Fells NJ New York NE $292,690 $1,118,775 1,963 664 0.0% 41 3.3 29
    41 30327 Atlanta2 GA Atlanta S $275,146 $1,152,146 22,359 9,385 1.5% 42 3.0 21
    42 10583 Scarsdale NY New York NE $263,600 $1,169,312 38,096 13,457 0.3% 42 3.2 38
    43 02468 Waban MA Boston NE $252,266 $1,185,028 5,425 1,910 0.2% 46 3.2 26
    44 85253 Paradise Valley AZ Phoenix W $250,420 $1,190,599 19,327 7,553 2.2% 47 2.9 22
    45 98039 Medina WA Seattle W $264,710 $1,150,743 2,909 1,079 -0.1% 43 3.0 20
    46 01770 Sherborn MA Boston NE $244,923 $1,199,863 4,168 1,422 0.0% 42 3.2 35
    47 11797 Woodbury NY New York NE $231,789 $1,246,575 9,184 2,898 0.1% 45 3.2 36
    48 95070 Saratoga CA S.F./Sil. Valley W $243,071 $1,170,589 31,875 11,134 0.4% 44 3.2 27
    49 11030 Manhasset NY New York NE $252,477 $1,130,396 17,346 5,888 0.1% 43 3.2 37
    50 02030 Dover MA Boston NE $285,637 $997,136 5,706 1,905 0.3% 41 3.3 32
    Top 50 as group $293,555 $1,242,827 565,125 201,799 0.7% 42 3.1 32
    USA $67,572 $468,970 295.6 M 111.6 M
    Top 50 as multiple or % of U.S. avg. 4.3 2.7 0.2% 0.2%
    1. Bel Air and Beverly Glen. 2. Buckhead
    “More information: esribis.com
    Source: Data from ESRI; group calculations by Advertising Age’s American Demographics”
    © Copyright 2005 Crain Communications Inc.

    Comment by Eddie — September 26, 2005 @ 4:07 pm

  99. You think, “Boy this must be one wealthy part of town.”

    But is it where they really make the big bucks? See if it makes the list of highest earning zip codes, judged by the percentage of households with incomes above $100,000.

    No. 1 is zip code 60043 in Kenilworth, Illinois.

    According to real estate information provider OnBoard LLC, which created this list based on statistics collected from government and commercial sources earlier this year, nearly 83 percent of Kenilworth households will earn $100,000 in 2004.

    The town just north of Chicago scored several points higher than the runner up, zip code 22039 in the Washington suburb of Fairfax Station, Virginia. More than 79 percent of Fairfax Station households will break the $100,000 barrier this year.

    In third place was zip code 22066, also in Fairfax County, the town of Great Falls, where 78.66 percent of households earned $100,000 or more.

    The only zip from the U.S. heartland to make the top 30 was 66221 in Overland Park, Kansas, outside of Kansas City, which finished 10th at 74.5.

    Surprisingly missing
    Neither 90210, the zip Hollywood made famous, nor any zip code in the posh Los Angeles-area neighborhoods of Brentwood, Bel Air, or Santa Monica made the list, perhaps because these communities are far less homogenous than those that did.

    Peter Goldey, points out that, “Many high income neighborhoods fall out of the top rankings because they share postal delivery with more moderate income communities.”

    Zip code 10021 on the Upper East Side of New York is a case in point. It possibly has more millionaires than anywhere else in the area, if not the country. It borders Central Park and includes stratospherically priced residential streets such as Fifth, Madison, and Park Avenues. The average apartment sells for more than $1 million.

    But it shares the neighborhood with many rental units (most zips in the top thirty had an overwhelmingly homeowner population) and a large number of less affluent residents.

    “Million dollar buildings are side by side with rent stabilized properties housing lower income tenants.” 10021 is not just old money and investment bankers.

    The top performers are very homogenous. Few have any substantial minority population. All were in the suburbs.

    Thirteen of the top thirty, led by Short Hills, New Jersey (76.7 percent), Purchase, New York (75.73), and Bedford, New York (74.82), were in the New York metropolitan area.

    Four of the top thirty were within commuting distance of the nation’s capital and five were in or near San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

    77094 (72.49) was the sole zip to make the list whose boundaries fall within the borders of a major city. But 77094 is at the far western edge of Houston, a city that has grown to nearly 600 square miles (almost twice the size of New York City) by, in part, annexing adjacent suburbs.

    In most other places, this neighborhood would be way out in a separate township.

    Just because household income is high in these places, it doesn’t mean the residents are better off; in many of these zip codes living expensives are very high.

    Comment by Eddie — September 26, 2005 @ 4:11 pm

  100. Top 30 ZIPs With Six-Figure Salaries
    According to CNN Money the chart below shows the top 30 ZIP codes based on the percentage of residents earning $100,000 per year or more.

    If you’re wondering why regions like Beverly Hills and other rich locations around Los Angeles, or regions in Manhattan like the Upper East Side, didn’t make the list, it’s because those ZIPs share residents who are significantly less affluent.

    Here’s the chart:

    60043 Kenilworth, IL 82.92%
    22039 Fairfax Station, VA 79.20%
    22066 Great Falls, VA 78.66%
    94506 Danville, CA 78.24%
    94027 Atherton, CA 78.04%
    07078 Short Hills, NJ 76.70%
    10577 Purchase, NY 75.73%
    94028 Portola Valley, CA 75.56%
    10506 Bedford, NY 74.82%
    66221 Overland Park, KS 74.50%
    92067 Rancho Santa Fe, CA 74.48%
    20854 Potomac, MD 73.53%
    76092 Southlake, TX 73.21%
    10554 Chappaqua, NY 72.90%
    10576 Pound Ridge, NY 72.80%
    08550 Princeton Junction, NJ 72.62%
    77094 Houston, TX 72.49%
    60022 Glencoe, IL 70.91%
    94507 Alamo, CA 70.90%
    95970 Saratoga, CA 70.42%
    08836 Martinsville, NJ 70.33%
    02493 Weston, MA 70.09%
    11568 Old Westbury, NY 70.23%
    06883 Weston, CT 70.09%
    07021 Essex Fells, NJ 70.06%
    07046 Mountain Lakes, NJ 70.05%
    21029 Clarksville, MD 70.00%
    06897 Wilton, CT 69.88%
    19035 Gladwyne, PA 69.80%
    08502 Belle Mead, NJ 69.49%

    Comment by Eddie — September 26, 2005 @ 4:17 pm

  101. GREENWICH CT IS THE RICHEST FUCKIN TOWN EVER… TOM CRUISE TOM HANKS ALL HAVE HOUSES HERE, MY HOUSE IS WORTH 4.7 MILLION AND ITS NOT EVEN THE MOST EXPENSIVE. I GOT A PORSCHE 911 FOR MY 16TH BDAY, NOT BAD. MY DAD DROPS CASH ON ME LIKE CRAZY AND THE DRUG CIRCULATION IN THIS TOWN IS SICK, TOO MUCH MONEY TO SPEND…. IT IS IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY AND THAT LIKE #2 ON THAT LIST, GREENWICH CARRIES IT THO, STAMFORD AND ALL THAT SHIT IN THIS COUNTY IS CRAP, ITS ALL ABOUT GREENWICH.

    Comment by FEFE — October 10, 2005 @ 12:22 am

  102. I live in Kenilworth. It is less than a square mile, and everyone lives in 2 million dollar+ houses.

    Two scenes that you might envision that resemble Kenilworth, or K-town as the residents like to call it:
    1. A small child playing dress up with coach and burberry bags
    2. A pizza boy driving a mercedes
    (These are both surprisingly common.)

    Comment by haley — October 11, 2005 @ 8:30 pm

  103. I live in Loudoun County VA which neighbors Fairfax, and I truly believe that if not for the fact that Fairfax is 30% immigrant the average gross household income would have been well over $100,000…Probably between $110 and 115K, which would have put it at the top of the list. Fairfax has over 1,000,000 residents so the incomes of 300,000+ immigrants will substantially bring the average gross income down. I do not think any of the counties on the list have such large immigrant populations as Fairfax does. But to call this list the richest counties based upon gross household income is somewhat misleading. For one thing, billionaires are the richest people in the world, not to mention the least in number. However, billionaires have estates all over the world. And many of these locations are resort-style places that are known for specific amenities and attractions exclusive to the wealthy elite, (eg.. Middleburg, VA in Loudoun, known as the horse capital of the world, and where several old money billionaires own farms such as Paul Mellon, heir to the Carnegie Mellon fortune, or the Hamptons in upstate New York.) So while one county might have have more billionaires that claim an estate in that county to be their primary residence, which is probably the case with a county with such a small population as Teton, Wyoming, another county could have more billionaires that claim an estate to be just one of their residences. So the question is how do you decide which county is wealthier? But if one determines wealth by the average gross income of working individuals who depend on a paycheck, then I must say that Fairfax,VA should top the list,notwithstanding the large immigrant populace.(although Fairfax has places like Great Falls and Mclean in which several billionaires claim an estate as well, eg.. the Mars family, owners of Mars candy corporation.)The outer suburbs of cities in California and New York City itself might have a higher concentration of millionaires than those outside of D.C. because of the fact that the cities themselves are so much bigger. The square mileage of D.C. is not that big at all. But the economy of the D.C. metropolis is so diverse that it affords for a greater household income of its residents on an average scale. The job base surrounding D.C. is truly the most diverse in the country. The D.C. metro is home to some of the largest private and public corporations in the world, comprising all sectors of industry including high-tech, finance, consultants, defense contractors, bio-tech, general services and many more. D.C. is home to the federal government, and has the third highest concentration of military personnel in the country. The people employed in these industries are well paid high-tech workers, entrepreneurs, scientists, high-ranking government and military officials, CEO’s, investment bankers, diplomats, ambassadors, doctors, lawyers, and politicians. Not to mention the many professors at all the prestigous universities in the area. The only industries that California and New York City have moreso than D.C. to an extensive extent are the entertainment and financial industries. This is largley attributed to Hollywood and Wall Street where the workers are paid millions doing work which for a large part is scandelous and lucrative. The 300,000 or so workers on Wall Street earn just on bonuses an average of $100,000 anually. There must be some rockin parties in the tri-state area around the holidays!( I wont knock the hussle though, that’s the American Way right, after all politicians aren’t all that better.) Fairfax, County is the place where most of these high-paid employers and employees in the D.C. metro happen to live. I’ve seen many Counties and towns in California, Chicago, New York, Florida, Michigan, Georgia and elsewhere. I’ve seen Marin, Fairfield, Bergen, Nassau, Northbrook, Orange, Jupiter Island, and many of those other places mentioned. These are all beautiful places. Northern Virginia may not have all the glitz and glamour that celebrities like Billy Joel, Jlo, or P.diddy bring but it does have a lot of old money whales. And old money is longer than new money, because it’s tied up into so much stuff through philanthropy, charities, non-profits and so forth that the money makes it’s own money. Old money is untraceable. People who have it are billionaires rather than millionaires. It’s hard to say which county or town is wealthier just by looking at them. But I will say that these other places seem to have a heavier concentration of wealth than Fairfax County does. It’s exclusive only to certain parts. The wealth in Fairfax is more spread out. This, along with the fact that there are over 1,000,000 people which compares to some of the largest counties in the nation, and the fact that the economy is so diverse leads me to think that on average, there is more wealth in the county as a whole than any other county in the country.(If measured by average gross adjusted household income.) Well, I think I’ve expounded on this topic enough. These blogs make interesting chatter, although I think some of you take these topics too seriously. Really wealthy people do not have their most lavish estates in this country anyhow. They own their own islands like the ones off the coast of Dubai. Hell some even own their own continent like the investment group that bought Australia. Personally I do not care if one county has more wealth than the other. I am just stating the facts as I see them. On last note, consider this fact: 250 people in the world have just as much money as 40% of the population of the world. Now that’s a hell of a lot of money. You think they are arguing about who has more of what?

    Comment by mike — October 12, 2005 @ 11:08 pm

  104. I am a New Yorker. I was born in Queens and currently live in Oyster Bay, which is in Nassau county. New York only has a few actual poor areas. Some examples are Jamaica, Queen, (the “ghetto” that the rapper 50 cents referes to), South Bronx, Harlem, Spanish Harlem, Hempstead/ Rossevelt, Newark/Jersey City. Thats about it. All the rest of the areas are $600,000+. Many people remeber New York City in the 80′s and early 90′s when it was dirty and full of crime. The city has changed to a safe and very expensive place to live. I is #1 on forbes list for most expensive places to live. San Francisco which is the second most expensive area to live has an median house value or almost $800,000. New York is the most expensvie city to live in, Has the most expensive houses, Has the lowest crime rate int the country, and has the most millionaires in any other city in the world. Don’t belive me go to forbes.com and look for yourself!

    Comment by Kyle — October 14, 2005 @ 9:38 pm

  105. What is goping on with Tenn. Real Estate Prices?
    Why so inflated even beyond the Bubble?

    Comment by Ed Collins — October 17, 2005 @ 9:04 pm

  106. IN RE: FAIRFIELD COUNTY CT -
    GREENWICH IS NOT the only town keeping this county on the list – try NEW CANAAN, DARIEN, WESTON, SOUTHPORT, WESTPORT, NORTH STAMFORD & STAMFORD WATERFRONT, ROWAYTON (NORWALK) ETC. It is all about the oceanfront and back country land in close proximity to NYC. With lower income tax then NY or NJ, and lower property taxes. Never mind the crazy real estate increases. A decent 2 bedroom condo goes for $1M+ Why aren’t those other “Rich” counties on the list? My guess would be those residents declare a state with lower or no income tax as their residence OR are hiding/underreporting their income.

    Comment by S. — October 22, 2005 @ 2:50 pm

  107. WoW, somebody wanna tell me why South Barrington, Illinois and the rest of the Barringtons ain’t up there for richest zip codes…Cause I was just in South Barrington for a World Series party, and all I can say is my mind is blown. That town has some FCUKING BANK bro! No joke, I just partied at the largest home I have ever seen in my fcuking life…Indoor Pool, Outdoor Pool, Indoor basketball court, game room…Nah Nah Nah, my bad, game room is minor to what he had, it was a fcuking arcade…Dude had that golf simulator screen, you no what I’m talking about? and I can’t remember any other shit cause my ass got Fcuked the Fcuk up from that dude’s open bar. I guess the guy with the place tho is one of the top dudes for Motorola. That dudes got one dank ass daughter let me fcuking tell you, supposedly she said she drives a white 745i beem, then she showed us, and damn waz I gone that night.

    Comment by MiKe JoNEs — October 25, 2005 @ 12:55 am

  108. The Barrington area in the northwest suburbs of chicago, which is made up of Barrington, North Barrington, South Barrington, Barrington Hills, Lake Barrington, and Port Barrington, are very wealthy, I have an uncle that stays in Tower Lakes, which is north of North Barrington. But the creme de la crop in Illinois is the North Shore. If you think that the Barringtons are spectacular go and see Lake Forest, Bannockburn, Lincolnshire, Riverwoods, Glencoe, and Winnetka.

    Comment by elle — October 25, 2005 @ 1:44 pm

  109. LOL I’m surprised that no one has mentioned this country’s REKNOWNED, Philadelphia MAIN LINE. One of the oldest and RICHEST areas in the entire country. Look up Gladwyne PA, 19035- ranked #3 in the country last year. I live there and a neighbor of mine just bought a 5+ million dollar house, demolished it, and built a 50,000 sq. ft. mega house running nearly $20million +. Not to mention all of the other old stone estates worth tens of millions and other enourmous new homes. All of you so far from what I’ve read talk about NEW MONEY. Come to the Main Line, some of the houses date back to 1690 and the 1700′s- a seat of aristocracy. Yea maybe there are alot of G-Wagens, Rolls Royces, Carrera GTs, Ferrari’s, etc… But the thing that seperates this area from all those other areas is the class. Anyone can build a 3 million dollar house, hell someone mention a 1 acre ranch in Fairfax for 500k? LOL Sounds like the bargain of the century, each acre of land in Gladwyne is valued at close or more than $1 million depending on what the lot layout is (keep in mind its a very hilly area). 500k for a ranch will get you a house about 25 miles from the city!

    Comment by Jim — November 2, 2005 @ 7:17 pm

  110. I live in Morris County and it is rich pretty much everywhere. People all drive sick cars and basically New Jersey is proven to be one of the one of the richest sates in America. Everyone who rips on NJ is just dumb because all they see is Newark which is really the only bad place in New Jersey. No one has any idea how rich New Jersey is and we could pretty much buy any person who rips on New Jersey so they should just shut up. It’s a sick place to live with tons of money and I don’t know how people can rip on new jersey for being scummy when it has 7-8 of the richest counties in America and southern NJ counties are ubeleivably nice too with the NJ shore. It is amazing here and it is one of the safest paces in the world so people who rip on us are jealous of how rich we are and we could just buy their jealous life.

    Comment by Dave — November 4, 2005 @ 12:09 am

  111. one of the posts i read is exactly right. You people from the midwest needs to stop with these false accusations of you guys being the richest counties. First of all, your houses may be gorgeous but land is what you pay for. New York City is the center for the world, therefore, naturally it’s suburbs are going to be the richest. Im sure in Michigan and other midwest states you could by a 10 million dollar sprawling mansion on several acres but in Fairfield County that will give you a quarter of an acre of beach front property. It just makes sence. Michigan may have the huge houses, and California may have the celeberites and their mansions, but Fairfield County is home to the owners of the big corporations such as pricline, queen of mean real estate heiress leona helmsely, and billionaire hedgfunders like steve cohen. ( just to name a few and all of which were located in the top 100 of the 400 richest americans list)

    Comment by tj — November 8, 2005 @ 5:25 pm

  112. I think all you yuppies make me sick. I wanted to check this list because I was curious. But what I read was unbelievable. Everyone argueing over who is the richest. Give me a break. I grew up in Hamilton County, IN. but I was not rich in the slightest. I got to see all the yuppies everyday though, when a 16 year old kid who can barely drive gets a BMW from mommy and daddy to drive to school. You people don’t realize priorities. But just so you know. While you were making all that money away on buisness trips and negleting your kids, I was the one home with your daughter teaching her knew things. lol

    Comment by Chris — November 11, 2005 @ 9:45 am

  113. Highlands Ranch is real nice. Its pretty nice growing up in the 7th richest county in america while only being 13. i used to live with my dad in Bear County, San Antonio, Texas and he didnt have much money. Now that i live here i haven’t seen any homelss people which is prob why beverly hills and all those counties aren’t int he top ten

    Comment by Kyle — November 13, 2005 @ 1:24 am

  114. Living in NJ I’m not surprised. Even in crappy counties like Essex we have nice areas like Short Hills, Millburn, Glen Ridge, Upper Montclair but we also have Crappy Newark bringing the income down! here’s a chart I found..

