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NYC by sheer numbers.
SF by sheer percentages.
Lets call these two tier 1.
LA, Chicago, Boston, San Diego, and DC also have either fairly high numbers or percentages. Lets call these tier 2.
Houston, Dallas, and Phoenix don't make the cut because thier numbers are below a certain threshold based on these figures. Tier 3?
California and New York seem to attract the majority of yuppies in the US, and by a wide margin.
San Francisco/San Jose, yes. Los Angeles and San Diego? No. The "yuppie" figures for Los Angeles seem numbers seem very low (in sheer numbers and percentages) for such a large population. I've never seen LA as a "yuppie" city.
The only yuppie cities are New York/Greenwich, San Francisco/San Jose, Washington DC and Boston.
NYC, San Fran, DC, etc do not have as many upper middle class yuppies neighborhoods as Atlanta.
Most of the people in those cities are still living in apartments while the yuppies here are living in a brand new 5 bedroom house alone
Were you serious or is this sarcasm? Atlanta is no where close to DC, NYC or SF in population or number of neighborhoods - on the 5 bedroom house you may be right - 200K a year doesn afford one on that salary in the other cities for prime locations. And to me that also demonstrates a differance in perspective - In Atlanta (and many other cities) people strive for the burbs; in the other areas like DC, NYC, and SF many are striving for urban and more vibrant lifestyle/habitat where 5 bedroom houses do not exist
Also on the burbs - the DC Burbs have many more affluent areas when compared to the Atlanta - not anything against Atlanta because it more than it's fair share of very nice areas, including more urban ones - but with a post like that I question whether you have actually been to the other places or have spent enough time to understand.
And honestly saying that Atlanta is exceeded by these places by no means Atlanta is not doing well - but the cities you named are unique with high concentrated upper-mid and wealthy enclaves and also just about the three most expensive areas in the country
Were you serious or is this sarcasm? Atlanta is no where close to DC, NYC or SF in population or number of neighborhoods - on the 5 bedroom house you may be right - 200K a year doesn afford one on that salary in the other cities for prime locations. And to me that also demonstrates a differance in perspective - In Atlanta (and many other cities) people strive for the burbs; in the other areas like DC, NYC, and SF many are striving for urban and more vibrant lifestyle/habitat where 5 bedroom houses do not exist
Also on the burbs - the DC Burbs have many more affluent areas when compared to the Atlanta - not anything against Atlanta because it more than it's fair share of very nice areas, including more urban ones - but with a post like that I question whether you have actually been to the other places or have spent enough time to understand.
And honestly saying that Atlanta is exceeded by these places by no means Atlanta is not doing well - but the cities you named are unique with high concentrated upper-mid and wealthy enclaves and also just about the three most expensive areas in the country
LOL...you are funny
Cascade/Camp Creek area alone has more affluent AA area's than all of DC, NYC, San Fran suburbs combined, not even including Lithonia, South Fulton Parkway, etc. Atlanta has homes from 200k+ over a million dollars and the neighborhoods are all black. No other city has this many neighborhoods. Most of the suburbs in DC are in PG County, The Woodmore and about 10+ other neighborhoods but Atlanta has more affluent neighborhoods on the Southwest side of town and Im not even including the eastside suburbs. NO CITY IN AMERICA IS EVEN CLOSE TO HAVING AS MANY UPSCALE AA NEIGHBORHOODS AS ATLANTA.
Another thing, you can make 80k- 120k in DC or NYC and you will only be able to afford an apartment or a house in the hood. You can make 50k in Atlanta and you can purchase a house.
We have tons of AA neighborhoods EVERYWHERE across town, I mean everywhere. 23 year olds with no kids with their own home, brand new NICE homes at that. Check out the links
156k home
http://www.newhomes.com/houses/homedetail.jsp?regionid=1408&homeid=43154&luxury_h omes=false&siteid=1 (broken link)
160k home
http://www.newhomes.com/houses/homedetail.jsp?regionid=1408&homeid=55849&luxury_h omes=false&siteid=1 (broken link)
Come on, these neighborhoods are all over the city. All professional AA. Young professionals over play $800- $1000 per month for the homes above. Come on now
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