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.
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.
Pretty much.
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.
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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.
Detroit has Grosse Pointe, Boston Blvd, and Rosedale Park. Grosse Pointe is where the Ford families lived.
Fort Worth, TX: Westover Hills, Overton Park, Tanglewood, Mira Vista
Seattle: we’re house hunting right now, so it seems like all of it. :mad:
Really, Medina (Bill Gates) and Mercer Island.
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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).
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.
Montreal: Westmount
and Outremont, and to a lesser extent TMR (Town of Mount Royal).
For Boston the wealthy section within the wealthy section is Louisburg Square.
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.
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”.
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.
Also, Presidio Terrace.
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.
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 is located. There’s also a lot of wealth in Santa Monica, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, and Calabasas, among others.