    1 Fairfax County, VA $83,975
    2 Somerset County, NJ $84,892
    3 Morris County, NJ $83,583
    4 Montgomery County, MD $82,971
    5 Howard County, MD $82,065
    6 Nassau County, NY $78,762
    7 Prince William County, VA $77,678
    8 Monmouth County, NJ $77,223
    9 Rockland County, NY $75,306
    10 Santa Clara County, CA $74,509
    11 Fairfield County, CT $73,110
    12 Chester County, PA $72,288
    13 Suffolk County, NY $71,956
    14 McHenry County, IL $71,153
    15 Bergen County, NJ $70,957
    16 Norfolk County, MA $70,903
    17 Lake County, IL $70,347
    18 Middlesex County, NJ $70,344
    19 DuPage County, IL $70,174
    20 Westchester County, NY
    p.s. Mntgomery County, MD I LOADED!! HELLO!!! CHEVY CHASE! BETHESDA ANDD POTOMAC!!

    Comment by Terence — November 13, 2005 @ 7:34 pm

  115. I am from West Bloomfield, MI near other cities like Birmingham and Beverly Hills. Everyone there knows Cranbrook. $20,000 a semester for tuition. People in my area get suburbans for Halloween and one parent works, everyone has like a malibu, lexus, convertible, etc. They go on vacations like all the time. They have private summer homes in France, like me. As of two weeks ago, Oakland County, CA was the richest county; Oakland County, MI was second; and Oakland County, NJ was third. What ever happened to that list. Everyone near me has five six cars that are all only kept for no longer than a few months. Several million dollar homes. Blue Ribbon high schools. 1,000 that we carry in our wallets. I have four credit cards. Our parents pay for all of our shit. Why aren’t we up there.

    Comment by Reece — November 14, 2005 @ 1:56 am

  116. TO ALL THOSE BERGEN COUNTY PEOPLE WHO SPEND TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR COMPUTERS, AND NOT ENOUGH TIME GETTING AN EDUCATION.
    Hey guys whats going on? I just wanted to add my two sense to the posts that you worked on so hard. You have to be off your rocker if you honestly think that Bergen County is wealthier than Morris County. The reason why all these so called “Superstars” live in Bergen County is because it is out in the middle of nowhere. They go to Bergen County to seek the privacy which they have been deprived of all of their carrers. I currently live in Morris County in probably the wealthiest town inside the county, (you can probably guess what town that is, Heres a clue its only 2.5miles long) and I have a very succesfull Uncle who lives in Bergen Counry and he has told me that the land in Bergen County isn’t even worth the dirt theses Million Dollar houses are built on! Morris County’s property value is far superiour to that of Bergen County because of the sole fact that it is more industrialized than Bergen County. I don’t know what you Bergen County People are doing out in the middle of nowhere but lets get the facts straight before we start making false accusations OK Thanks! Oh and By the Way if I sold my house in Morris COunty I too could move to a 3-5 Million dollar Crib in BC that all of you are so infatuated with.

    Comment by Steve — November 15, 2005 @ 9:53 pm

  117. only one mention of johnson county kansas we dont have any celebs but we are very well off even poor people are rich
    even rappers like me are rich check it out some time thanks for ur time

    Comment by joe snipes — November 17, 2005 @ 8:04 pm

  118. Well when it comes down to Bergen Vs. Morris County I defintely think Morris is probably overall wealthier with towns like Mountain Lakes, Randolph, Madison, and Denville. Bergen County has many nice towns but it also has not-so-good areas like Hackensack and N. Arlington.

    Comment by T — November 18, 2005 @ 6:59 pm

  119. yup i love to be a member ok since i heard about ur group.

    Comment by solomon — November 19, 2005 @ 10:28 am

  120. Does anyone know how I would be able to get a list of all the celebrities who live in the greenwich, ct area.
    Please e-mail to termee9@yahoo.com

    Comment by Erik — November 21, 2005 @ 2:27 pm

  121. I just moved recently from Rancho Santa Fe, Ca to Mendham, NJ and I can say Morris County is by far one of the most beautiful places in the country. The houses are huge, the people friendly, and the land clean and green with still lots of woods. The schools are also top notch and my wife and young son seem to love it.

    Comment by Joe — November 28, 2005 @ 5:04 pm

  122. Ok I live in oakland county, and trust me it is rich. I probably live in a more ‘poor’ part of it, and the smallest houses have 3 bedrooms. I always thought that it was the 2nd richest county? Thats what all of our teachers have been telling us.

    Comment by Kriss — November 28, 2005 @ 11:36 pm

  123. What towns are located in Oakland County?

    Comment by PAco!?! — November 29, 2005 @ 7:12 pm

  124. Okay. Not once have I heard anyone say a thing about Delaware County, Penssylvania. Pretty damn rich, bitches. You see, a girl who goes to a local private exclusive school was in the movie, Spanglish, that came out in summer. And ya know M. Nite Shaymalan? The one who did Signs, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, etc? Well he lives right here in Delaware County. Also, the president of Comcast sends his children to the same exclusive private school. My county is home ot Gladwyne, PA, one of the richest towns in AmErica. The Suburbs of Philadelphia (mostly Delaware County) is referred to as the Main Line, where rich, preppy, good-looking, polo-sporting people live, work, and go to school.

    Comment by Mike — December 2, 2005 @ 8:53 pm

  125. ALSO, this is the guy from Delaware County, ya know that same private school? Mutumbo sends his kids there. Ive seen them! Beat that biatches.

    Comment by Mike — December 2, 2005 @ 8:58 pm

  126. It’s wonderful how many rich people there are in the United States and it’s actually stunning. No, I am not envious, jealous, or anything of that nature, but I have one question… ” ARE YOU ALL HAPPY?” Does money lift your spirits and would you all be able to function if you didn’t have as much money? God bless all of you and hopefully you all share your blessings because I know once I become rich I will. Someday soon you’ll hear about me just remember, I am that little black girl from Detroit who grew up in a low-class neighborhood who attended a Detroit Public Schools who was granted the opportunity to go to college and work my way to the top. I am currently in the process of doing so. My mom makes 47,000 a year which will tripled by the time I graduate from University of Michigan, and I too will be able to join this conversation on which rich county I reside in. Only, I will brag about how much I GIVE to those who are not as wealthy. God Bless.

    Comment by igotnext — December 3, 2005 @ 11:52 pm

  127. I live in Fairfax County Virgina. If there is a place richer than this, tell me and ill be there. Jobs are impossible not to have. I have turned jobs down and worked 2 jobs at a time. Not to have a job in Fairfax County is just pure laziness. Everyone has expensive cars and million dollar homes. The public school system is one of the top in the country. It is business and computer central. People here have money to burn which means there is plenty to make. At the high schools, the student parking lot has nicer cars than the teacher parking lot! I love living here and i’ll never leave. No matter what anyone says Fairfax County is #1.

    Comment by Bill Smith — December 6, 2005 @ 2:21 am

  128. I live in Somerset County, Green Brook to be exact and there is no way that we are that rich. I live in a $400,00 home and drive two toyota’s. Although there are some very very rich parts in my county there is no way we are 4th.

    Comment by Chris — December 7, 2005 @ 4:10 pm

  129. Everyone is right about Rockland County, NY. I *was* looking to buy because Clarkstown (in Rockland) was ranked as the #2 safest place in the nation, but prices for new homes in the Clarkstown area started at over a million and there were no listings for under $500,000. I see the next Westchester slowly brewing.

    Comment by Josh — December 9, 2005 @ 2:53 am

  130. Chris your in Green Brook right? Go over to Watchung, Warren, Basking Ridge, and Bernardsville and then say Somerest County isnt rich

    Comment by coconut — December 9, 2005 @ 12:34 pm

  131. I live in union county nj, which is right next to morris county and somerset county. These places are UNBELIEVABLY rich. first off, ANYWHERE in jersey/nyc area its normal to see mercedes, bmw, lexus, acura, cars constantly. everyone rocks designer gear, chanel gucci louis vuitton, armani on the daily. Even thought there are alot of bad areas near where i live (Newark, Elizabeth, Hillside, Roselle, Jersey City, Linden, Rahway, Plainfield,Irvington, East Orange) alot of UNION AND ESSEX counties are EXTREEEMYLY wealthy. For instance, the Short Hills section of Millburn(right next to my town, Springfield) is unreal. CEO’s and mobsters are all over the place, and once downtown Millburn i saw a Lamboughini Diablo and a Bentley Contintental within a span of 5 minutes. So dont always categorize areas based on the county, although union and essex is almost half urban/bad areas, MANY areas in union and essex county are as rich and richer than the average morris/somerset towns. for example (Westfield, Verona, West Caldwell, Summit, Cranford, Roseland, West Orange, Glen Ridge, Mountainside, Millburn, Short Hills, South Orange, Maplewood, etc etc) I know of a CEO of a company that lives in South Orange and pays 45,000 dollars a year PROPERTY TAX because he has an amazing house that overlooks NYC) Thats ridiculous, all you MIDWEST PEOPLE, go suck cock, what does your house overlook, a cornfield???

    Comment by Mikey — December 12, 2005 @ 12:45 am

  132. For starters this thread is ludicrous. Can was accept the fact that every area in America has wealthy towns? Jesus, we are one of the richest countries in the WORLD! If you take a Saddle River, NJ mansion and plop it in Winnetka, IL…will anyone know the difference? Um, I think not. You guys are really splitting hairs here. Affluent communities in the US are a dime a dozen. I grew up in Bergen County, NJ (Woodcliff lake) and I now live in Chester County, PA (Chester Springs) I can honestly say the homes here are just as enormous as the ones in Nj; the cars are just as extravagant and the shopping is just as expensive…(King Of Prussia Mall…hello!) All of you seem to have different information which can’t all be right, it makes no sense. Anyway, I just felt compelled to comment…Thank you.

    Comment by Jeff — December 16, 2005 @ 12:16 am

  133. [Host's note. Since this is dangerously close to spam, I've broken all the outbound links. If you want this crap, you're going to have to work for it.]

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    It’s going on 4:36 a.m. – I’m burnt and have my answer … don’t look through two eyes … see through 3 … For a look at the Devastation of Asia and Europe go to http://theleagueofrockers .com/page_300141.htm and as you read it note I accurately foretold of the kid in the Mid-West who went off with a gun at school last spring, of the beginning of Tornado Season, of the surge on the Spanish Border near Algeria, of the Cyclone Season, and all though a couple of weeks off, the French Youth Rioting … something I wrote would happen in March.

    Yes indeed, you look at “Wealth” as coin which will canker. How much would it be worth to you if you could what is going to happen in Africa in March for example … even though Heinz-Kerry is a Skull ran organization does not mean they can stop a tsunami … the best any can do under such circumstances is recognize it and haul ass out of the way … and there will most certainly be a flood of violence which is going to rock the quadrant of Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea … hence the price of Ketchup, Pizza Sauce hence Pizza and such items will go up in cost therefore price over the following months….

    Mikey is going on about Girls with handbags by Gucci … Mikey, Little Brother it is time to grow up … like I said, you are checking out the designer clothes and Gucci bags but I do not follow trends, me and mine set them … from Modeling Agencies to ANR Reps, Labels, Video Production Companies, Publishers and even my share of “Friends in the Business” in ITALY TOO as you can see by going to http://theleagueofrockers .com/page_11023.htm

    While my Dad was touring the worked I was at home just wishing … it sounds like most on this site consider themselves affluent or with affluent friends so I encourage you to do something with that affluence instead of wasting your bodies and minds hence souls …. just because you drive a Beemer does not make you better than a farm boy who drives a tractor as the farm boy can survive without you but you most certainly cannot survive without that which the farm brings to you, food!!!!!

    I’m not going to preview this for mistakes, I’m sure they are there/here/whatever ….

    James II-A Servant of GOD & The Lord Jesus Christ

    Comment by James II — December 16, 2005 @ 8:08 am

  134. I live in the South Orange- Maplewood area. Like Mikey said it is very wealthy in Essex County along the Morris border but since Newark is in our county and East Orange Essex didnt make it :( But a lot of town like West Orange and even my town South Orange have bad areas..

    Comment by Kim — December 16, 2005 @ 4:53 pm

  135. i live in Fairfax County and i dont care wat no one says Centreville iz so rich richer than evry1 on this k second

    Comment by Jessica — December 16, 2005 @ 5:00 pm

  136. The things you people are basing wealth on is extremely wrong. Material objects mean ZERO! Hell, any Jane, Dick or Johnny can save up (or waste money) on some objects from Gucci or Fendi; and many people can afford lexus’s and Audi’s….as far as “huge homes” go, i’m sorry, but many people who owne these large homes are in severe debt and live in that debt just to show tangible wealth. Basiclly, they may have showy items, yet if you dive into his or her savings, you’ll see nothing! This is why many of these counties that youd think are extremely rich, are really not. (or not as great as they seem at least.) EXAMPLE: I have a friend right here in Chester Springs, (one of the wealthiest towns in one of the wealthiest counties in PA) Her dad has a Benz SL55, mom has a Jaguar xj8 and almost all the TV’s in her enormous home are projector screen. Even she has confessed that her family is in severe debt from all this spending. From the outside her life looks great, yet it’s really not. Thats why many times the towns that don’t flaunt it to the extreme are the ones with the higher zip code.

    Comment by Jeff — December 17, 2005 @ 1:53 am

  137. i dont actually live in america. i live in australia. i like to look at houses on the net in usa just to see how expensive houses are and to compare them to houses in aus. i dont really know wat i am talking bout lol with these like counties and stuff but one place that i came across that seemed a really expensive area is New Canaan CT. i dont kno if it has been mentioned or wateva so yer

    Comment by nat — December 18, 2005 @ 3:15 am

  138. New Canaan, Greenwich, Westport and Darien are all part of Fairfield County, located right outside NYC. Very, very, very affluent area. (Small fact, both versions of THE STEPFORD WIVES was filmed in New Canaan, Ct.)

    Comment by Jeff — December 19, 2005 @ 12:00 am

  139. haha thanx for the help jeff. having counties is way too confusing

    Comment by nat — December 19, 2005 @ 8:10 am

  140. I live in Rancho Santa Fe and I believe my county HAS to be the richest(San Diego)

    Comment by Cat — December 19, 2005 @ 8:22 pm

  141. I am 20 years old, and I live in Overland Park, KS. Johnson County, KS is definitely somewhere in the Top 10.

    Comment by Jeremy — December 21, 2005 @ 2:24 am

  142. Yah Californias rich especially Rancho Sante Fe and faifax Virginia is Rich too My girlfriend sells real eestate there! Shes rich and her husband is a vice pres of a telephone co. SO WHAT! I live by the beach in Southern California by Rolling Hills and PV estates grew up here it is not a big thing about being rich not many kitchens are bigger than 28×20 anyway oh yah and grand foyers and 100,000 bentleys are nice.. money is great but I wouldnt trade my 12 year old mutt for any of the millions to all the rich people god bless you and the poor people too! you all sound nuts I have no problem living a life I want to live if its rich poor or in between I am happy with myself and my life rich or not rich!

    Comment by Nancy — December 22, 2005 @ 11:31 pm

  143. Many people that live in my area live the “wealthy” life. I live in Upper Montclair, NJ a nice little NYC suburb. NJ has many good high schools but Montclair High isn’t that good so many kids in the area go to Lacordaire, Montclair Kimberley Academy, or Seton Hall Prep. Many people have nannies and on weekends go to many of the upscale retsaraunts in the town’s square. There are a lot of doctors and buisness people who take the nice trains to New York City for their job. Many houses have SPECTACULAR views of NYC, but most sell for around a million. The only problem here is that the public schools aren’t that good. But the private schools are top notch.

    Comment by Cat — December 24, 2005 @ 12:47 pm

  144. I live in Montgomery County, Maryland, and it is without a doubt one of the richest counties in America guarenteed… And it’s also one of the weirdest… but that’s another story

    Comment by matt — January 1, 2006 @ 11:23 pm

  145. Oh yeah I heard of Montclair Kimberley Academy!! They had MADONNA come and read a children’s book there!

    Comment by Mel — January 1, 2006 @ 11:50 pm

  146. Yea chris i live in green brook too. do u realize that gloria gainer lives in our town. Yea u no the song i will survive. Bro u have no clue idk where u live in gb but go up to fairway and jason street we got money up there. plus down the mountain gb isnt bad u gotta understand how expensive it is to live here

    Comment by timoni — January 2, 2006 @ 8:19 pm

  147. I live in Morris County NJ!

    When you say you live in a rich town, you have to consider ALL parts of your county. Almost all parts of morris county are wealthy, but there are still sections that are not as well off. In general, the entire county does pretty well.

    Small suburbs in Kansas, California, Texas can be wealthy, but think about the entirety of the COUNTY.

    Even though you may live in the most expensive town in your state, the land values that are in New Jersey don’t even exist or compare to other states.

    Comment by Jeff — January 3, 2006 @ 10:06 pm

  148. Well im from somerset, nj/franklin park, nj, the center of somerset county and i go to franklin high school, the second biggest in nj and cost around 66 million. We are truly a rich county, we definetly have our ghetto parts in somerset but everyone has money. Im not even legal to drive yet and I own a bmw and my parents(business owners) have 4 paid for cars. Our houses are expensive in somerset/franklin park. Now wonder were top 10.

    Comment by Justin — January 9, 2006 @ 6:57 pm

  149. WOW, SOME OF YOUR COMMENTS ON HERE SOUND SO CONCEITED AND RIDICULOUS. ACTUAL WEALTHY PEOPLE, YOU KNOW THE ONES THAT ARE HUMBLE AND DOWN TO EARTH, DO NOT FLAUNT LIKE THIS. FOR EXAMPLE, LOOK AT REBA MCENTIRE OR JULIA ROBERTS. I HARDLY EVER SEE THEM DISPLAYING THEIR WEALTH IN A GAWDY OR SNOBBY FASHION. PEOPLE KNOW THEY ARE RICH, BUT LOVE THEM LIKE THEIR FRIENDLY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR. IT JUST GOES TO SHOW YOU THAT RICH ASSHOLES AND POOR ASSHOLES REALLY DO ACT THE SAME.

