Battle of the Wealthy Neighborhoods: Where You'd Live (building, beautiful, better)

[415_s2k]

I'm content with where I am right now but get a bit misty-eyed over Pacific Heights/The Presidio/etc often enough. That's where I'd choose.

Were I to move back to Boston, I'd be looking at Beacon Hill or a brownstone in Back Bay.

[Slevin Kelevra]

Replace Bethesda for Georgetown. Georgetown is nice, but its not Bethesda or even Mclean.

[DC's Finest]

Originally Posted by Slevin Kelevra

Replace Bethesda for Georgetown. Georgetown is nice, but its not Bethesda or even Mclean.

Home/Condo prices in Georgetown are higher on average than Bethesda.

[r small]

The problem with Georgetown is that it lies within the city limits of DC which has the most corrupt and incompetent city government on the planet. Other than that I like G-town. Ditto with Dupont Circle, Cleveland Park, Adams Morgan, Mount Pleasant, Friendship Heights, Woodley Park, Capitol Hill, Glover Park, Tenleytown, Foggy Bottom, Palisades, Columbia Heights, Logan Circle, etc., etc.

[ATUMRE75]

Upper East Side, Manhattan. I could never pass up the chance of being the king of New York lol...

[BVitamin]

Originally Posted by Duderino

Just to clarify, as of 2009, the median household income in Society Hill was $89,124.

As an example, that's very comparable to Boston's Beacon Hill MHI in 2009 in Boston ($90,200), a neighborhood definitely noted for its wealth.

Both are definitely affluent compared to the national median household income of $49,777 for the same year.

//www.city-data.com/neighborhoo...elphia-PA.html

Daily Kos: Median U.S. household income fell 5% between 1999 and 2009. Globalization remains the core problem

//www.city-data.com/neighborhoo...Boston-MA.html

Alright, I concede.

[A&M_Indie_08]

Pacific Heights from the list, but I would prefer Sausalito across the bay

[john_starks]

this is tough, every idiot i knew in high school moved to the UES

and i live next door to society hill now - which is meh with more idiiots


both suck in their own way, but the UES may be worse...no subway or cab
will help you escape the 4 family overachievers

[T. Damon]

Definitely Pacific Heights.

My buddy used to rent the middle floor of a 100 y.o. mansion right on Broadway and Steiner in Pacific Heights. What an amazing little slice of urban heaven! Views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Bay, Alcatraz, Palace of Fine Arts and the classic neighborhood architecture spilling down the hill in the foreground with Sausalito and the hills of Marin County in the background. Great urban neighborhoods down in the Marina district or up the hill on Broadway, and some of the finest examples of urban mansion architecture anywhere in the world, especially just to the West with places owned by the likes of the Gettys and other financial power families, the Presidio just down the street, Alta Plaza and other parks nearby.

UES is, well, in NYC so it has all its amazing attributes good and bad, but is removed from the rest of the city by the wealthy living in mostly amazing apartments that no one can ever experience with a few fine townhouses scattered about. I love the historic architecture of Beacon Hill and its proximity to Back Bay and downtown but it's a very compact few blocks and all the townhouses are pretty much the same though; and, Boston ain't San Francisco. I'm not as familiar with Society Hill but looks pretty similar but neither of those places have the architectural, geographic and urban diversity of Pacific Heights. Georgetown is a great neighborhood, beautiful historic architecture but D.C. is a little too uptight for my tastes.

I'll take this one please.
San Francisco, CA - Google Maps

[kidphilly]

Some on Society Hill. To me I like Rittenhouse better in Philly even

Pac Heights is very cool based on my experience. All these are very nice nabes on the whole


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