Forsyth County ranked "richest" in Georgia by "24/7 Wall Street" website

[earthlyfather]

What you are missing - bad me - is the sarcasm. Much woke and generational meme around the advantages of caucasians and the "unreservedness" of accomplishment.

Needless to say, I disagree.

Originally Posted by arjay57

I may be missing the context of your comment, but why are white folks any less deserving of being loaded than anybody else?

[AtlJan]

Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

That's a stretch. You ought to go visit the area and take a gander.

Obviously Forsyth Co is very affluent. I think our point is that to describe Forsyth Co as the most affluent county in Georgia to an outsider might be a tad misleading. I can name three billionaires off the top of my head who live in Buckhead. The area is not as insularly upper middle class as Forsyth, but the concentration of wealth in the area is staggering.

[earthlyfather]

Both can be true without negatively characterizing one. Buckhead can have its very, very wealthy, dare we say 1% and Forsyth can have an overall high wealth, 5%.

Insularly? Really?

Originally Posted by AtlJan

Obviously Forsyth Co is very affluent. I think our point is that to describe Forsyth Co as the most affluent county in Georgia to an outsider might be a tad misleading. I can name three billionaires off the top of my head who live in Buckhead. The area is not as insularly upper middle class as Forsyth, but the concentration of wealth in the area is staggering.

[AtlJan]

Originally Posted by earthlyfather

Both can be true without negatively characterizing one. Buckhead can have its very, very wealthy, dare we say 1% and Forsyth can have an overall high wealth, 5%.

Insularly? Really?

I didn't mean to denigrate Forsyth at all. I do think it is farther from the madding crowd, so to speak, than counties closer to the city of Atlanta. The homes are on larger lots, many are on the water. And in terms of wealth, the counties on three sides (Fulton, Hall, Dawson, and Cherokee to a lesser extent) have a median household income that is significantly lower, thus setting Forsyth apart as an island of sorts.

Fulton County's neighboring counties, on the other hand, are all similar in median household income, save for Clayton's which is a bit lower, and Forsyth's, which, as already mentioned, is a bit higher.

[PTC Dad]

Originally Posted by AtlJan

This is a measure of the most homogeneously middle class county. Obviously there is a great deal of wealth in Fulton, Cobb and Dekalb, as well. However these counties in addition have impoverished areas, and young working people and students attending major universities (GSU and Tech, KSU and Emory).

Fayette was the wealthiest county in Georgia for most of the 80's, 90's and early 2000's for this reason. It was a poor rural county that transformed into a homogenous middle/upper middle class suburb. During that period, new construction was primarily large single family homes on estate size lots with little to no multi-family housing. It became a magnet for upper middle class families on the southside due to the growth of Hartsfield and buildout of Peachtree City.

Since about 2006, Forsyth has taken the mantle as Fayette's older neighborhoods decline and strict zoning limits growth. There is also lower growth of higher paying jobs south of I-20. Forsyth also benefits from being adjacent to North Fulton.

You see these homogenous middle class counties throughout the state:

Columbus (Harris County)
Augusta (Columbia)
Athens (Oconee)
Macon (Houston)
Savannah (Effingham)
Albany (Lee)

"Wealthiest" is misleading. It should be titled the county with the lowest number of low income families.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._capita_income