    Comment by Oprah Winfrey — January 10, 2006 @ 12:24 am

  150. i agree with the people who posted the information a little ways above about the north suburbs of chicago. i am from vail colorado. i have been to the o.c. long island, and northern new jersey, but i have never seen anything like the towns north of chicago. i went to visit some relatives in winnetka and that place is just gorgeous. it was really just the little things like the cobblestoned roads, and small narrow winding streets that winded around wooded bluffs over looking lake michigan, stone covered bridges, and the old world gas lit street lamps that dotted every single street. it really reminded me of something you would see out of england. and i won’t even go into the homes(mcmansions). my cousin took me down this street called, i think it was called sheridan. it stretched all the way from the northern chicago city limits all the way to the wisconsin border, all along hugging the lake. this was where the most spectacular houses were. that road had to be at least almost 40 miles long and the whole time it was dotted with old mansions. i think there is no other place in the united states that just has 40 miles of just non stop affluence. oh there was this place called lake forest that look like the residences were smaller renditions of the palace of versailles. the only other towns that i think are competition to the north shore of chicago are the affluent towns of connecticut, like new canaan and greenwich.

    Comment by Paola — January 10, 2006 @ 1:03 am

  151. anyone know of any wealthy towns in Hawaii? Preferably on Oahu or Maui

    Comment by coco — January 11, 2006 @ 8:42 pm

  152. Hey, Paola, i was one of the people that posted the above information about the chicagos north shore. My name is Carl,the person who used to live in Northbrook. you are right about all your above information. i know what you mean, i used to have relatives who would come visit me in northbrook, and i would drive them down lake cook road, onto sheridan, and they would just be in awe at the towns. not only because of the obvious wealth of the towns, but because of the beuty and charm that these towns have. i mean, you could visit most other rich towns in america, and they would just look like any old other rich towns, but the north shore towns are all unique in their own way. out of all the north shore towns, i would have to say my favourite town is probably winnetka. then wilmette would come to a close second. the thing i like about these towns as well as other north shore towns is that you still live in a huge house but they are still right next door to each other like many other ordinary suburban neighborhoods. so from this, you have the good life with the ordinary town feel. like people in winnetka actually know their neighbors and are like everyone else in a way. Except for the snobby teenagers. maybe one day you should pass by new trier high school in Winnetka and see the student parking lot. It looks like the executive parking lot of a fortune 500 company.
    anyway, i have moved back to illinois from michigan and am now living in burr ridge with my dad. If you ever get a chance again, you should visit the north shore again. Im not sure when the last time you were there, but the towns are starting to change a lot. people are starting to tear down a lot of the old mansionsand building newer and in some cases bigger houses than before.

    from carl

    Comment by carl — January 11, 2006 @ 8:46 pm

  153. My North Shore favorites are
    1. Kenilworth
    2. Glencoe
    3. Winnetka
    I have an uncle that stays in kenilworth, that town is gorgeous, i love the entrance into kenilworth off of sheridan road coming from Wilmette. My cousin and some of my best friends went to New Trier. I stay in Wilmette, in New Trier township but my parents made me go to Loyola Academy(said they had a drug problem at New Trier, which they do). Its true everyone their is the same, very snooty and what not. I like glencoe second to kenilworth. i have traveled a lot and Glencoe has to be the most beautiful town i have ever seen. It is actually very eerie how beautiful that town is that i wouldn’t even want to live there. And there is not that much to say about Winnetka of course but if you live in the chicacoland area or not from chicago and ever come visit make it a must to drive through that town. (The guy from burr ridge) i know what you mean about the people tearing down the old mansions and building larger ones. My uncle that lives in Kenilworth, said that one of his neighbors actually bought out another neighboring house that was scheduled for demolition by its new owners for about 4 to 5 million dollars. He said he saved it because the house was on the national historic register because it was built by some famous architect back in the early 1900s. My uncle said that the majority of the residents are pissed because people could just tear down these historic residences and build over them. The guy who bought the house was just going to renovate and restore it. But to me in some cases it is understandable because i don’t know if your familiar with kenilworth, but west kenilworth by indian hill golf course, the homes are tiny, and when i say they are small they’re actually small, my guest house is bigger than some of those houses, but they are worth in the millions. who is going to pay millions of dollars for a house as small as a garage, not me unless i am going to tear it down a build a bigger one.

    Comment by eddie — January 12, 2006 @ 12:35 am

  154. Some of you have to realize that some of the information is a bit skewed. Counties largely vary by size. This is largely why these lists aren’t purely dominated by California counties..because some of the counties are larger than most of the states you guys live in (minus NY). Areas in Northern and Southern California like the Bay Area, The Los Angeles Metropolitan area, and San Diego, along with the entirety of the California coast is completely beyond the nowhereville, USA places you guys listed (once again, except NY and the areas outside of NY like New Canaan).

    California has the most expensive and exclusive areas of the entire world. Does it have shitty areas? ABSOLUTELY–tons of them; they are lumped together in these lists. But, the exclusive areas are as exclusive as they get.

    I’m originally from Chicago, and while it does have its wealthy areas, they are completely LAUGHABLE compared to communities in SoCal. There’s nothing there (Chicago is a 2nd tier city, and outside of it is just cornfields and nothingness). Once again, these figures are a bit skewed in the way they are presented.

    California is home to so many lucrative industries (entertainment and all their offshoots, computer , car, agriculture, wine, aerospace), it’s no wonder almost every California n metropolitan area has world famous neighborhoods that make Kenilworth and Lake Forest look silly in comparison.

    Comment by Diamond — January 13, 2006 @ 6:45 am

  155. what i think is laughable is how you could sit hear and down other cities which i doubt you’ve been to because regardless of what you say if you’ve been to kenilworth or either lake forest or any of the rest of the towns in the north shore you wouldn’t have made that comment. Just to let you know, because i think you missed the point, you base wealth off of two factors. one being real estate value. I agree their are towns that are more expensive then, lets take kenilworth for example,(most expensive town in illinois), because standard of living fluctuates and is different on the east and west coast. but you have to take taste into consideration, kenilworth, as well as the rest of its north shore counterparts are OLD MONEY, they don’t feel the desire for the conspicous displays of wealth that are the obscene estates of new money that you would find in particular SoCal(which you might call them exclusive, i call them sprawl). Now the second way of basing wealth is through per capita income. unlike real estate value, per capita income doesn’t fluctuate. this is where kenilworth and the north shore come in, they have SOME of the highest percentage of high grossing people in the u.s. So to wrap this up, no kenilworth and lake forest aren’t the most expensive towns, but these towns do boast high per capita incomes. Some of the most powerful familes in the u.s. live in or have come from the north shore of chicago like donald rumsfeld and his family and the pritzkers. where do you think they got the term of north shore in pertaining to california. they got it from the original north shore that is of chicago obviously for its prestige value. and finally again it comes down to old money and new money taste. i think new money would be attracted to the extravagant sprawl neighborhoods of SoCal, that you call exclusive, but old money tends to reside in neighborhoods that are more prestigious in context and that were around before california was ratified as a state.

    Comment by eddie — January 14, 2006 @ 3:27 am

  156. There is no term of North Shore pertaining to California. Perhaps you’ve mistaken it for the suburbs of Boston, or maybe even the Hawaiian North Shore?

    I’m originally from Lake Forest, and I’m well aware of the entire North Shore area, especially of KinilWEALTH, as we used to call it when I was younger, and yes, these areas are extremely nice. I didn’t mean to downplay them, they are certainly the nicest neighborhoods for the midwestern area, but like I said..they pale in comparison to LA, SF, SD, or NY’s exclusive neighborhoods in nearly every category.

    Comment by Diamond — January 14, 2006 @ 3:42 pm

  157. Eddie you just read my mind and took exactly what i was about to say about these ignorant people who say chicagos surrounding areas are cornfields. If they trully have been to these areas, they would know what they said was a load of shit. If you go around chicagos surrounding suburbs such as the north shore, and some of its western suburbs in dupage county, many of the wealthier ones look as if they were taken from conneticut or new york suburbs and placed into chicagoland. What eddie just said is exactly what i said above in this forum months ago when i just started visited this topic. What he said was wealth isnt only based on housing value. its based on income. In many cases, north shore towns such as kenilworth, winnetka and lake forest have higher median based incomes than almost ALL towns in california becuase there aren many poor sides of town in the north shore. if you go on wikipedia or other sites in which wikipedia gets their town information from and type in the names of the towns, it tells you the incomes of almost all the towns in the united states.

    Oh also eddie, does Leisel Pritzkers mom still live in Kenilworth, because i know that they moved their after leisels mom remaried after they divorced and moved there. Since then i heard they got a divorce to her second husband some time ago. So does the mother still live there that you know of from any chance? Last i heard of the family was the settlement leisel got for 500 million dollars from sueing her father.

    Also, you are completely right about kenilworth actually having smaller houses in the area, that is probably the least known fact about all the towns on the north shore. West of the train tracks are actually know to be the “less expensive” part of kenilworth for some reason, even though it still has million dollar homes.

    in additon, i also know what you mean about new triers ever famous drug problem. I remember over the summer, me and my frieds were at the 7 eleven in winnetka or Glencoe? and we saw a small group of kids smoking weed in their car like it was nothing. I think this drug problem comes from being under much stress from the over demanding accademic standards of the school, and the simple fact that the kids have nothing better else to do. Drugs were also a big problem when i went to glenbrook north freshman and softmore year before i moved. Its also a big problem here at Hinsdale Central, the highschool i now go to in hinsdale.

    From Carl

    Comment by Carl Powers — January 14, 2006 @ 4:24 pm

  158. Saying there’s nothing but cornfields isn’t meant to be taken literally, it’s an expression. Chicago is widely regarded and well known as a 2nd tier city. It’s just not a city that has things going on like LA or NY, or even San Francisco. The suburbs, or exurbs, that surround the Chicagoland area, ESPECIALLY have nothing going on.

    Why do you question the drug issues in the suburbs? How old are you? That is about as typical as it gets–the richer the community, the higher probability of experimentation. I can only assume you yourself are a child looking through the ‘looking glass of the world’, and not an adult. If that’s the case, you certainly have no idea what west coast wealth is like, especially living in nowhereville, USA (read: wealthy midwestern town)

    Do travel and open your eyes, it’s fairly known that west and east coasters laugh at midwesterners and how they think they are in the same league or even game in terms of wealth, prestige, or even just the idea of ‘having shit going on in your area.’ It makes people from California and New York look pretentious, but it’s just the honest to god truth–I know, because I’m originally from the midwest and I lived there for the first 16 years of my life. Ain’t much going on in wasteland that is the midwest, and only until you get out of there, do you realize how close minded and empty it truly is. That’s where ‘cornfields’ come from (most of the time, the literal term is applicable!) The real business, the real ‘shit going on’, the real money is in LA or NY. It’s been widely accepted since the 80′s (when LA surpassed Chicago in size) and both towns are growing at an EXPLOSIVE rate, while Chicago continues to shrink, yearly. At least you have good corn in your parts, right? ;)

    Comment by Diamond — January 14, 2006 @ 8:43 pm

  159. from what i know the original pritzker family stays in wilmette, the town that i live in, i am not for sure if any moved in kenilworth next door, but i wouldn’t doubt it. i don’t know anything about their personal life like that.

    Comment by eddie — January 15, 2006 @ 8:39 pm

  160. Chicago BLOWS

    NEW YORK is the richest

    All you hicks from Chicago need to get an education.

    Comment by Chris — January 22, 2006 @ 7:05 pm

  161. Anyone know of any wealthy Denver suburbs? I was thinking of relocating after a recent job offer.

    Comment by Tom — January 23, 2006 @ 9:13 pm

  162. Someone posted Montgomery County was one of the “wierdest” counties” some please explain..

    Comment by Kim — January 23, 2006 @ 9:20 pm

  163. What about Mercer County, NJ. Princeton, Hopewell, Lawrencville, West windsor, Hamilton, Robbinsville. Im surpised nobody mentioned this affluent county. It has some of NJ’s nicest communities in my opinion, and its not overcrowded like bergen county. It also has some very nice scenery especially in the Hopewell area.
    This county should have definetly have definetly made the richest county list. Exept for the notorius Trenton area its a great place to live work and raise a family.

    Comment by Joey — January 27, 2006 @ 1:45 am

  164. [almost deleted, because it is someamybusiness when you put stuff on this server]

    First of all, NJ is on it’s own plateau of wealth. Not only do about 5 of the richest 20 counties in NJ, but they’re there for a reason. There isn’t a place in the world as blood thirsty competitive as the NYC metro area on the Jersey side. Everyone’s working 2, 3, 4 jobs, men work, women work, kids work, more and more and more. I dont know a adult in NJ who doesnt work 7 days a week! Im from Morris County and in our small county we boast headquarters for 56 fortune 500 companies. And moving on to Essex… everyone knows why people think Jersey is the ghetto, because a cardboard box in Shorthills still sets a man back $$$$1,000,000 dollars!!! The real secret to NJ success(and NJ is the richest in the nation…bye bye CT!!!) is the competitive culture… highest national concentration of Italians and Jews…! Yeah baby! !!

    Comment by Nonayourbusiness — January 30, 2006 @ 10:59 am

  165. Wrong. NJ does *not* host 56 fortune 500 companies. That is absurd. NY holds the most (54), followed by California (52; and was just RECENTLY passed by New York), and third place is Texas.

    Sure, there are some really nice parts of New Jersey, but to think they even compare to Northern/Southern California coastal communities or New York suburbs is just asinine.

    Comment by Diamond — January 31, 2006 @ 3:51 am

  166. I get a kick out of Medina, WA not being mentioned… Paul Allen, Steve Balmer, Ray Allen, Bill Gates, and others live there… that’s got to throw off the average a little bit.

    Comment by Charlie Cole — January 31, 2006 @ 6:28 pm

  167. I am amazed at the shallow, superficial rich wannabees on this site, which I just ran into. And on top of that, those that choose to put down areas which they have never been to or will never visit. I have been to 49 states, I grew up in Orange County, California, went to college in Boston, law school in NYC and now live in the suburbs of Chicago. I chose Chicago because the quality of life far exceeds NYC or LA, and whether my suburb is wealthier than Atherton or Alpine, NJ, who cares. Why don’t you visit the north shore of Chicago, or the western suburbs of Hinsdale or Oakbrook, and tell me who lives better, in nicer houses, in better surroundings without a killer commute or dealing with the filth and crowded expensive conditions of NYC or the sprawl of LA. You kids should educate yourselves before writing about things you know nothing about. Get a life……….

    Comment by Amazed — January 31, 2006 @ 7:10 pm

  168. Get a life? Have you been to Alpine, NJ. There are extravagant estates throughout the town (some are well hidden by trees and landscaping) Its by far more wealthy than any Chicago suburb and is 16 miles from the Big Apple. You get a life!

    Comment by Jonathan — January 31, 2006 @ 8:08 pm

  169. Jonathan, Like I said, I went to law school in NYC, and have been to Alpine several times. I have also been to other cities in your lovely state, such as Camden, Newark, and Atlantic City, which are far larger, and what people tend to think of as the true NJ, although unfairly. Now, back to my original point, have YOU ever been to the suburbs or gold coast of Chicago or any of the places mentioned here to compare? If not, then maybe your the one to get the life and write about things from your own life exprience, however lacking it may be at this point.

    Comment by Amazed — February 1, 2006 @ 11:09 am

  170. Amazed is highly incorrect. The gold cost and suburbs are just not comparable, at least to exclusive California suburbs. This is why the Chicagoland area has been shrinking since 1950 (and ultimately surpassed by LA in the 1990 census).

    As mentioned, Chicago is a 2nd tier city, and truly a wonderful place if you enjoy the midwest scene. There is not much happening, and very one dimensional, especially the suburban area. In terms of wealth, it is far behind three California metropolitan areas (San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego). You go to Marin county, or Rolling Hills Estates, Bel-Air, Beverly Hills, San Marino, Malibu, etc. etc. for infinite neighborhoods..and those Chicago suburbs become very dull and ‘midwestern’ for a lack of a better term.

    That’s great that you’ve lived in several different cities, and your mileage may vary. But, to say Chicago’s exclusive neighborhoods are more prestigious than any exclusive California neighborhood..well, I guess I’m amazed by that comment.

    Comment by Diamond — February 1, 2006 @ 2:51 pm

  171. born and raised in hinsdale, and i cant wait until i get out of here. i dont know WHAT that poster is talking about. people here have such chicago pride, when its for country bumpkins who have never been anywhere else in their life. the local idiots worship chicago like its the greatest city on earth, its so annoying. its all their first taste of a big city. i find it quite average, honestly.

    im heading to san diego, where the weather is mediterranean, the women are beautiful and down to earth, and away from the soccer moms suvs dominating and crowding the streets. maybe here isn’t so bad if you want that stale, neutral kind of life.

    Comment by ChiTowner — February 1, 2006 @ 3:01 pm

  172. born and raised in hinsdale, and i cant wait until i get out of here. i dont know WHAT that poster is talking about. people here have such chicago pride, when its for country bumpkins who have never been anywhere else in their life. the local idiots worship chicago like its the greatest city on earth, its so annoying. its all their first taste of a big city. i find it quite average, honestly.

    im heading to san diego, where the weather is mediterranean, the women are beautiful, and away from the soccer moms suvs dominating and crowding the streets. maybe here isn’t so bad if you want that stale, neutral kind of life.

    Comment by ChiTownerHeadingWest — February 1, 2006 @ 3:36 pm

  173. Yes, amazed I have been to the Gold Coast infact my girlfriend is from there(Glencoe). I’ve been to Glencoe and driven around other towns on the North Shore including Kenilworth. But my girlfriend said it isn’t as good. Growing up she said it was fairly boring and outside Chicago there really isn’t anything. Drugs were also a major issue in her teenage years.

    Comment by Jonathan — February 1, 2006 @ 6:17 pm

  174. Last comment on this thing. Diamond, who appears to be an easterner who is bashing the Midwest again, must read what I said closer. No one is saying the Chicago suburbs are more prestigious than those of California, just more liveable than most with good schools, nice homes, and decent commutes.The Chicago area is NOT “shrinking” as a metropolitan area, its suburban area has boomed, and expanded to the border of Wisconsin to the north, and to DeKalb, one hour to the west. It is true that Los Angeles proper now has more people due to foreign immigration, and that the city of Chicago proper has fewer people (2.9 million) than it did in 1950, but the metropolitan area has expanded to almost nine million people, and Chicago as a city is far more liveable and beautiful than it was with more people in 1950. I am sure that Diamond, too, has never been to Chicago, but I can bet I have been to, or near, his home.

    As for the very immature malcontent from Hinsdale, I think that he should leave immediately and go somewhere else to really appreciate where he is from.The thing about California (having grown up there) is that it is full of malcontents who were wierdos back east and picked up and moved to the coast to get away from family, problems, etc., or in the case of Hinsdale boy, to get away from soccer moms in Range Rovers who live in teardowns. Chicago is not THE place, but reading these blogs from easterners who really think that a dollar figure is all there is, maybe it is the place to get away from those who are full of themselves.

