# Wealthy Sections Of Cities **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021 "2011-06-10T19:56:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/21 "2011-06-11T01:25:04Z")
> [@SanibelMan](#): > > In St. Louis, the suburbs of Frontenac, Ladue and Town and Country are probably the wealthiest and most “old money.” In the city itself, the Central West End has some stately manors. In St. Louis, the real mark of hoity-toitydness is knowing the ritzy subdivisions, not just the neighborhoods, i.e., not the Central West End, but Portland Place; not just Huntleigh, but Squires Lane. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/22 "2011-06-11T03:46:00Z")
Nashville’s is Belle Meade. Brentwood in the next county to the south is a rival and Hendersonville in the northeast county would rank third. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/23 "2011-06-11T12:50:29Z")
> [@Caffeine.addict](#): > > I was going to say Ward 3. Pretty much. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/24 "2011-06-11T13:49:53Z")
> [@kevja](#): > > And Seacliff, Pacific Heights, St. Francis Wood, Diamond Heights, parts of Twin Peaks, Russian Hill and the Sky Boxes downtown. And Presidio Heights. However, there are lots of middle class residences in Diamond Heights and Russian Hill, they’re not as exclusive as some of the other areas mentioned. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/25 "2011-06-11T16:21:46Z")
This is probably surprising to folks who have never been here, but there’s a \*lot \*of wealth floating around the greater Dayton area ( **Dayton, Ohio** ). Oakwood is home to the “old money” crowd. Located just south of downtown, it is comprised of huge, beautiful homes nestled within old-growth trees. Places like Centerville, West Kettering, and Englewood are for the “new money” crowd. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/26 "2011-06-11T17:12:50Z")
Detroit has Grosse Pointe, Boston Blvd, and Rosedale Park. Grosse Pointe is where the Ford families lived. ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/27 "2011-06-11T17:26:12Z")
Fort Worth, TX: Westover Hills, Overton Park, Tanglewood, Mira Vista ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/28 "2011-06-11T18:42:05Z")
Seattle: we’re house hunting right now, so it seems like all of it. :mad: Really, Medina (Bill Gates) and Mercer Island. ---
**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/29 "2011-06-12T17:56:28Z")
deleted…accidentally double posted. ---
**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/30 "2011-06-12T17:57:33Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > Metrorail infamously does not have any stations there - you have to take the train and transfer to a bus, or walk there (e.g. get off at Rosslyn and walk across the Key Bridge over the Potomac River) Minor nitpick but you can get off at Foggy Bottom and it’s like a 5 minute walk. In NYC the Upper East Side is for those who were born into money, the Upper West Side is for those who earned a bunch of money…at this point the affluence in NYC is to the point where even the outer boroughs are getting expensive (i.e. Williamsburg or DUMBO…hipsters with money). ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/31 "2011-06-14T03:10:12Z")
> [@CatherineZeta](#): > > In NYC the Upper East Side is for those who were born into money, the Upper West Side is for those who earned a bunch of money…at this point the affluence in NYC is to the point where even the outer boroughs are getting expensive (i.e. Williamsburg or DUMBO…hipsters with money). Probably because the Upper East Side is better suited to people who don’t actually have to take a subway to work in the morning. There are parts of Brooklyn like Bay Ridge where homes are like $1-2 million or more. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/32 "2011-06-14T05:05:45Z")
Montreal: Westmount ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/33 "2011-06-14T11:58:21Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > Montreal: Westmount and Outremont, and to a lesser extent TMR (Town of Mount Royal). ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/34 "2011-06-14T15:42:20Z")
> [@WreckingCrew](#): > > Beacon Hill and Back Bay in Boston. For Boston the wealthy section within the wealthy section is Louisburg Square. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/35 "2011-06-14T15:53:41Z")
Calgary: Mount Royal or Elbow Park, but the people with real money around these parts life in Bears Paw. There’s where the multi million dollar estates are. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/36 "2011-06-14T17:52:01Z")
> [@CatherineZeta](#): > > at this point the affluence in NYC is to the point where even the outer boroughs are getting expensive (i.e. Williamsburg or DUMBO…hipsters with money). There have always been areas of the outer boroughs that have been pricy, even before Manhattan took of as a whole. Back in the 1980s and early 1990s, Hell’s Kitchen, Tribeca, the Garment District and the Lower East Side were all “don’t walk alone past nightfall” neighborhoods, now they’re the land of multi-million dollar lofts and 1BR apartments… Yet even then, Brooklyn Heights was considered ritzy, Riverdale in the Bronx, Forest Hills Gardens in Queens. (Staten Island I know very little about.) Nowawdays those enclaves are still the cachet neighborhoods of their respective boroughs but others have since caught on. In Brooklyn, Park Slope has been very popular (and pricy) for 10-15 years, with the demand spilling over into all the adjacent neighborhoods as well. Williamsburg and “DUMBO” (good Lord I hate that designation) caught on about 10 years ago with the “hipsters with money”, at least those who wanted to be so hip as to cross the WB and Manhattan bridges from the Lower East Side that they had colonized. Locals call them “Trustifarians”. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/37 "2011-06-14T18:02:08Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Baltimore: Baltimore County. 😛 OK, mostly true, but AFAIR from living in Baltimore 12 years ago, Roland Park on the far north of the city (near Johns Hopkins) was pretty nice, as were Mount Vernon, Guilford and Charles Village. We lived in an apartment in Mount Vernon and the architecture was great, it really reminded me of the part of Brooklyn I’d moved out of to go to Baltimore for 2-3 years (my wife had a post-doc position at JHU). The area was kind of run down but seemed on the upswing, which based on subsequent visits throughout the 2000s seemed to play out. She had a quick trip to the main JHU campus by shuttle bus from the Peabody and I could walk downtown to where I worked. We still have friends who have a really stunning house in Guilford just north of JHU. ---
**Author:** ![With\_Rye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@With\_Rye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/With_Rye)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/38 "2011-06-14T22:32:39Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > And Presidio Heights. However, there are lots of middle class residences in Diamond Heights and Russian Hill, they’re not as exclusive as some of the other areas mentioned. > Roddy Also, [Presidio Terrace](http://sfist.com/2007/06/06/sfist_photo_presdio_terrace_sfs_gated_community.php). ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/39 "2011-06-14T22:39:56Z")
London’s pretty varied and all the rich parts have council estates and other poorer areas within them, but Kensington & Chelsea is pretty wealthy. So is Richmond, though some parts of it are very new London. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021/40 "2011-06-14T23:06:43Z")
> [@Dpimi](#): > > Brentwood - Los Angeles There are quite a few rich areas of L.A. county. Of course, there’s the “Platinum Triangle” which is Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and Holmby Hills (HH has already been mentioned - it’s where [Aaron Spelling’s former $150 million mansion](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/27/150-million-aaron-spellin_n_179904.html) is located. There’s also a lot of wealth in Santa Monica, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, and Calabasas, among others. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wealthy-sections-of-cities/585021.md?page=3)