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Old 06-27-2012, 11:58 AM
 
Location: The City
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Or at least this is what Yahoo says

5 Hunterdon NJ
4 Fairfax VA
3 Loudon VA
2 Pitkin CO
1 Nantucket MA

America's 5 richest counties - Yahoo! Homes


Personally interesting, well maybe not to me but like what many say on the NJ grey space that is the connection fo NYC and Philly and not really either or in the Hunterdon NJ write up "In Hunterdon, commuters are split between New York City and Philadelphia."
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Old 06-27-2012, 08:53 PM
 
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I'm surprised Westchester co. didn't make the list.
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Old 06-27-2012, 09:50 PM
 
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Looks like Yahoo reported the info from CNBC. Here's 10-6 to complete the list.

10 Westchester NY
9 Morris NJ
8 Marin CA
7 Somerset NJ
6 Fairfield CT

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I can't say I'm surprised, except for the Colorado one. I'm not sure I've ever heard of that one.
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Old 06-27-2012, 10:37 PM
 
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Tons of wealthy Colorado counties! All the major ski resort cities! Aspen, Vail, Telluride, etc. Nothing but multi-million dollar homes!
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Old 06-27-2012, 11:01 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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Looks like Yahoo reported the info from CNBC. Here's 10-6 to complete the list.

10 Westchester NY
9 Morris NJ
8 Marin CA
7 Somerset NJ
6 Fairfield CT

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I can't say I'm surprised, except for the Colorado one. I'm not sure I've ever heard of that one.
Pitkin is the fourth highest per capita income county in the country. It's where Aspen is.
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Old 06-28-2012, 02:12 AM
 
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Tons of wealthy Colorado counties! All the major ski resort cities! Aspen, Vail, Telluride, etc. Nothing but multi-million dollar homes!
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Pitkin is the fourth highest per capita income county in the country. It's where Aspen is.
Oh alright, I didn't think of that. Well I knew Aspen at least.
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Old 06-28-2012, 08:14 AM
 
Location: So California
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All of these counties will be small affluent suburban
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Old 06-28-2012, 12:00 PM
 
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All of these counties will be small affluent suburban

small?

Fairfax is over a million residents I believe

West Chester and Somerset and Morris are decently sized probably 500K-1 Million

Loudon is probably also in the 500-1,000K group

though agree they are basically mostly suburban. Fairfax is pretty developed though. much would be similar density to the west bay (developed portion)

So at least half of these i would hardly call small


Also somewhat interesting to me is that Somerset, Morris, and Hunterdon NJ (all in the top ten) basically make up a lot of the 287 Pharma corrider in NJ
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Old 06-29-2012, 09:08 AM
 
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small?

Fairfax is over a million residents I believe

West Chester and Somerset and Morris are decently sized probably 500K-1 Million

Loudon is probably also in the 500-1,000K group

though agree they are basically mostly suburban. Fairfax is pretty developed though. much would be similar density to the west bay (developed portion)

So at least half of these i would hardly call small


Also somewhat interesting to me is that Somerset, Morris, and Hunterdon NJ (all in the top ten) basically make up a lot of the 287 Pharma corrider in NJ
Loudon went from 169,000 to 312,000 in the last census, all upper middle class suburban
Fairfax is the same but bigger 2782/sq mi
(not the same as west bay, the peninsula cities range from 2500 to 13000 (DalyCity), most are in the 4600-6000 range, of course theres designated open space on the hills)
Nantucket....we know what that is
Somerset is sprawling 300,000
Morris 490k
Pitkin 17k
Marin 252,000

Yes they are all suburban upper middle to high income or resort area. Smaller also meaning size which means they have not as much diversity of income range. Its part of the old arguments about how the big cities of the east are very dense and then very low density development outside the main urban areas. Those areas are pretty wealthy. If you take a county like Orange County California which is considered generally affluent, it is much larger and has large moderate income areas that would take the average income down
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Old 06-29-2012, 09:19 AM
 
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And what do most of those counties have in common?

They either heavily depend on government spending or they're in blue states.
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