    Comment by Amazed — February 1, 2006 @ 6:56 pm

  175. Incorrect. I’m originally from the Chicago suburbs (Lake Forest), and have lived in on Lake Shore Drive for 4 years. I currently live in the Pacific Palisades, I’m not an easterner (personally, I think the east coast is awful, but I respect it).

    You can blame LA’s boom on immigration, but the facts remain clear; Chicago’s population has decreased, and understandbly so. I’m glad I got out of that wasteland they call the midwest. When you have kids, don’t be surprised if they have the interest or dream of moving to the west/east coast.

    Comment by Diamond — February 1, 2006 @ 9:14 pm

  176. This is to all you pompous, conceited individuals who have nothing better to do than propel your ostentatious drivel about how much your rich daddy blows on living in your over inflated counties. GET A LIFE. I as well come from an affluent background, but there are much more important things in life than flaunting your money. Until you can disassociate yourself from material wealth, you can never know the true value of things.

    Comment by Anonymous — February 2, 2006 @ 2:22 am

  177. wow, so much has been said since last time i was here. so much to say and so little time. got to study so here it is real fast.

    Jonathan, you are a fucking complete liar, i can tell by what you are saying that you havent even been to the chicago area before. You dont even have any proof to back up what the fuck you are saying, yoiu are just stating random things because you think that they will help your case. its obvious because you wait till someone said that you havent been there to finally say that you have? yea righ, bull shit. Also, glencoe isnt part of the gold coast, the gold coast is in the city, on the loop you dumb ass. so i pretty much think you made up your girlfried that lives in glencoe up.

    oh and diamond since you’ve got so much to say, why dont you read what people are saying carefully, Amazed didnt say that chicagos suburbs are more prestigous than the ones in california. oh and also, diamond, the chicagoland area isnt just chicago and its city limits, chicagoland is actually considered to be chicago itself, as well as its surrounding suburbs including the north shore and its surrounding areas. it also includes some areas in indiana. so what im trying to say here is that even though chicago itself might be shinking, its people are just moving out to the suburbs of the city. dumbass.

    and the person supposedly from hinsdale, right by where i live now, i pretty much think you are saying you are from there just to state your nonsence opinion. so yes im calling you a liar.

    and amazed, im amazed at your inteligent and sensible comments on this board. i appreciate it. Just dont stupe to these idiot’s level and insult where they live, becuase i happen to like california and new york. i mean, you cant expect people to respect where you come from, if you dont respect there. lol. But anyway dont let these people bother you who obviously dont know what they are talking about.

    damn, so fucking stressed, thats it

    Comment by carl — February 2, 2006 @ 7:09 pm

  178. Awww poor carl is jealous because he knows that the NY & LA have better and nicer areas. It’s OK Carl its not our fault your overly egotistical about where you were brought up.

    Comment by Jonathan — February 3, 2006 @ 6:31 pm

  179. You guys are all some LAMES. All this going back at eachother is pettiness and its really not that serious. We all know there are just a lot of affluent towns in and around the N.Y. L.A. and Chi. area. Why don’t you guys just leave it at that. You guys can sit here and make your opinionated and biased claims, but if you don’t have data backing it up, it is just a bunch of hot air.

    Comment by Eddie — February 3, 2006 @ 10:18 pm

  180. jonanthan, when did i ever dis where you came from. in my post i just said that i really like california and new york and i am acutally considering moving to california to go to school in a couple of years. so where do you get the sense that im jelous or dissing where you come from? anyway, i was just commenting on the so called “facts” you were trying to say on this site about chicago. oh and how am i egotistical, you are the one trying to praise where you are from and trying to trash other.

    and diamond in responce to one of your earlier posts above, im 16 and a junior in high school, and what makes you think that us people in chicago dont travel to different places in america as well. and also, you are the one that keeps posting immature, uneducated comments as well as jonathan. so how old are you two? also, when have i one said that chicago and its suburbs are better or wealthier than any other place. if you ‘read’ my past posts, you would see that i was just stateing the charm and elegance of these places and not at all trashing were you come from. i have not out right said chicago was better and thats it. have i? if i have said anything in that nature, let me know. until then, please stop trying to prove me wrong on something that i never said before.

    and while reading some of the pasts posts on this site, i was completly unaware of how wealthy dupage county actually is. growing up in the chicagoland area, i never thought of it as wealthy, accept for oakbrookm, hinsdale and burr ridge of coure. doing some research, obviously unlike some of you other idiots on this board, it says that dupage in some cases is actually wealthier than lake county and cook, depending on what you are measuring it’s wealth by. this was a complete shock to me becuase i have friends that actually go to lake park high school in roselle, i always kind of thought it was mostly middle class but i guess i was wrong.

    Comment by carl — February 3, 2006 @ 10:58 pm

  181. I think you are all a bunch of wannabees cake eaters! That’s right. The a town I come from in a Santorini Greece puts all of you stinging a WASPS out of the commission. When you get done with a the prep schools and you juice a your stupid trust funds out, come and talk to me. I do not care if your father make a millions as a Trumps butler or if a you are the railroad barron of the Midwest and you have your a choice between Lake Shore Country Day, Loyola or New Trier, but you all a missing the a boat. Beverly Chicago was the inspiration for the Beverly Hills California. And all of a you Ford monies Detroit people can lick my Kronos fortune behind because I have a the money, albe a it the new money, and it is to tip you on Caddy Day at Bushwood. That’s right. Sussex, Milford, Brownwood, Hempsted, Hamptons and even a the New York Manhattan a peoples who talk like Bush oil monies people, I have more moneys in a day than your trust funds that your cheating wife mommies and poppies who drive Lexus (hisk) can ever fathom. Good night and good rittance.
    Hinsdale calling out, non-Greek beyotches!

    Comment by Thomas R. Blankenship — February 4, 2006 @ 2:36 am

  182. I said earlier one last comment, but I guess I lied, because this is it. I am posting this to counter the non-sensical drivel that Diamond has posted earlier that really got under my skin, and for whatever anal reason I feel that I have to correct.

    Diamond has continually bashed Chicago on this thing, saying that it has lost population and therefore is a “second tier” city (whatever the hell that means) behind places like San Diego and San Francisco. For those of you who don’t know a thing about Chicago, it is the third largest metro and city in the country, is the transportation hub of the country (1st in rail and either first or second busiest airport in the world with O’Hare) has the tallest building in the country (Sears Tower) and is home to many major corporations such as Boeing Aircraft (which moved from Seattle to be in a “first tier” city), Motorola, McDonalds, Kraft, Sears, United Airlines, Allstate, Walgreens, Sara Lee. Abbott Labs and on and on.

    If you google Diamond’s first tier city San Francisco, under “San Fransico population loss” you will see that San Fransisco and the bay area in general have lost more people in the last five years (4% from a 780,000 to 744,000 in 2004 and more since in the city proper) than any other area in the country and that to rent a UHAUL from San Fransisco to the Midwest it costs $3500 but to rent it the other way costs $1800, due to people leaving and not coming in, Boston, too is losing population, for the very same reason as San Francisco, high housing costs and high tech job loss. This despite the fact that they are great towns.

    Chicago gained 200,000 during the 1990′s, and has lost 34,000 since 2000, due to gentification pushing lower income residents to the suburbs.
    San Fransisco, Boston, and Chicago (and maybe NY) in my opinion are the coolest and most interesting towns in the USA because of the diversity and attractiveness of their neighborhoods,(Wrigley Field and Fenway e.g.) but the population gain or loss of these places doesn’t make them any less cool or vibrant.

    Diamond, I do not believe that you grew up in Lake Forest, IL because you are not bright enough to go to Lake Forest High School, or any other high school in Illinois for that matter. In fact, I bet you grew up in Kentucky (no offense to KY) and now live in California in Bellflower or Cerritos and mist the windows of your parent’s Toyota Corolla on Sunday drives to Pacific Palisades with your parents looking at houses you can’t afford. You are far too superficial and status conscious, far too incorrect in all that you say, and need to get a hobby or a girlfriend, and maybe need to hone your research skills before you write on this site.

    Comment by Amazed — February 4, 2006 @ 1:30 pm

  183. Howcome nobody said anything about my comment on Mercer County, NJ?

    Comment by Joey — February 4, 2006 @ 1:33 pm

  184. Well Joey, I think Mercer County isn’t on the list because of Trenton, which probably brought down the income significally. But yes Princeton is a beautiful town.

    Comment by Jonathan — February 4, 2006 @ 4:39 pm

  185. Amazed,

    New York has 56 Fortune 500 companies, ranked #1 in the country. California has 54, only recently surpassed within the last few years, which is ranked #2. Texas is ranked #3. Chicago is a 2nd tier city.

    You’re right, I didn’t go to Lake Forest High. I went to Lake Forest Academy, graduated UCLA for undergrad, Stanford for my masters, and have been happily married for almost 2 years.

    Sorry to have gotten on your nerves, but the truth hurts sometimes. You making fun of me, assuming I’m from Kentucky is hypocritical and ignorant, especially someone from the midwest.

    Don’t make fun of a blind person if you’re blind my friend. Californians and New Yorkers still laugh whenever a comparison HAS to be made.

    Comment by Diamond — February 4, 2006 @ 8:38 pm

  186. I think Amazed just made Diamond feel really shitty with his last comment. HAHAHA HAHAHA!

    Comment by Eddie — February 5, 2006 @ 4:30 pm

  187. The only thing that needs to be said here is that Atherton is the richest city in America according to Forbes magazine. Therefore,I would invite anyone who is not from Atherton to recognize their comparitively meager wages and shut the fuck up. Sorry for that momentary breach in class but I just felt that it needed to be said. Enjoy living off of credit cards and buying cars more expensive than your houses. The fleeting happiness you get from other people’s envy is definitely worth the lifetime of debt. I can tell you right now that I am richer than all of you, especially that Lake Forest turd. I have a friend who lives in Lake Forest and she tells me it’s quite ghetto comparitively.

    The difference in what I just said and what you idiots have been saying is that I don’t think that being rich means I have more of a life or that I’m better than all of you. I happen to be better than all of you because I’m not a complete retard. Now, my intelligence could just be the biproduct of my ridiculously expensive education or perhaps just the fact that smart people tend to make a lot of money, and those people would happen to be my parents.

    See the thing I love about this is that I’m just reciting facts that have no bearing to me but make all of you feel awful. I know this sounds strange coming from a 14 year old, but all of you need to grow up.

    Comment by Typical Atherton Rich Kid — February 8, 2006 @ 1:51 am

  188. Wow, Atherton, brains but no maturity. I guess you are another reason why so many people are moving from the bay area. True rich people are comfortable with their wealth and are modest about it, and do not feel the need to flaunt it or put it in other people’s faces. What an asshole.

    Comment by Amazed — February 8, 2006 @ 12:21 pm

  189. Yes, Amazed im going to have to agree with you. although i have recently read that altherton California right now is the wealthiest town in the country, i will have to completely dissagree that this person is actually from there. Just some other person trying to pass themselves off as rich and doing so by having no class or inteligence. i mean come on, who would actually say that dumb shit that he has come on here and said. I mean, ive seen white trash with more class than this person has. This person just won himself no respect, and for the benefit of this board, please no one respond to this rediculous poster.

    Comment by carl — February 8, 2006 @ 9:54 pm

  190. I thought Jupiter Island, Florida was the most affluent richest town in the United States

    Comment by Lourdes — February 9, 2006 @ 12:26 am

  191. I live in Fairfield county and my house is ona pond, 1 mile from the beach and is worth 10 million dollars and rising. Fairfield county is known for the private not really famous over rated people and it’s a under rated town. To live in this town, you must have money. I live in Westport, which is the 2nd richest town in fairfield county, but better than Greenwich and the town is being over taken by major businesses such as Tiffany’s, Starbucks, UBS, and many brand name clothing stores. The vehicles in this town range from BMW, Mercedes-Benz Lexus to Lamboghini, Ferrari, Ferrari, Aston Martin and Volvo. We are the richest county in the US, and the best.

    Comment by Andrew Colabella — February 9, 2006 @ 12:42 am

  192. Since I discovered this site quite by accident over a week ago, I have been facinated by the amount of bullshit on this site, and I must admit it is addictive to see wannabees who exagerate what they have and where they live write on this site. It is like a soap opera, only with liars. I come from a well to do background, and live well, but was taught by my parents never to flaunt what you have or brag about what you have to others. In fact, because I now live in such a nice neighborhood, I choose not to be specific when people ask me where I live out of modesty (really). Most of the well to do I know or deal with are much the same as myself if they are comfortable with what they have.

    So, when a person like Andrew writes and says he lives in a 10M dollar house in Westport, CT, you just have to call him on it. The best way to see the places written about here is to go to realtor.com, and see what 10M buys there. If true, Andrew lives in the second most expensive house in town, on over 4 acres with 20,000 square feet overlooking the ocean. He sure did not describe his house that way. Westport is nice, but when you compare the listing prices of say Mercer Island, WA, Wellesley MA, or Hinsdale, IL, to Westport, they are all pretty comparable. And I am sure that all have Ferrari and Porsche dealerhips nearby. These are all executive transfer towns, and the prices tend to go up accordingly because people from one region sell and buy in another region with the same money. Most of the highest ranking affluent towns named are tiny in population, if they had annexed nearby areas to make their populations larger, they would not be ranked the way that they are. So, this is all a numbers game the way that I see it.

    I guess I have said my piece with this thing, but will keep being entertained by the next exagerator who feels the need to tell us about his daddy’s Ferrari or his 30 million dollar house, or how his region is sooo much better than other’s regions. From my experience, one rich neighborhood is like another, boring, sterile, and beautiful, no matter what part of the country you are in.

    Comment by Amazed — February 9, 2006 @ 12:38 pm

  193. I think Monmouth County in NJ should be on the list. Being from there I know it’s home to many upscale beach towns like Spring Lake, Sea Girt (my home town), and Deal. Other towns like Middleton (where Bon Jovi lives) and Rumson are also located in the county. Many New Yorkers have been moving out there, and espcially now with the direct train service to Penn Station. I’d move back out there once my college days are over..

    Comment by Jonathan — February 9, 2006 @ 8:20 pm

  194. I totally agree with Andrew. To compare one wealthy area to another is like comparing a Benz to a BMW. It’s 6 to 1. However, what is most amusing is how the kids on this site refer to the home they reside in or car they drive, as “their’s” You know, after a while Daddy does kick the lazy, fat, vile, greedy child out of the house to fend for him or herself. My God, if all of you seriosuly think that becasue you old man lives in Saddle River or Westport or were ever, that it suddenly means that you will one day end up there, you all are in for a grave dissapointment. Pretty soon the affluenza you all harbour will consume your bodies and you will end up not looking over central Park, but living in it! Thank God I was never an obscenely, spoiled, rotten child.

    Comment by trevor Kraus — February 10, 2006 @ 1:23 pm

  195. I 100% agree with trevor. I’ve seen things like this happen before. I’m not going to use full names but there was this girl at my high school (Manasquan High). She was from Spring Lake, pretty, popular, and came from a good family. She eventually starting partying to much and living in her bubble that ended with her one day sleeping on the beach, overdosing, and being sent to the local hospital and recomended for rehab. She never went to college and I think still lives with her parents to this day..

    Comment by Jonathan — February 11, 2006 @ 12:37 pm

  196. ok, so at first, thought that you were all just bragging people, who really get a kick out of being rich. I shouldn’t be talking, I live in Fairfeild County, have my whole life. But, really, I don’t understand why you want to be richer… and so who the hell cares what celebrities came from your town or what ever… most come from modest towns in the middle of nowhere. I was not suprised that we were number two, but I thought that Greenwhich was supposed to be like one of the richest, if not the richest town in the country, or whatever. But, hey I am living in a bubble in an “overprivleged” life, as my dad says. Yea, the houses cost a ton, millions, but who cares? And the cars, thier nice, but they are sitll just cars… can I ask you if you are all just realizing that you are rich, or you just like saying it? And ok, and it isn’t so special that people where gucci, prada, coach, tiffany, juciy and what not… i mean, we have a coach and tiffany downtown, and I live in a smaill(-ish) town. And S. is right, Greenwhich isn’t the only town keeping Fairfeild County on the map… haha, try Weston, New Cannan, Westport, and all the other ones they mentioned. As for the rest of you, who don’t come from Fairfeild County, have a ton of fun in your rich little lives… no one really gives a shit, we are all just as rich.

    Comment by Emma — February 15, 2006 @ 7:19 pm

  197. Nation’s Richest County Makes Spending a Sport

    Consider:

    Almost 19 percent of Fairfax households have more than $150,000 in annual income, sixth highest in the country. That’s up from 4.5 percent and a 20th place ranking a decade ago. Fairfax trails such places as Fairfield County, Conn.; Somerset County, N.J.; and Westchester County, N.Y. Montgomery County comes in 12th, with 16 percent of its households having $150,000 or more in income.

    I found this on a web site…read and then you decide…

    Comment by Emma — February 16, 2006 @ 5:00 pm

  198. Im a little confused, whats the difference between fairfield and fairfax

    Comment by Lourdes — February 16, 2006 @ 9:52 pm

  199. I grew up in Bergen County too and have lived abroad and can tell you that celebs are nothing. If you aren’t worth over 1 Billion, then why bother? CEO’s and celebs may be worth 7,8,9 figures, but if you aren’t worth 10 digits, don’t waste people’s times. Billions not millions.

    Comment by Ben — February 17, 2006 @ 2:05 am

  200. Fairfield = Conneticut while Fairfax= Virginia

    Comment by Tiffany — February 17, 2006 @ 9:11 am

  201. this is for anyone to respond. Which one would you choose. North Shore of Chicago or Northern Suburbs of New Jersey

    Comment by Tyler — February 18, 2006 @ 3:13 pm

  202. Defintely Northern New Jersey Suburbs. Good schools, proximity to New York, wealthy and exculsive areas, slightly better weather, and the beaches aren’t that far.

    Comment by Antonio — February 20, 2006 @ 10:10 am

  203. Same with the North Shore. Best school districts, proximity to Chicago, wealthy areas, weather is harsh though in the winter, and the towns are on the beach. But for some reason to me the North Shore seems to be more ritzier than Northern New Jersey. Towns in northern New Jersey are very nice indeed but they seem to be more like the western suburbs of Hinsdale, Oakbrook, Downers Grove, and Naperville. Living in the North Shore, I would pick Northern New Jersey because their towns are more approachable, even though they have some towns that are equally snooty. The North Shore has to much of an Haute Air about itself. To much attitude here. I also agree, definetly New Jersey.

    Comment by Holly — February 20, 2006 @ 6:30 pm

  204. I too would have to say Northern New Jersey Suburbs (also Western NJ has nice suburbs too). I have an uncle out in Lake Forest (I’m not sure if that’s North Shore) but Chicago just isn’t New York City. It’s also much more colder! I grew up in the small Morris County town of Chatha,, and quite frankly couldn’t imagine myself growing up anywhere else. I know Chicago’s suburbs are beautiful and one of a kind, but I think Northern New Jersey is a more family friendly place.

    Comment by Tiffany — February 20, 2006 @ 10:37 pm

  205. Holly i do agree with u that the north shore can indeed be very snobby, especially me being african american having lived in this nearly all white region. But i do have to say that the north shore isnt as snobby as many people think. My experiences have been pretty good and have experience a minimum of racism during my time living there, except for a few incidences. as for the quality of life, for instance, its school system, near the beach, and whith its home town feel, you cant really beat it. The only thing i dont really like about it is that there is nothing really to do, except spend your money at northbrook court. This is why i think the kids that live in these towns are a little more uncontrollable and out there than kids in many other wealthy towns.

    And also, i totally agree with u. Oak Brook and Burr Ridge definately remind me of the Northern New Jersey area. It just dosnt seem as homey or have the small town feel of the north shore. But i would have to disagree with u that northern new jersey is kind of like naperville and hinsdale because they are nothing alike. If anything, hinsdale and naperville remind me of the north shore a little bit because of its family oriented. But anyway, now that ive been living in the western suburb of burr ridge, i now kind of like living here almost better tan on the north shore for the simple reason that there is more to do out here. During the day, there are so many people that pass through here either going to work or going to the mall, there is just so much more happening down here than on the north shore.

    And also, tiffany, im going to assume that you have never been to the north shore simply based on the fact that you didnt seem to think the north shore is a very friendly place. In fact, with the exception of lake forest, which is the most snobby of the north shore towns, is one of the most family oriented places around, in fact even more so than any place in northern new jersey. And yes i have been there in case if you were wondering. But any way nice topic to talk about.

    As for another topic, for the people who have actually been to these places, what are your favourite towns in New York State and or the chicago area, since these are the two places in which ive spent the most time in.

    also good to see positive discussions lately, instead of the hater comments that have frequently plagued the board.

    Comment by carl — February 21, 2006 @ 1:39 am

  206. Thats a tough question. Northern New Jersey is very nice. But so is the North Shore. Its funny that Holly makes that assumption about New Jersey because I thought I was the only one to notice that the Shore villages seemed to be a bit more posh or glitzy which might seem a bit biased because I am from Wilmette. But I recently just visited my uncle in Villa Marie Claire(I don’t know where that is in New Jersey, I think its north)and it is fantastic there. We were actually close to a place called saddle creek? river? (wherever that is) because they took me to see russell simmons, and p. diddy’s place. The area that i was in, looked more like the Barringtons or Lincolnshire/Riverwoods than the west suburbs, eventhough there isn’t that much difference. Gargantuan sized mansions hid in dense wooded areas on however many acres of land. and just like the Barringtons it seemed more inviting(I really like the Barringtons) than the otherwise too stiff and to damn pretensious Shore. But growing up here i think i got used to it and wouldn’t imagine being any place else. It is very glamorous up here but on the otherhand, too formal.

    Comment by Eddie — February 21, 2006 @ 3:10 am

  207. Carl, I agree with you and disagree with you. I agree that the North Shore is very family oriented but that still doesn’t stop people from acting too high and mighty. And in my opinion Lake Forest has its snobs, but its nothing compared to people in Winnetka, and even where I live in Wilmette(which in my opinion is the low end for the north shore, so there is no reason why people act the way they do here). I have even encountered people with stank attitudes in Evanston and was quick to correct them. And I think it depends on where your at in the North Shore. I am always in Skokie at Old Orchard or in Evanston, so its not that particularly boring at the end where I’m in, but probably in Northbrook, I dont know. The only towns in the western suburbs that is like the north shore are Riverside, Lagrange, River Forest, and Hinsdale- I don’t think Naperville has nothing in common with these- its too rural.
    I have only been to one place in New York, that was Sag Harbour. It was very nice, very Hamptonish, and everything you would expect the Hamptons to be like(not my cup of tea)I prefer Oak Bluffs, Mass on Marthas Vineyard though. I have extended family there and its more rustic and private. and I don’t really have a favorite in the Chicago area, but Chicago itself. I love Lincoln Park- thats where I attend school, and I love Hyde Park.

    Comment by Eddie — February 21, 2006 @ 2:29 pm

  208. I’m sorry Carl, I didn’t mean to sound as if I were bashing Lake Forest or any type of North Shore suburbs. I’m not sure if I was in the North Shore because I went to visit my uncle in Lake Forest only, I didn’t go cruising down the rizty suburbs House Hunting with Suzanne Wong.

    P.S. I made a typo I grew up in Chatham not “Chatha,,”

    Comment by Tiffany — February 21, 2006 @ 6:37 pm

  209. You guys are all wrong Nrothern NJ is much richer. I live in Northern NJ specifically Nrothern Bergen Coutny and there is nowhere richer then this area.All New York Yankee celeberties live in this area , Many famous actors have homes , and many more.The communities of Franklin Lakes , Alpine , Englewood cliffs , and Saddle River hold many many famous people. The North Shore of Chicago does not even compare. Bergen County sill is the best

    Comment by Johnny — March 2, 2006 @ 5:08 pm

  210. Johnny, you are an idiot.

    Comment by Jane — March 3, 2006 @ 7:24 pm

  211. Jonathan, maybe its cause you are all freakin rednecks and hillbillies? By the way, the term “tight ass” downtown sounds mighty Brokeback Mountain…….what are you trying to say about Dallas, cowboy ??

    Comment by Amazed — March 8, 2006 @ 10:56 am

  212. VERY funny, Amazed, haha, and its probably true…

    Comment by Emma — March 8, 2006 @ 6:40 pm

  213. Oh my gosh, that is some funny stuff Amazed. Johnathan you can’t really expect anyone to take you serious because the towns you name just sounds outright country- DUNCANVILLE, PLANO, FRISCO, AND MESQUITO- come on now. They might seem nice to the HICKS in the south but you can’t nowhere compare them to elite WASPyISH enclaves which are more or less the towns being talked about here. Sorry, but you need to get real.

    Comment by Holly — March 9, 2006 @ 2:23 am

  214. Yeah “JONOTHAN” in the south homes are cheap too. and Dallas is well Dallas, I could see perhaps Houston maybe but no not Dallas. Maybe you should take a visit up north to New York or Chicago suburbs.

    p.s. A subdivision where houses range from 150-300k isn’t an affluent area.

    Comment by Jonathan — March 9, 2006 @ 6:18 pm

  215. Why is Beverly Hills poorer then more then 20 other towns? They must have houseing projects. I know Greenwich,Ct has some poor areas. I’m surprised were richer then Beverly Hills! Did you know Beverly Hills median incom is only $120,000.

    Comment by David Moss — March 10, 2006 @ 9:59 am

  216. There are wealthy places everywhere but especially on the coasts. The Gold Coast of Long Island is old money rich. These towns include Brookville, Sands Pt, Kings Pt, Mill Neck, Muttontown, Matinecock and Lattingtown. The Hamptons have some of the richest real estate in the country. I think the most expensive hous sold in the US was in East Hampton.

    Comment by T T C — March 12, 2006 @ 5:58 pm

  217. Bergen County, NJ would be tops if it was only north of Route 4. Lake County, IL would do well to jettison Waukegan and North Chicago.
    What category would Monroe, FL fit in where it’s premier properties are 2nd homes?

    Comment by rob — March 21, 2006 @ 1:42 pm

  218. Oakland County in Michigan should definately be on your list! You would have known this if you would have done some research! Oakland County is one of the wealthiest counties in the world! I find it very funny that me and only one other person was smart enough to even post this County!

    Comment by Niki — March 24, 2006 @ 6:46 pm

  219. yea talk all yo shit but michigan tops it all oakland county is 4th richest and right next to the 2nd most dangerous city[detroit] so come visit and see both sides of hood and the rich. dont tilt yo hat here in detroit maybe in your suburb.[iL./ca/ny/tx/nj]
    this state holds the gates to heaven and hell .

    Comment by joe — March 27, 2006 @ 12:30 am

  220. detroit

    Comment by joe — March 27, 2006 @ 12:32 am

  221. Jonathan,you are suprisingly articulate for a tight assed southern boy from Duncanville, TX ! I really like the way that you write(what the hell is caca faced? “Dallas is much more richer dan Chicago?” Your schools are probably first rate, and your number one in your class, right?) Anyway, cowboy, try going to realtor.com to get an idea of how expensive real estate is. According to that website, when you click on Duncanville, Texas, the prices for houses range from $50,000 to $400,000, and for $350,000 you get a house on 1.5 acres that is brick and has 4,700 square feet. If you click on Hinsdale, Illinois (not the richest Chicago suburb, but wealthy), you will see that a shack is around $500,000 and that your $350,000 house is worth at least $4 Million there, and the $350k Duncanville house has more land than the most expensive house on the market in Hinsdale which is $6.5 million. That is what people are talking about when they say Texas is cheap. I would call you a dumbass, but you are just too lame, so I will just say I am glad that you are proud of where you are from, but just be real about it, ok?

    P.S. Detroit boy, you are right, Detroit is like hell……from the ugly uniroyal tire, to the abandoned train station, to the ghettos of Hightland Park to the strip bars of 8 mile Road, it is the gates of hell…….but it gave us Eminem.

    Comment by Amazed — March 27, 2006 @ 1:10 pm

  222. JONATHAN

    I strongly feel you need to take a step out of your redneck territory and take a look at other areas. No offense, but Duncanville, Frisco, Richardson, etc all have cheap or affordable housing. This causes them not to be that affluent! I also highly doubt that Dallas is richer than Chicago. That’s just plan stupid.
    I constantly see charts and online resources containing the wealthiest and richest towns in America. Not once have I ever seen a Dallas suburbs ( I have seen one or two Houston suburbs though).

    Comment by Jonathan — March 27, 2006 @ 5:17 pm

  223. hahaha, I am laughing at your ignorance, Johnathan. Dallas might be rich, but it has nothing on some cities. It deffinatly isn’t “much more richer” as you so nicley put it than cities or counties named on the list above. (notice that “northern cities” are, though) Yea, I never have been to Dallas, but my friend came from Houston to go to a prep school in the north. Thats more than I can say for you, seeing as how you are butchering the english language in your posts. It isn’t easy on the wallet to go there either. Fine, Dallas is rich. What ever. I’M not the one that says “ain’t”. Oh, by the way, find me a site that has Dallas county, or just Dallas as richer than any northern state county or city. Just try. Also, I am agreeing with Amazed only because s/he is right.

    Comment by Emma — March 27, 2006 @ 9:20 pm

  224. here:

    http://www.city-data.com/city/Duncanville-Texas.html
    Ducanville:
    Median household income: $51,654 (year 2000)
    Median house value: $88,700 (year 2000)
    Houston:
    Median household income: $36,616 (year 2000)
    Median house value: $79,300 (year 2000)

    Yea, they are richer in Duncanville

    http://www.city-data.com/city/Westport-Connecticut.html
    Westport:
    Median household income: $119,872 (year 2000)
    Median house value: $625,800 (year 2000)

    But, they don’t come close to Westport

    Check it for yourself, Johnathan

    Comment by Emma — March 27, 2006 @ 9:35 pm

  225. Johnathan you prove every stereotype one might have about the South. You are not knowledgeable about anything you say therefore I think it would be intelligent (which I don’t think you are) to not post anything unless you have proof of what you say. I do believe you’ve been to Chicago but I doubt you have the mental capability to be able to compare and contrast two very different things-particularly Chicago and Dallas. Next time you come to Chicago for your next guest appearance on the Jerry Springer show take one of the many tours of the city, and try to take a sidetrip up Sheridan Road. And then MAYBE your brain Might register that what you posted here was just B.S.

    Comment by Holly — March 28, 2006 @ 1:10 am

  226. “JONATHAN” even my hometown town is better than Duncanville and your other hick towns. My hometown isn’t even that wealthy.

    Sea Girt, NJ
    Median household income: $86,104 (year 2000)
    Median house value: $549,300 (year 2000)

    now lets take a look a town you claimed was rich JONATHAN…

    Cedar Hill, TX
    Median household income: $60,136 (year 2000)
    Median house value: $96,200 (year 2000)

    P.S. I got these sourcs from city-data (Thanks Emma).

    Comment by Jonathan1 — March 28, 2006 @ 7:44 pm

  227. JONATHAN here’s a look at an actually wealthy town….

    Alpine, NJ
    Median household income: $130,740 (year 2000)
    Median house value: $1,000,001 (year 2000)

    Some residents include…
    Lil’ Kim rap artist
    Chris Rock comedian, movie star
    P. Diddy rap artist
    Gary Sheffield baseball player
    Stevie Wonder musician

    Comment by Jonathan — March 28, 2006 @ 8:17 pm

  228. By the way, Andrew Cobella, you are correct, the Port (Westport) is the place to be

    Comment by Emma — March 28, 2006 @ 8:18 pm

  229. Lil Kim lives in Saddle River, FYI.

    Comment by Jane — March 28, 2006 @ 10:47 pm

  230. No. Lil Kim lives in Alpine according to Wikipedia and various other sources. Regardless its the same county.

    Comment by Jonathan1 — March 29, 2006 @ 6:39 pm

  231. STOP STOP STOP … there is Fairfield county Ct and then everyone else … look in the back of Sunday’s New York magazine … nothing but $10, 20 million dollar Fairfield county, Ct homes.

    Comment by Lyle — March 29, 2006 @ 8:00 pm

  232. So, can I ask why we should believe you that Dallas is rich? All we have to go on is your word, which is “MUCK BETTER THAN DAT”. Fine, what ever, keep on thinking what ever you want. But the truth is in the numers…

    Comment by Emma — March 30, 2006 @ 4:50 pm

  233. “IM NOT NO FREAKIN WHITE ASS REDNECK.”

    Judging from your poor typing and grammar skills I’m 99% sure the schools in your so called “rich” area still lack what is to be desired.

    P.S. If we were to get a person to visit the wealthy Dallas (IF IT HAS ANY), Chicago, and New York suburbs do you honestly think they would think Dallas has the richest towns? I doubt it. You need to attend school. I reccomend Geography courses that teaches you about life beyond the 200k subdivisions.

    Comment by Jonathan1 — March 31, 2006 @ 7:16 pm

  234. I live in Morris County and most people are making at least 10 million a year, but others are stuggling to stay alive. What I’m saying is that this is all proportional.

    Comment by Chris — March 31, 2006 @ 8:01 pm

  235. Hello,
    Im lilian from US,29 years old of age,im God fearing i like playing with kids and like meeting ppl who cares for me and im active in person.im a graduate of Rutdgers college,A student that studied Medicine.
    Since the death of my parent in an auto crash accident i have been staying with my uncle in Texas but he has been treating me so bad,i have to run away since i have no choice, to pay a visit to a guy called Adewale Ilesanmi who is from Nigeria that we both have a date,i never know he is a thief he turned up to take all what belongs to me while i have been with him there and the little i have is spent lodging in an Hotel ,i explained how this hapened to the hotel manager he is really kind to me but i begged him to please let me have access to internet but he allowed.on my search i met a girl from the state who introduced me to Yahoo personal that i will meet my match there thats why im here today looking for someone that will care about me and get me out of here.i will be glad if you have interest and prove to me that you will not cheat on me and send ur picture so i can see.here is my e-mail address
    liliany2k5@yahoo.com
    i will be looking forward to hear from you.
    regards
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    Comment by lilian — April 1, 2006 @ 12:09 am

  236. Lake Forest IL is by far the richest city in the United States. There is no exceptions and nowhere else like this city. Rolls Royces and 22 million dollar homes are the norm in this amazing place set just 30 miles from Chicago on the sandy shores of Lake Michigan.

    Comment by Andrew — April 3, 2006 @ 1:42 pm

  237. you’re only in 6th grade? umm doesn’t that make you about 11 or what ever? okay anyway… don’t start with the schools. Other schools can most deffinatly top your school district. I don’t know for sure where, but they can.

    Comment by Emma — April 4, 2006 @ 5:23 pm

  238. Well, the new home she is building is in Saddle River…I have walked inside it.

    Comment by Jane — April 5, 2006 @ 4:19 am

  239. So Jonathan, if you think your town is so rich why yoube takin like that. In Greenwich, Ct only the poor special ed kids talk like that

    Comment by David Moss — April 6, 2006 @ 6:35 am

  240. Hm. Sorry Jane I haven’t heard about Lil’ Kim’s recent town trnasition. How have you walked inside it? And it is legal for her to be having a house built while being or just being in jail?

    Comment by Jonathan1 — April 6, 2006 @ 7:35 pm

  241. $214,000 are you serious. I know some people who have cars more expensive than $213,000

    Comment by Holly — April 6, 2006 @ 8:12 pm

  242. Hey little boy, I if I’m not rich why was my first car and 16th birthday presant a Hummer H3? I bet you never stayed at the royal towers in Atlantis resort in the Bahamas!

    Comment by David Moss — April 6, 2006 @ 8:18 pm

  243. I wounder why almost everyone on this message board is a total stuk up!

    Comment by David Moss — April 6, 2006 @ 8:27 pm

  244. $213,900 for a house? HA. Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, up here in the Northeast 200k will buy you a house in A.) The middle of nowhere or B.) The Ghetto
    Such cheap real estate in the south makes it not as affluent. Get it through your uneducated 12 year old skull.

    Comment by Jonathan1 — April 6, 2006 @ 8:43 pm

  245. My house is about $6million. That’s about how much most of the houses cost on my block. Like to see some hick in Texas come up with that kind of mopney!

    Comment by David Moss — April 6, 2006 @ 10:37 pm

  246. Does everyone know each other on this site?

    Comment by David — April 7, 2006 @ 12:56 am

  247. Where I live 200K will get you a car! An appartment is at least half a mill!

    Comment by David Moss — April 7, 2006 @ 12:59 am

  248. If any body can post anything on this site how do we know if it’s true.

    Comment by David Moss — April 7, 2006 @ 1:32 am

  249. John, are you a fuking dooshbag, or is that how trailer people talk these days?

    Comment by David Moss — April 7, 2006 @ 1:35 am

  250. John I doght it!

    Comment by David Moss — April 8, 2006 @ 11:40 am

  251. ok. To go along with your first comment, I am not a loser. I think you are though, and according to how many comments you leave on this site, you spend every day here. Second, I am 16. That would be a good four years older than you. Which means I probably know more than you, which means that you shouldn’t be talking to me about good schools and all that. WE HAVE ALREADY ESTABLISHED THAT DUNCANVILLE IS RICH. But, I did notice that my town is still richer than yours, by A LOT, even though your info is from 2006 and mine is from 2000. If you find my town from 2006 I can bet that it is still richer.

    Comment by Emma — April 9, 2006 @ 10:33 am

  252. oh, and David Moss, may I ask where you live?

    Comment by Emma — April 9, 2006 @ 11:06 am

  253. You are so juvinile…you have no idea

    Comment by Emma — April 10, 2006 @ 9:24 pm

  254. Please JONATHAN,
    Duncanville schools are probably inferior to that of Emma’s. I’m sure Duncanville schools are inferior to any other district.

    Here are some stastics on Duncanville High School

    Economically disadvantaged: 34%
    Special education: 11%
    Gifted and talented: 11%
    Limited English proficient: 5%

    Hmm yeah top-notch education.

    Comment by Jonathan1 — April 11, 2006 @ 12:20 pm

  255. Um no. The best school in US is some school in Alabama (via Newsweek). Just because you think a school is the best doesn’t make it the best. There’s a difference between reality and fiction. It also isn’t the biggest. I’m seen schools in Florida with much higher populations. Duncanville High School seems to lack a blue-ribbon quality.

    Comment by Jonathan1 — April 12, 2006 @ 10:02 am

  256. Thank you Johnathan1. By the way, where did you get your information? But, JONATHAN, I have to tell you that just because your school is big, doesn’t mean that it is good. My high school is an $80 million dollar project, and a huge school. It doesn’t mean it is the best.

    Comment by Emma — April 12, 2006 @ 8:40 pm

  257. Emma
    I got my info from Newsweek’sp ublic school rankings. If you just google newsweek + top schools I’m sure you’ll find it.

    Comment by Jonathan1 — April 13, 2006 @ 12:10 pm

  258. Emma, Jonathan 1, David, and whoever:
    Why are you fighting with a dumb immature 12 (12!!!) year old, who says he has the biggest and best school in the world, and lives in a 7.3 million dollar house where the most expensive house is around $400,000? Why do you validate and legitimize this midget from Texas who writes like he is from the ghetto in Detroit and drinks Kool Aid all day? This person is just a little kid without friends who discovered this site on the computer. Jonathan, go back to your computer games, and quit the immature bullshit, because you sound like the special ed kids at your junior high school. If you actually are special ed, which you sound like, then I apologize, but stay off this site anyway……..By the way, isn’t it past your bedtime?

    Comment by Amazed — April 13, 2006 @ 2:44 pm

  259. Amazed:
    That’s a good question… I find it kind of fun to argue with him. You are probably right, and I should probably stop picking fights with him. thank you, Johnathan1

    Comment by Emma — April 13, 2006 @ 4:26 pm

  260. I don’t know. Guess I was bored. It helps pass the time. Np Emma.

    Comment by Jonathan1 — April 13, 2006 @ 7:55 pm

  261. Hi,
    Some Google alert brought up this blog page – so i searched for my last name on it (“Goldey”) and figured out this blog contains a couple quotes from me :) I’m that guy who’s company provides tons of stats and info to companies like CNN, Forbes, Fortune, etc. for their stories on wealthiest Zip code, best places to live, etc.

    I’m not going to promise to read this blog all the time, but if you see a story somewhere or have a question for me about it, or what we do here at http://www.onboardllc.com, let me know. You can send questions or links to posts on the blog you might want me to look at to content@onboardllc.com – might take me a couple days but i’ll try and get back to you.

    Our entire business involves collecting and aggregating information like this.

    Comment by Peter — April 13, 2006 @ 9:49 pm

  262. The structure of the home is built and I walked in it late one night. It’s right near Demarest farm. I forget the road, it’s in a col-de-sac. Very extravagant home, looks like a princesses palace.

    Comment by Jane — April 14, 2006 @ 4:37 am

  263. Awesome.

    Comment by Jonathan1 — April 14, 2006 @ 6:19 pm

  264. Hi jane,
    I’m a huge Lil’ KIim fan taking a triip to NY/NJ this summer, even though shes in jail. Is there any way you can remeber the street so i can check out her house?

    Comment by Chris Jackson — April 14, 2006 @ 9:09 pm

  265. Yeah i live in fairfield county. People say that all of us kids who live here are all snotty and spoiled. but so what? we have money and we find no reason to hide it. people get jelous of our lives but its not our fault that our parents make alot of money. we deserve it. we all have alot of money so we all act the same, snobby and spoiled. But that is the way of living here. Our hosues are some of peoples dream houses. We are lucky ot live in them… we deserve it.

    Comment by Jennifer — April 17, 2006 @ 11:35 pm

  266. oh, wow. JONHATHAN, what is your problem? For the last time, Dallas might be rich, it might have SOME rich people (which you might be one of) but the majority of Dallas isn’t overly rich. Never said they were poor, but they just aren’t all that rich. and, yes the schools might be good, but they aren’t going to be great. They just aren’t. Unless you go to a private school, Dallas is a big city, and big city schools usually aren’t all that great. There, is that what you wanted to hear? Dallas might be rich or whatever, but it deffinatly not the richest, and its schools are deffinatly not the best in the nation. If you want to prove me wrong, link a website with valid information…

    And btw, Jennifer, what part of FC do you live in?

    Comment by Emma — April 18, 2006 @ 11:01 am

  267. I currently live in Loudoun County, Virginia…and damn. Nothing but golf courses. A TOWNHOME HERE IS STARTING AT $950,000!!!!!! Now they’re building World Trade Center – Dulles in Loudoun….which should generate over 35,000 jobs…Virginia – Fairfax and Loudoun deff the richest counties in America. So many governmental jobs opening up…its insane…LCPS this year alone built 3 high schools, 5 middle schools, and 6 elementary schools. We have a local ferrari/maserati dealer…im just mentioning this because i moved from Wisconsin…and the change was really dramatic. My current house costed around $900k, its in a countryclub though….but im sure i could have gotten the same thing for about $500-550k in wisconsin. Especially since 9/11….near washington DC is the place to be….the real estate cash crop –> Loudoun/Fairfax.

    Comment by 2PInZ — April 18, 2006 @ 9:39 pm

  268. JONATHAN can’t seem to keep his CAPS LOCK or language under control, so he has been removed from this site and is no longer welcome here.

    Comment by roj — April 23, 2006 @ 4:43 pm

  269. April 24th NY Post listed the richest towns in the USA….the top two were 1) Sagaponack NY and 2) Rancho Santa Fe, CA

    Comment by Jane — April 26, 2006 @ 4:06 am

  270. http://biz.yahoo.com/special/luxury0427_article1.html

    The latest article, in which California (over 50%) and New York (20%) completely dominate the list.

    Comment by Diamond — April 27, 2006 @ 1:05 pm

  271. Hey guys,

    Just wanted to drop a line…1st of all I was an orphan I am very fortunate to have been adopted my nice people when I was 4( Im 21 now) I was never spoiled b/c ll the money to do business was loans…in other worsds my parents are self made and theyre only moderately in the money . They live in Florida I am still waiting for a VISA so I live in Canada now. Anyways, I have a very real appreciation of a dollar…AND YES WEALTHY PEOPLE ARE STUCK UP!!!!! THINK ABOUT IT! Have you ever thought of doing something wrong or saying something bad but held back? WHY? BECAUSE EITHER U REALIZED IT WOULD BE WRONG … OR YOU KNEW EVEN IF U GOT SATISFACTION ULTIMATELY IT MAY HURT SOMEONE. WEALTHY PEOPLE FOR THE MOST PART DONT THINK THIS WAY… WHY ? BECAUSE THEY HAVE MOTHING TO LOSE!!!! THEY DONT HAVE A CONSCIENCE. I WILL TELL YOU TAHT AS A KID I SOLD CHOCOLATE BARS FOR ONE OF MY EARLY JOBS…EVERY TIME I WENT TO A LARGE HOME I GOT A COLD RECEPTION..WHY? WHAT IS $3.00 TO A PERSON WHO IS THAT WEALTHY???? YES THEY CAN BUY THE CHOCOLATE ANYTIME…BUT THEN IT WOULDNT BE HELPING A CAUSE RIGHT…OH I GET IT! IT WOULD HAVE HELPED SOMEONE! NOW I UNDERSTAND! YOU KNOW TO THIS DAY IM IN SALES NOW AND I REFUSE TO CALL ON WEALTHY PROSPECTS…WHY WASTE THE TIME ANDD FACE HUMILIATION(TAKE ME OFF UR LIST…PRIVATE RESIDENCE…WHERE’D U GET MY# BLAH BLAH BLAH) NOW THE OLDER GENERATION…YES SOME OF THEM ARE VERY NICE AND GENEROUS. BUT THE SPOILED KIDS? HELL NO! THEY ARE THE EPITOME OF THE RUB IN – STUCK UP SNOTS – THE “PARIS HILTIONS” OF THE WORLD IF U WILL AND THEY DESERVE TO BE FUCKED UP SO THEY KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE IN AN AVERAGE PERSON’S LIFE! B/C THATS THE ONLY WAY THEY LEARN…HOW CAN U APPRECIATE SOMETHING IF IT IS ALWAYS THERE…STARING YOU IN THE FACE…LIKE MONEY????

    THANKS FOR READING MY POST

    Comment by Amin — May 3, 2006 @ 5:52 am

  272. I will stick to my house in Olney, MD. Todays value is around 1.4mil, I have been here for 19 years. I moved from Chevy Chase, D.C. (2 blocks from the Montgomery County line). I bought my first house (D.C.) in 1960. Payed 15k for a little 3 bedroom, 1 1/4 bath tudor on just under an 8th of an acre. Sold it in 1987 for 635k. The guy I sold it to just sold it (in Jan) for 2.2mil and it needs work. I still think Chevy Chase D.C./MD.,Bethesda, and Potomac (especially Avenel)have to be among the top richest areas in the US. I am now retired and live on a fixed income, but I too appreciate the value of a dollar. Worked very hard for them for 40 years. In my last years of work, I was making upwards of 190k. I never flaunted having money as a matter of fact in 89 I bought a Dodge RamCharger and still drive it today (442,000 miles on it), made donations to the local fire dept, helped with the local boy scout troups, and even bought some homeless people some food. (sorry, I’m ramblin, thinkin about the post above mine. To think I was just looking to find out the richest county in the US to help my son on a report for school…..Have a great day :)

    Comment by Bob — May 5, 2006 @ 1:56 am

  273. yea, I have to say not all rich kids are stuck up. We do volunteer, and give money. And yes, the majority hate it when people call asking for money, but, who doesn’t? Besides, not everyone grows up like “Paris Hilton”. we do have jobs, and we do pay for some of our own things. It isn’t at all like you think. and by the way, my parents are “self made”. They both came here from different countries as kids. They just got a good education and went to great colleges and are both doctors. not everyone who is rich now, started off rich in the beggining

    Comment by Emma — May 6, 2006 @ 5:35 pm

  274. To all those who read this website, you might want to see what the author of Meta-Roj thinks about you (under “sad” June 2005 comments posted by the author). She/he believes that the people on this site are pathetic, and finds the “pissing matches” between writers who think that their town is richer is entertaining. She also cannot believe that this site has gotten so many hits, more so than more substantial sites of hers/his. She calls all the writers and readers of this site “sad” and treats this like her own science experiment, which I guess would make her Frankenstein, since he/she created it in the first place. What do you think of that?

    Comment by Amazed — May 10, 2006 @ 11:19 am

  275. I think many of you are confusing facts. There is a difference between the wealth of residents in a particular city, county, etc. and other aspects of what makes an area expensive, typically this is expressed through the previous year’s average selling price of a home. Key words that make it very specific!

    Here is a URL to Forbes’ list of the most expensive zip codes. I think it’s for 2005.

    http://www.forbes.com/2005/04/25/cx_sc_0426homeslide.html?partner=lycos

    Comment by Matt — May 18, 2006 @ 4:57 pm

  276. Roj can lick my grundle hairs!

    I can care less what he/she thinks of the writers in this blog.

    It just comes to prove how pathetic/”sad” most people really are. Sure ??? will fake their identity or just tell the truth, but thats life. I return to this site a year since june and all I see is a series of attacks by people who should be out and about, exploring the area surrounding their place of residence. An area’s value can not be meaasured by popular extxravagent houses and automoniles from which you view the outside. You should be tortured if you think Michael Jordan or Allen is the life of an entire county. Who cares…. not i…not the people that work for me. The value of life and activity outside of your own should be the measure of a good community or county. Falls church, Woodbridge, Burke, Chantillyi, etc…name it, I do not give a shit…lol
    all have there ups and downs, but they are so damn wealthy in the quality of activity….
    the poor become wealthy and rich, well you all should know hehe… -.-

    see what ur county does for you and then u can determine it’s value.

    im too tired and wanted to post something before i sleep…the cycle continues

    I enjoy a wealthy and a high quality of life.

    Virginia For The Win!!!and thank you…VA so far, has showed more class than the previous writers.

    respect one another and maybe your words will be more meaningful. grow up a little ^^ 17

    Comment by Allen — May 24, 2006 @ 7:16 am

  277. I live in Somerset County, Bound Brook to be exact and I just think it’s funny how people comment just to bash other towns and people, thinking they’re the wealthiest. My county definitley has it’s poor parts, BB isn’t exactly a town of gold,after all its only square mile, but it definitley has it’s great areas. And just by taking a look at the surrounding towns, you’ll know why we’re on the list. The houses on the hills looking over everyone are ridiculously big and extravagent. But I’m sure everyone elses counties are just as nice but obviously something was missing if it didn’t make the list or didn’t rank high. And for that person who bashed NJ you’re just fucking jelous you don’t live here. Jersey is the best and I feel sorry for you having to live in such a lameass place. Lastly, Jersey kicks ass!!!

    Comment by Car — May 26, 2006 @ 10:56 pm

  278. Car, isn’t that a little bit Contradictory? Are you against bragging about wealth or for?

    Comment by Emma — May 30, 2006 @ 6:21 pm

  279. People…Ya’ll need to go on Realtor.com and type in JACKSON, WYOMING. The most expensive home there sits on 174 acres of land is 3 bedroom and 2,000square feet and is praiced at 40 Million dollars. I think Teton county is the winner.

    Comment by Jane — May 31, 2006 @ 10:59 pm

  280. Don’t listen to little Jonathan everybody. I live near Duncanville. In fact I am moving to Cedar Hill which borders Duncanville. You will not find a $7.3 million dollar home in Duncanville. The biggest home will probably cost $1 million at the most. You can get 4,000 square feet which is considered a McMansion I think for about $225.

    Comment by crazya — June 1, 2006 @ 1:15 am

  281. There are a lot of rich counties in New York, New Jersey, California, Florida, and Illinois. YOu have to take into consideration that because you see 10 or 11 blocks with real big homes, that will not put your county at the top of the most expensive counties.

    For example, Dallas has these areas called Preston Hollow, University Park, and Highland Park. In these communities that are connected live anybody well-known in Dallas. Every Dallas billionaire lives there. Jerry Jones place is worth $20 billion, Tom Hicks (owner of the Dallas Stars and Texas Rangers) place is $24 million on 20 acres. Mark Cuban (Mavericks) bought his 24,000 sq foot home for $15 million. Kenny Troutt, Ross Perot, Dirk Nowitzki, Harold Simmons, Trammell Crow, Troy Aikman, and countless others.

    On streets like Beverly Drive in Highland Park, homes start at $1.5 million. On streets like Deloache in Mark Cuban’s areas, it starts $3.5 million. The last multiple acre parcel in Ross Perot’s area of 20 acres sold for $35 million.

    I know people named Bloomfield Hills, places in Tenn., and Kentucky. But you have to look at the big picture. Places like Bergen County have small populations with big incomes. Big incomes turn into big homes. Big homes with small populations and proximity to the “Big Apple” equals high valuations.

    The idea is don’t get caught up in that fact your city has big homes and people driving nice cars. That doesn’t neccassarily equate to great wealth. In a few months, I am moving to a area where the average home is 5,000 square feet; but I’ll pay only about $600k for my home. People in this area do have $100k and up salaries, but they don’t have old money like Bergen and Fairfax counties. No offense, but my community that I’ll be at soon is full of working-class families. We have big homes on acreage near full-shopping. 15 minutes from downtown Dallas.

    But there are a lot of rich people out there. But more living in poverty to. Remember, 300 million Americans. Do this for me since everybody thinks there town is so rich and wealthy.

    Take the city population and divide buy the number of $1 million + homes and it will show you the ratio of people living in homes under $1 million to 1.

    Example: Gety County population = 500,000
    Number of homes over $1 mill + = 500
    = 1000:1 (for every thousand people, 1 lives in a $1 million plus home.

    Comment by crazya — June 1, 2006 @ 1:33 am

  282. I live in Somerset county, Hillsborough township to be exact as far as im concerned its a pretty nice place and I enjoyed growing up there but everybody else I know absolutley cannot stand it and they all think I am crazy for liking it. Is there any particular reason for this? personaly I enjoy living in New Jersey it has a little bit of everything beaches, malls, close proximity to NYC and Philly. and even some rural areas espially in the far north and in the southern part of it. Just because the beaches arent like the ones in florida or the rural areas are not as pretty as Wyoming or Oregon its still a pretty decent state, not to mention it is home to alot of corperate offices and some very wealthy comunities. Everyone in this blog seems to agree that it is a nice place but like I said before all my friends dont really like it and do not appreciate it.
    I hope somebody can give me a good solution to this problem and someting besides saying it has Newark.
    Please somebody responde!!!

    WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE HATE NEW JERSEY???????????

    Comment by James — June 1, 2006 @ 8:37 pm

  283. well i disagree partly with crazya. duncanville is super rich, but i dont live in duncanville, i just go to school in duncanville. i live in a neighbor hood really close to duncanville, and it is super rich. i go to the best school district in texas, and one of the best districts in the country. DUNCANVILLE ISD!!

    Comment by manuel — June 5, 2006 @ 8:31 pm

  284. well in dallas there are way more than 10 or 11 blocks of big houses and duncanville is getting way richer, because they are making a whole bunch of new houses. apparently crazya hasnt been to duncanville while you are talking all them lies. they are making new houses in duncanville that are starting between $1.5 million – $3.0 million dollars. there is a hidden area where the houses cost between $2.5 million – and $5.5 million dollars. and plus how rich a city has to do with the houses, but it also has to do a lot with a city’s economy, and duncanville is super rich in its economy.

    Comment by manuel — June 8, 2006 @ 4:05 pm

  285. People please, NJ is a fucking amazing place to live. Have you ever bin to Saddle River–A MAZING!. The houses there are ginormas and celebs of all kind live there,for eg,Russel Simmons, EVE,the O’Hara’s and alot fucking more. All of you who are hating on NJ stop, you guys are just mad that you are not part of the circle. Saddle River is the fucking coolest, I love it here.All the houses have tennis courts with half a million cars parked infront of them guarded by two security men.It a fabulous life to live guys–sorry you are not part of it, all you haters grow the hell up.

    Comment by JJ — June 10, 2006 @ 6:23 pm

  286. i actually thought that weston connecticut would make the list. people i know from there are so rich that they dont care what to do with there money. it probably didnt because no one has probably heard of the place before its so small.

    Comment by sm — June 12, 2006 @ 10:28 pm

  287. everyone in this blog are low life assholes that have no education and sit around all day pretending to be and important person in society by saying the are rich.

    New York city is the most expensive place to live case closed! everyone has herd this plenty of times. Rich in anyother town doesn’t compare to the rich or new york. Its a completely differnt level. Everyone has herd that new york has the most expensive everything. A bottle of poland spring water cost 3.50. Try to afford that texas or illinois. Lets be resonable. WE all know it. LA/orange county is a very close second. Don’t believe me e-mail me chrisd050@yahoo.com

    Comment by Chris — June 13, 2006 @ 12:25 am

  288. ok, umm, chris, that in itself is a contradiction. Didn’t you just say, “everyone in this blog are low life assholes that have no education and sit around all day pretending to be and important person in society by saying the are rich”? and then you go on to say that New York is the richest in the nation. That makes no sense. By the way, SM, Weston is part of FC (fairfield county), so yes, it did make the list.

    Comment by Emma — June 13, 2006 @ 5:30 pm

  289. Well, I cannot comment on the North Shore because I do not live there. What I can tell you that in the wealthy areas of NJ, the people are basically animals. You have never met a bunch of more arrogant people and while there is some wealth here, there is also a bunch of consumer debt in the form of credit card balances and 2nd mortgages. In this part of the country, its all about appearances. Wonder how many people are more than 2 mos late with the lease payment on the Benz – a whole bunch I’ll bet. And the guy with the plain cloths and beater of a car, he’s the one with the 8 figure net worth!

    Comment by jason — June 15, 2006 @ 2:20 pm

  290. OK, let me hook you dumb people up real quick. OK, dallas is the richest city in the U.S. AND chris, in TEXAS a bottle of ozarka water costs 3.99. i would really like to see new york’s water cost that much. and that’s just the cheapest price in dallas. I’ve bought a bottle of water for up to 6.50, but there are more expensive in other places in DALLAS. clothes can cost a lot too. all of my shirts cost $55 +, and my pants cost $70 +. in duncanville you can find the most luxurious apartments there are, and houses too. town homes also. there are some townhomes in the east end of duncanville that are starting between $850,000- $1.3 million.

    Comment by manuel — June 19, 2006 @ 5:17 pm

  291. AND DUNCANVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is the largest school in america. by largest we don’t mean by its population, we mean by its SIZE!!!!!! and it still has 4,198 students!!

    Comment by manuel — June 20, 2006 @ 4:30 pm

  292. Wow. JONATHAN made a new account. How pitiful. Duncanville High School is the SECOND largest in the nation. Dallas County is to big to have a high income. Duncanville’s real estate is to cheap. However there are SOME wealthy suburbs throughout Dallas County.

    Comment by Jonathan — June 20, 2006 @ 7:26 pm

  293. The United States of America is home to many of the poorest people in the developed world. Europeans don’t believe me that someone could live on the streets, could go without food ot without shelter, could die of hunger or cold. They can’t believe that the great country that we were could leave any of its proud citizens behind. I lived in Western Europe and the British Isles for eight years and let me tell you, no one has an uncomfortable life. They take care of their people. There is unemployment still, largely due to the disparity between skills from the DDR not being applicable to available Western jobs, but people on unemployment are taken care of. Single parents are supported. Disabled individuals are supported. The elderly are not forgotten. And there are no great class differences. There are richer and poorer people but it isn’t much of a factor in everyday life. And it is stable.

    Your pretty expensive cities do not mean that the economy is going well. At this point, with very kind rough numbers, the top 70% of the wealth of the country is concentrated in the top 2 percent or so, with another 3 percent, the somewhat rich, owning 15% of the rest; then the rapidly sliding middle class is perhaps 10% of the people and earns say 10% of the wealth, leaving the remaining 5% of the wealth of the country to sprinkle inadequately over the rest, 85 percent of the country.

    So a child to be born into this country has an 85% chance of being born into a poverty situation living with approximately (just under) .0006 of what is needed for a comfortable life (I am obviously basing this on middle class, as you noticed above). That same child has also a ten percent chance of living comfortably; a three percent chance of living at 5 x more than comfort; and a 2% chance at a living standard 35 times more than a person could reasonably ask for.

    If it really were a lottery, it would be a small step closer to being fair, for then the wealth would, albeit slowly, spread around to different people with different ideas of how to use it. But it’s not.

    The economy is not measured by how many mansions there are, how much fun the multi-billionaires are having. And my math has been kind here: The true numbers are far more staggering. The economy is based on the fact that the richest person owns or earns 58,333 times the salary of one of the 85% — the rest of the population; that is, we earn .000017 the salary of the rich family.

    Those are the numbers that are spiraling out of control and the discrepancy is growing multiplicatively larger. The economy sucks, and those of you proud of your old money toys and clothes are simply spoiled and unfeeling individuals. And don’t tell me a billionaire works harder for money than a man or woman who does backbreaking work in a field, a construction worker, a police officer, a nurse, a receptionist in a busy place… some of those people earn minimum wage. Billionaires do not have to work for their money, they can sit on their asses on some beach island somewhere as their money does the work for them, raking in millions of dollars of interest that the billionaire not only did not work for, but also that he or she does not need!

    The economy sucks. And it’s getting worse by the second. Don’t tell me the economy’s good because daddy or mommy is bringing in three more digits of income. That money came out of my pocket and my food supply. There are people not eating so that you can have that extra money. Why do I keep thinking of Scrooge rolling in his gold when I read your comments?

    La la la la la what is my point? Stop bragging about your money and start using it to help people. Stop measuring the economy by your moneypot and start noticing your neighbours. Fairfield County in CT is awfully close to the second poorest city in the nation, Bridgeport CT. 20 minutes on the highway? Say hi. Ask the mayor what the best way would be for you to use your money for the town: library hours? summer camp? sufficient books in school? setting up small loans for small businesses? a senior center? girls baseball team? I’ll give you a blow job if you do it!!! And I DO give a Mind-Blowing Blow job.

    Comment by Natasha — June 20, 2006 @ 8:00 pm

  294. The problem with this topic is that is is not very specific. There are places in America where homes are very expensive yet the income level of the homeowners are unknown becasue some of these places like, Aspen CO or Jackson WY, are vacation spots for the rich and famous. Not necessarily places to make money but to spend it. I think it’s fair to say that most major US cities feature very affluent suburbs. (NYC has Saddle River, Manhasset, Purchase etc…Los Angeles has Beverly Hills…Philadelphia has the Main Line. So on and so forth) Pretty much all those towns and more contain huge homes, pricey cars and luxury shopping. Yet if you want to get nitty gritty and find the most expensive place to live it is far and away NYC. Why? It is an island. Space is extremely limited, thus to live there one must have a nice fat wallet. Most of the billionairs in the US reside or have made there money in NYC. To lease store space on 5th Avenue is over 900 dollas a square foot! That is the most expensive square foot in the world! My God, just to get into NYC from the suburbs will cost you a pretty penny too with tolls and parking. I think we can end this topic with NYC topping the list. And if you want to know about suburbs…Sagaponack NY in The Hamptons is (according to the NY Post) the most expensive suburban real estate in the US. Just a tiny fact, some billionair is constructing what will be the largest home in America. The yearly taxes on the property will exceed $390,000 dollar.

    Comment by Jane — June 21, 2006 @ 2:58 am

  295. who’s jonathan. the only jonathan in here is you. dumbass. and by the way duncanville HS is the largest school in america, just that they are still not finished with the construction. and real estate is not cheap in duncanville. The average house costs 315,000. and there are a lot of other rich suburbs. like highland park, university park, the colony, frisco, rockwall, duncanville, desoto, irving, etc.

    Comment by manuel — June 21, 2006 @ 1:40 pm

  296. “Manuel” *sigh*. Look up Duncanville High on wikipedia. ITs not the largest school. Clear and simple. Please calm down. What’s the point of getting all mad due to the fact a city you claim is wealthy is not? 315k for a house is very affordable. In my area it’d get you a run down house in a cruddy area. 600k can get you into modest homes in more desirable areas. Chill dude.

    Comment by Jonathan — June 21, 2006 @ 7:39 pm

  297. *************************************************
    First off, I need to clarify a bit to the people who remain ignorant to the fact…Northern Virginia, should not be considered anything like the rest of Virginia. It not only differs in its material comfort, but in its overall demeanor as well. If I had it my way, it would be a separate state, regardless of loosing its coveted “original thirteen colony statehood” position. NOVA (Northern Virginia) virtually carries the entire state. In fact, there are 15 counties Virginia which place in the top 100 highest-income counties by median household income, (the highest number of counties of any state) and all of them are in NOVA.
    And, who holds the venerated position as the shining capitol of affluence in all of NOVA? It is, of course, none-other then Fairfax County. Fairfax County, which despite an employment base that draws a huge number of low-income immigrants, causing a spike of approximately 25% foreign born citizens, still ranks number two in highest income counties by median household income according to the US Census Bureau: 2000 census. The county has an estimated 4,000 technology companies among the area’s 22,000 businesses and trade associations boasting one of America’s most diverse economies. Ranked as one of the nation’s largest suburban office markets, it is headquarters for several Fortune 500 companies: General Dynamics, Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae, Capital One Financial and most recently, the Mid-Atlantic headquarters of Microsoft. Fairfax was the first in the nation to break the $90,000 median family income bracket and is statistically considered to be America’s wealthiest county. Fairfax boasts a first rate public school system and has nearly 30,000 acres of parkland.
    There is much explaining that I could do, but I shall impede urge to continue speaking about the government and office buildings, the people, the old money, so forth and so on. One final note, however, a chart, listing the richest counties with a population of 250,000 people are more.

    Richest counties with a population of 250,000 or more
    Rank City Median household income, 2004
    1 Fairfax County, VA $83,975
    2 Somerset County, NJ $84,892
    3 Morris County, NJ $83,583
    4 Montgomery County, MD $82,971
    5 Howard County, MD $82,065
    6 Nassau County, NY $78,762
    7 Prince William County,VA$77,678**
    8 Monmouth County, NJ $77,223
    9 Rockland County, NY $75,306
    10 Santa Clara County, CA $74,509
    11 Fairfield County, CT $73,110
    12 Chester County, PA $72,288
    13 Suffolk County, NY $71,956
    14 McHenry County, IL $71,153
    15 Bergen County, NJ $70,957
    16 Norfolk County, MA $70,903
    17 Lake County, IL $70,347
    18 Middlesex County, NJ $70,344
    19 DuPage County, IL $70,174
    20 Westchester County, NY $70,095
    **(Neighboring county to Fairfax, VA)
    *************************************************

    Comment by Eric — June 28, 2006 @ 9:15 am

  298. I read this blog for the first time in a few months today, and had to shake my head. Jonathan from Dncanville has now become “Manuel” from Duncanville, and the battle rages on who lives in the richest place. Some day all of you will get it that wealthy people can live wherever they want, and it is not the place that makes them who they are. Put Wellesley, Ma, Villanove, Pa, Scarsdake, NY, Hinsdale or Winnetka, IL, Scottsdale, AZ, Newport Beach or Beverly Hills, CA in a bag and mix them up, and they are the same. What is important is if they are the peo;le who live in these places are happy, because if they move from one place to another, and they are not, it means nothing.

    Comment by Amazed — June 28, 2006 @ 11:16 am

  299. It’s amazing how all the idiots on this forum completely ignore any of the sensible people (such as myself or Amazed etc…) They blab on and on about “thier rich town” and “thier rich fathers.” As if any of them have a single concept of money managment, bills, taxes etc. This is a note to most of the morons on this site (you know who you are, or maybe you don’t because you are so self-centered) but ummm….do yourselves a favor and become paper wieghts.

    Comment by Jane — July 1, 2006 @ 3:11 am

  300. I have to say I agree with Amazed. And you can’t really judge the way that other people live just by figures. There are some poorer people in richer areas, and there are richer people in poorer areas. It really depends on the way that these people want to live and where they want to live.

    Comment by Emma — July 2, 2006 @ 12:05 pm

  301. Look amazed, i don’t know what’s up with you and this jonathan boy. it’s okay that i’m from duncanville too. but that doesn’t mean i’m that jonathan boy. don’t think that he’s the only person that lives in duncanville, or the only person from duncanville that comes to this site.

    Comment by manuel — July 2, 2006 @ 1:44 pm

  302. You people are all wrong and pathetic. Any of you who live in Illinois or Wyoming may think you know what it is to be a baller, but then you haven’t been to Boston, New York or Connecticut. Almost all towns in Massachusetts have starter homes for no less than $500 grand, but thats in the crappiest places. Decent suburbs easily surpass $1 million wherever you go in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and Jersey. You people out west thing you own life, but people all over the place out here are ballers chillin in Nantucket, the Vineyard and the Hamptons. Difference is, we don’t need to brag about our shit, we just know it.

    Comment by Andy — July 7, 2006 @ 11:27 am

  303. Haha, i like your thinkning, andy.

    Comment by Emma — July 7, 2006 @ 3:31 pm

  304. After reading the majority of this blog which has lasted nearly a year and a half,(pretty impressive I might say), there are a few conclusions which can sum everything up and finally end all this madness.

    My name is Joe I am 20 years old and I am from Darien, IL. It is a suburb of Chicago in Dupage County.

    I have spent lots of time in all of these locations named. I traveled the East Coast visiting Seattle down to San Diego. Stayed in Yorba Linda, Orange, and Laguna. Traveling through the west in the Rockies, all throughout Vail, Aspen, Keystone, Steamboat, you name it. I am from Chicagoland so I know the area. I currently go to Michigan State so I know all about Oakland County (the other OC). I’ve stayed in Bloomfield Hills and I have friends who went to Cranbrook. I have family in Somerset and Middlesex, NJ (remember Donnie Darko). I’ve spent time in Fairfax County I actually flew in through Washington Dulles. I have worked in the real estate, mortgage, and financial services business for the past several years. I have analyzed people’s assets, and home prices my entire life.

    Notice the three main places in the country where most people on this blog are from, or talking about. SoCal, Chicagoland, and NY(surrounding proximities). The fact is they all excel in some aspects. Hands down the MOST expensive place to live in this country is California. Still someone living on the NorthShore of Chicago can still erect a monster in the hills overlooking Anaheim. One thing I have noticed working around the country is where assets are placed. People near Chicago and New York see to have placed the vast majority of there wealth in the marketplace. (IE: stock market, in the US and abroad) Where as people from Cali have moved their money into Real Estate, and other highly fixed assets. This is causing the people from both NY and Chicago to gain quickly in wealth on the Californian’s. Especially the people from the Midwest because of the lower taxes…It is a balance of power like anything else. If one side gets to rich they will start buying from the cheaper side and it will all balance out.

    The bottom line is they are all equally wealthy in their own ways. All on average -> Cali has the most expensive houses/cars. Chicagoland has the most liquid assets and second homes. New York has the most market cap influence.

    Say what you want to say, these are the bottom lines.

    I have also been all over Europe…even people below the poverty line are wearing LV, Gucci, and drive BMW’s and Mercedes. Oh wait…that’s because it’s made 100 yards from their house; and they tax the shit out of us to ship it all the way to Sunset Blvd. Keep that in mind. =)

    Just my 2 cents.

    JV

    p.s. – Sucks for FL…I guess everyone is just old as shit there and no one cares about them anymore. Good Riddance…they put Bush in the seat 6 years ago and have put us through this undying hell ever since.

    Comment by Joe V — July 7, 2006 @ 3:48 pm

  305. Haha Joe I like that last comment of yours. Everytime I visit a relative in Naples [Fl] I always bring that up in which they reply “I didnt move for him!” and get all mad and flustered.

    Comment by Jonathan — July 8, 2006 @ 9:30 pm

  306. I can’t believe some of the things you people have bragged about in this blog, regardless of them being true or not. The fact of the matter is, the most affluent places in the country surround the major urban epicenters. The northeast, especially Massachusetts and Connecticut, is relatively small. Subjectively, Massachusetts and Connecticut are more expensive overall than places like California because a higher percentage of towns in our region are very expensive rather than a bunch of affluent towns in Cali that are spread over such a large state. And for all the arrogant people that brag here, some of the wealthiest people I know (which I’m definately sure is waaaaaaay richer than what you people say you are) drive normal cars and live in relatively normal, albeit expensive homes. It’s classy to be unpretentious, and it’s arrogant, snobby, and pathetic to brag especially if you’re lying….don’t try to boost your ego on the internet. Get the facts.

    Comment by Drew — July 12, 2006 @ 3:45 am

  307. 95% of the people on this blog should be thrown down a 400ft elevator shaft. You guys are pretentious savages.

    Comment by Jane — July 17, 2006 @ 2:17 pm

  308. I live in a town outside of Princeton called Montgomery and it is located in Somerset County. i live one hour away from NYC and Phily. I live 5 min. away from Princeton which is where one of the finest Universities is located. i also live about 1.5 hours from Atlantic City. the houses here are soooo expensive not just because of how massive they are and how well-located they are but we have the best public school in the state and top 5 in the country. Like the builder said before, there are so many BMWs, Mercedes, Jaguars, Lexus, and other fancy cars here. A town house here costs about 700,000. this is why we are num ber 4, used to be 2.

    Comment by BDog793 — July 19, 2006 @ 1:09 am

  309. New York is the richest place in the world don’t believe me e-mail me at chrisd050@yahoo.com and i can show you all the proof you need.

    Comment by Chris — July 21, 2006 @ 3:23 am

  310. Bergen County would by far be the richest county if you in esscence split it in half, even without it, it is top 5. Anything basicly north of route 4. They got Saddle River, Woodcliff Lake, Alpine, etc. etc.

    For someone asking about little kim, i know where her supposable hosue is, but i hear it is not hers no more. a view point is in hillsdale go past the demarest and at the next main street follow it right and you see it, it is GIGANTIC. But I hear that the owner of Crest now lives their. WCL is also a very rich town that is full of Well Known Doctors and Lawyers

    Comment by andrew — July 28, 2006 @ 3:40 am

  311. yeah, i was just looking online, on yahoo. and i found homes in dallas for more than 22 million dollars. it just comes to show how rich dallas really is!!

    Comment by MANUEL — July 28, 2006 @ 2:01 pm

  312. i have a cousin that lives in dallas. i live in chicago. my cousins house has 7 rooms, 3 living rooms, 1 kitchen, 2 dining rooms, 5 restrooms, 2 gamerooms, 1 music room, 1 storage room, and 1 pool room. his house costed 12.9 million dollars. so im going to have to go with jonathan on this one. dallas is the richest city!!

    Comment by greg — July 28, 2006 @ 2:19 pm

  313. I lived in Woodcliff Lake most of my life. Snobbiest town in the world…one of the reasons my family moved.

    Comment by Jane — July 28, 2006 @ 2:25 pm

  314. Greg, you must live on the west side of Chicago, and never ventured off your block, let alone the city!

    Comment by Elle — July 29, 2006 @ 12:48 am

  315. well y should i leave alone the poorest city on earth which is chicago!!! dallas is the richest city!! and i have to agree with manuel, i also found homes in dallas for more than 22 million dollars.

    Comment by greg — August 4, 2006 @ 1:42 pm

  316. Greg = Manuel = JONATHAN

    Comment by Jonathan — August 4, 2006 @ 3:10 pm

  317. I live in Greenwhich Connecticut, one of the richest places in the world. I was told that if Fairfeild county was a country it would be the richest country in the worl…crazy huh. here it is extremely snobby and rich. The houses run for a about 2 million average, with that pirce you would expect mansions but oh no small houses, but its all about location location location. Now 2 million to most here find that cheap so some find the need to flaunt their money and live in 30 million mansions in gated communities, I myself live in a 2 floor 4 bedroom 3 bathroom colonial. The one thing i love about livivng in a rich town is you never have to see poverty unless you leave the town. such as our capital Hartford, its the poorest capital but we’re the richest state….irony?

    Comment by Evana — August 8, 2006 @ 3:03 pm

  318. Jonathan, I like your math equation !! Manuel and Greg need to be institutionalized for multiple personalities, but maybe in the mental hospital (Duncanville Mental Ward??) probably the biggest in the world, just like everything else there, right Manuel/Greg/Jonathan?) they might get a life. Weren’t you three kicked off this site some time ago?

    Comment by Amazed — August 9, 2006 @ 6:54 pm

  319. here we go again jonathan. you know its jus t a coincidence that three people just come to the same conclusion. i dont even know who these people are. and plus why would i say that i’m from chicago, i hate chicago!!!!!!! hate it!!!! but either way dallas is still the best….. period!!!!!

    Comment by manuel — August 9, 2006 @ 8:27 pm

  320. here we go with you too amazed. plus there is no such thing as a mental ward over here. but you should know of one… right?? well anyways im just giving my opinion and so is greg and jonathan. its just a coincidence that 3 people come to the same conclusion. you are just thinking way out there. oh and probably jonathan was but me and greg havent. plus greg is from chicago, not from dallas!!!

    Comment by manuel — August 11, 2006 @ 6:25 pm

  321. The “Main Line” of Philadelphia is very wealthy. Towns like Gladwyne, Villanova and Wayne are filled with houses that range from 5 to 15 million dollars. Luxury cars clutter Lancaster Ave which runs the length of the Main Line. The local shopping includes stroes like Tiffany, Versace, Cartier etc. All the money is old and the people are really stuffy. Most of the kids go to private schools. I dunno, it’s a nice area.

    Comment by Michelle — August 18, 2006 @ 12:38 pm

  322. Apparently none of you have ever been to Boston. I live in a town called Andover, we have one of the best school systems in the country and Phillips Andover Academy (where the president among others went to prep school). In a town of roughly 32,000 people the average home in Andover sells for over $1 – 2 million. The reason my town and many others don’t get recognized in those lists is because many towns (or zip codes for that matter) have both nice areas and not so nice areas. For instance, Andover, Mass is one of the only affluent suburbs in Massachusetts to comply with Massachusetts’ “anti-snob” zoning law, section 40b, which means that a person making less than 70% of the average income of the area must be able to afford a property in atleast 10% of the town. Price floors cause actual real estate prices to level out. So for all you people in Chicago or Dallas or wherever, New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut are mostly where its at. And Boston is ballin.

    Comment by Andy — August 29, 2006 @ 4:39 pm

  323. Wow…you seemed semi-intelligent until the last sentence.

    Comment by Christina — August 29, 2006 @ 8:49 pm

  324. andy, you better not even put dallas in none of your bullshit. dallas is rich ok…. so doont even compare it to new york, massachusetts, or connecticut. dallas is as rich or probably richer than all 3 of them put together..

    Comment by manuel — September 12, 2006 @ 7:25 pm

  325. Fairfax haters!! Believe what you want.

    Comment by Christopher — September 22, 2006 @ 1:43 am

  326. Actually, Batavia New York is the richest town in the country. That’s right, Batavia. The best kept secret. Did you know that Jennifer Lopez REALLY lives there but just TELLS people she lives elsewhere…and Keanu Reeves? Born and bred there, and jets there to his second home…but wait, there’s more. You know the Tonawanda Creek, there? Well. It looks like a common, muddy old creek. But it’s actually an exclusive beach. It’s better than the Hamptons. You see, there is this secret entrance, and a whole world that no one knows about, with night clubs, and wealthy people with SIX mansions, not three—and five private jets. And wait…don’t stop reading this because every word is true…you know the Holland Land Office Museum, where the kids go for field trips? From the outside, it looks like a tiny museum, sort of pathetic—but INside, if you knock five times on a certain door (and I’m not telling which one); and ask for “Aldo”, it is actually the finest dining restaurant in the world. Jennifer Anniston goes there to hide out from the fans, and Brad Pitt goes there with Angelina Jolie.
    Batavia New York, folks. Their slogan isn’t really, “Community of opportunity.” Their true slogan is encrypted, and if you know the code, it reads, “You want rich? You found it, here.”

    But be careful—if you go there, you have to own at least six houses and a normal sized seventh house as a “play house” for your kids—before you can go to any of the events described above. And you have to bring proof of it. So…enjoy! And say hi to Aldo for me, if you go.

    Comment by Diane — October 1, 2006 @ 10:15 am

  327. Batavia New York? How big is that town? If you google the counties with the most millionaires, here is what you come up with.

    1. Los Angeles (CA) 262, 000
    2. Cook (IL) 167,000
    3. Orange (CA) 113,000
    4. Maricopa (AZ) 106 K
    5. San Diego (CA) 100 K
    6. Harris (TX) 96K
    7. Nassau (NY) 78K
    8. Santa Clara (CA)75 K
    9. Palm Beach (FL) 69 K
    10.Middelsex (MA) 67 K

    So, where are the Connecticuts, New York Cities, Dallas’, etc. on this list?? Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix, San Diego and Houston are tops. You can talk about your own statitics all you want, but its the metro areas that count, and I don’t see alot of the towns that you have been boasting about here on the list (that means you NY, CT, NJ, VA, MD, MA ). Because of the population difference, Cook IL has more millionaires per capita than LA County, although when you add Orange County to the mix, the total get impressive for the coast.

    Comment by Amazed — October 2, 2006 @ 5:05 pm

  328. well that’s the counties but with the cities it’s a whole different story……according to yahoo, dallas is the number 2 city with the most billionaires!!!!!! and also according to yahoo dallas is the third best city to be rich!!!!!!!!!!!

    Comment by manuel — October 2, 2006 @ 8:10 pm

  329. Manuel, just did. Didn’t see anything. What a surprise. Only one billionaire was mentioned, Mark Cuban, but alot was mentioned on the fact that Kennedy was assasinated in your redneck city. I bet this website keeps you up at night, when people mention cities other than Duncanville and Dallas, doesn’t it Manuel? You can tell it bothers you with all your explanation marks after every sentence, and your multiple names on this site. You seriously need to get a life, and get in a car someday and see places other than the hot dry prairie that you call home.

    Comment by Amazed — October 5, 2006 @ 10:06 am

  330. Manuel…cook county is where Chicago is. Chicago is a lot larger than Dallas. So don’t claim that with cities its a different story. It’s not. In fact…with all of the poor areas of chicago, the really rich areas balance that out. That is a much larger feat to overcome.

    Comment by Christina — October 5, 2006 @ 7:33 pm

  331. so what kennedy was assasinated here in dallas….. you are just going off the subject. That has nothing to do with how rich a city is!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i do have a life………. unlike some people that post something once they see me post something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and anyways i do get around in my car!!!!!!!!!!! i’ve been to chicago (poor city)…. but i bet you’re used to getting around in a public bus…. right?????????? and DALLAS is not a redneck city…………. well most of the population here is HISPANIC and MEXICAN (im mexican too)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not white people, so don’t call DALLLAS a redneck city……… the population might be more in chicago, but we have more land than chicago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and dallas is growing at a faster rate than chicago!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i’ve been to chicago….. its poor compared to DALLAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the only poor part of the city is oak cliff and pleasant grove…….. they also call those parts “the ghetto”. and other small neighborhoods. the rest of DALLAS is rich……… including the suburbs, like duncanville!!!!

    Comment by manuel — October 10, 2006 @ 8:33 pm

  332. MANUEL=PSYCHO BOY

    Comment by Amazed — October 12, 2006 @ 1:39 pm

  333. Can we just agree that every suburb outside a major city is wealthy? I mean, come one this is like seperating apples and oranges. and if you want to put something in cement…NYC is the wealthiest place in america…Pick up any magazine or newspaper and it will say so…I can tell you one word that will blow eveyone elses claim to pieces….ISLAND. ISLAND = Limited space + lots of people living/wanting to live there = Extreme proverty prices.

    Comment by Michelle — October 13, 2006 @ 2:30 am

  334. Takes one to no one…. right amazed???

    Comment by manuel — November 8, 2006 @ 7:02 pm

  335. God you superficial people are so fucking annoying…get a life. There is no reason to be this proud of having, or this impressed with money. It’s a meaningless, tangible substance which is simply a means to an end.

    Comment by Anonymous — January 27, 2007 @ 2:53 pm

  336. Oh, that’s kind of interesting. I live in Middlesex County, Massachusetts and I guess I’m not really surprised to find out that it has that many millionaires. That means that around 10% or more of the households in Middlesex County have a networth of over one million dollars. The county does include Wellesley, and Weston afterall: Wellesley’s per capita is somewhere around 135,000, and Weston’s is around 174,000. The thing I find most appealing about the county is that the people with money usually aren’t just born into it. There are amazing schools in the area, both secondary, and college. Boston (which is part of Suffolk County) has numerous colleges, and Cambridge has Harvard and MIT. As a result, many people work and work hard to earn so much money. Furthermore, once they have the money many people aren’t interested in flaunting it. It’s been going on for a LONG time, hence the term “Boston Brahmin” (although they did inherit their money, they didn’t carelessly spend it.). Also, most people will drive nice cars, but not ridiculously so. You’ll see plenty of Mercedes and BMWs and Lexuses, but hardly and Ferraris or Bentleys or Lamborghinis (although a dealer did just open north of Boston). This is because, again, people aren’t interested in showing off their wealth and all that BS. They’d rather have a really really really nice vacation home on Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket or something and a ski house up in NH.

    Comment by Alexander — January 27, 2007 @ 3:11 pm

  337. I’m only 15, but my entire family lives in westchester county. I don’t, I live in Douglas County, and I moved here 3 years ago from Marin County. I do have to say that Marin & Douglas are RICH places. But everything’s more expensive, so nobody really notices it.

    Drugs are alor more expensive here too, haha.

    Comment by ayla — January 29, 2007 @ 7:15 pm

  338. FAIRFAX VIRGINIA HAS TO BE THE RICHEST PLACE IN THE USA! WE ARE BILLIONARES!

    Comment by princess h — February 23, 2007 @ 6:54 pm

  339. I really don’t know what any of you people are talking about, I’ve been all over this country and no place compares to the wealth on LONG ISLAND in both counties. The north shore of long island is the richest part of this country per square mile and thats why it gets the name “the gold coast”. Then on the south eastern part of the island there is this place called the hamptons, you may have heard of it. Houses in these areas and in almost all the areas in between arent even called mansions, they are called estates. The island is filled with celeberties, politicians and CEO’s. I could list them all but I really don’t feel like it so take my word. Nassau and Suffolk counties are the richiest counties in this country along with manhatten(NY county), westchester, and a bunch of counties in north jersey. I don’t know why anyone would want to live in jersey, but it is very wealthy.

    Comment by anthony — February 26, 2007 @ 10:21 pm

  340. You people are so egotistically blind it’s funny. In no way would anyone with class be on this forum be bragging. It’s very sad. I’m sure most of you are teens with this delusional fanatasy that you live in a multi-million dollar neighborhood. OK. Keep dreaming, but just remember.. no one gets anywhere bragging. It takes hardwork to get to live in the places.

    Comment by Seriously — April 6, 2007 @ 3:45 pm

  341. New York, Ny is the richest county in the country. For everyone who does not know, New York county is Manhattan.People who are not form new york may be confused, they hear about all the poor areas of new york. Harlem, The Bronx, Parts of queens and Brooklyn. New York county is only Manhattan. However Harlem is included. It is such a small area it doesn’t make a dent in the average home price. Manhattan is the most desired county to live in. If you can afford to live in manhattan you only have a 10 minute commute to work. If you cannot live there than you have a very long train ride or you have to sit in massive traffic jams. This brings me to my point. Supply and demand. If a product is in demand the price for it will increase. People want to live in manhattan so the price to own property is high. Most of the cheaper homes in manhattan are 650-900 square feet. They sell for a million dollars. Yes one million dollars. For a home thats smaller than a two car garage. And don’t forget your in the middle of new york city. YOUR MILLION DOLLARS BOUGHT YOU NO PROPERTY. No 5 acre estate. No gardens, pools or waterfront property. You go to the upper east and west sides and thats where the big money is. Brownstone townhouses which sell for 40-90 million dollars. Again little if any backyard. You put a n 800 square foot home with no land around it in any other county or town mentioned in this blog and I promise you it will be valued a half what it would be in Manhattan.

    Comment by Chris — April 10, 2007 @ 1:36 am

  342. Hi…my name is kate..we have just moved to Englewood, New Jersey. Everyone tells me it is one of the richest cities in USA. Can someone enlighten me? we have moved to a very nice condo community called cross-creek pointe. thanks to anyone in advance who provides me info.
    kate, englewood, new jersey

    Comment by kate — May 7, 2007 @ 7:19 am

  343. i live in saddle river, yea it’s rich as hell it’s hard to believe bergen county’s average income would be less than $40,000. Like the towns here are crazy, it’s pretty impossible to find a house under 1.5 million in USR or saddle river, but you have to realize that counties around new york city like nassau or bergen county are metropolitan areas that are heavy populated and also have alot of apartments and city areas. Alot of these other counties are rural areas that have barely any people so it’s easy for them to have all suburban like towns without poor areas. Where as if you looked at the richest towns list New York and New Jersey would probably have more than 70% of the top spots.

    Comment by blaaa — May 8, 2007 @ 5:51 pm

  344. by the way I just read something saying the average income in new jersey is 65,000 a year. I’d like to know how not more counties in new jersey could be on these lists when the highest average county income is like 50,000 a year. that makes no sense. completely insane. But yes New Jersey is the richest state in the country. Though New York state is named the same most new york city suburbs are in new jersey, and we also have all the suburbs of Philly. It is the richest state in the country, though many people refer to it as the armpit of the U.S.

    Comment by blaa — May 8, 2007 @ 5:54 pm

  345. and NYC is far from the richest city in America. It isn’t even on the top 20 list. Like you have to remember though nyc has some of the richest areas and probably some of the highest incomes that it also has alot of the poorest areas that bring it down. Citys like San Jose have little poor areas and though there aren’t many insanely expensive apartments n such there aren’t the poor areas bringing down the average income.

    Comment by blaa — May 8, 2007 @ 5:57 pm

  346. Who really cares what the richest county is?? I mean is it ego? I personally find it sad that there are so many people in this country living below poverty and all these people who WASTE millions upon millions could care less! I know they earned it and all, but there is no need for greed and selfishness. NO, I am not a communist! I do find it sickening that there are people working their butts off who can’t afford groceries and medical care nor can they get food stamps or medicaid. Maybe you live in the richest county, maybe not. Who cares how expensive your house is, how many cars you drive, how many luxury vacations you take a year? If you are not giving to society in some way, or helping people you are nothing. PERIOD!

    Comment by Lauren — August 31, 2007 @ 11:53 am

  347. Hey guys,

    im from Fairfield County, and it should be #1. Everyone in this county is extremely wealthy. No exageration….EVERYONE

    Comment by Mike — November 2, 2007 @ 5:06 pm

  348. I live in Westchester County. And I must say, Westchester is very rich, especially in the the northern part with places such as Bedford, where I live. It has some bad parts in the south such as Mt. Vernon but still Westchester is Very rich. What’s even richer though, is Fairfield County, I agree with you Mike. Fairfield is right next to Westchester and I go to places such as Greenwich and New Canaan a lot, and they are no doubt the richest places I’ve ever seen. EVERY house there is extremely expensive, and the houses are all extremely big and nice. Fairfield should be number 1, IT IS SO FRICKEN RICH! Westchester should definately be on there too.

    Comment by Mark — December 23, 2007 @ 11:46 pm

  349. These areas where the wealthiest people reside are only that way, because that is what people are willing to pay. It will not last forever. Soon people are going to get tired of seeing a mere shack for sale in these areas for a million dollars and skip the area all together. Then if people really want or need to sell the prices will fall, especially now!

    Comment by Kerri — May 15, 2008 @ 8:31 pm

  350. I was reading a bunch of the comments on this page and I don’t think people realize what makes these counties the richest in America. They are done by Per Cappa income so it doesn’t matter how big the homes are in your specific county what matters is the total amount of income being brought into each residence. Someone from Bergen County got very upset because their county wasn’t on this list. I’ve been there and yes it does have some big homes but then again so does every other county. Bergen county can’t be considered one of the richest however, because it is more common for there to only be one person per house hold working so the per cappa income isn’t as big as in other counties where more than one person per household are bringing in the cash. There’s no reason to get mad about this it doesn’t make a person special because they live in a rich area.

    Comment by Chloe — July 2, 2008 @ 12:03 am

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