In Sydney, Point Piper is for the super rich. Also Double Bay, Rose Bay, all the surrounding suburbs.
For generally wealthy, Mosman, Neutral Bay, North Sydney.
Buckhead in Atlanta
Milwaukee–Whitefish Bay.
San Antonio (old money): Olmos Park, Alamo Heights, Terrell Hills. Olmos Park is actually mentioned/mocked in a James McMurtry song.
I don’t even know where that is! Maybe the rich people pay a service to keep me from knowing.
Brookline has some pretty pricey areas. And Jamaica Plain, not known for being a rich area, has some mighty impressive houses.
In Ottawa, Rockcliffe Park is the major wealthy neighbourhood. The adjacent New Edinburgh area is more mixed but the official residences of the Prime Minister and the Governor General lend significant prestige to the neighbourhood.
Albuquerque has Rio Rancho.
Cherry Hills Village in Denver. It made a top list or something recently.
edit: Sorry, Cherry Hills VILLAGE is outside of Denver proper. But there’s the adjacent neighborhood. Also: Park Hill, parts of Cherry Creek, parts of LoHi.
All of Denver’s neighborhoods have been affected by some slummier portion or the other.
Don’t forget Specific Whites.
And doesn’t Santa Fe have Canyon Road?
Can’t recall Santa Fe that well. There is one stretch of road just outside the city where there are some nice houses far apart. When I was going door to door for New Mexico PIRG one summer, I did that stretch, and it was quite a hike. I remember one home I walked up to, no one answered the door, but clearly visible through the glass by the door were all these government commendations and photos with “important people.” Was that Canyon Road?
louisburg square is mentioned in the “make way for ducklings” book. it is a handfull of houses around a garden/square. those handfull of houses… they have their own zip code! just for them alone, that is how rich they are.
philly also has society hill.
San Antonio (new money): Stone Oak, The Dominion (where a lot of Spurs live)
Originally posted by **Twickster: **
I’d also add Society Hill and Mount Airy (that’s where former Sen. Arlen Specter and former Gov. Ed Rendell live).
Nope, actually Specter and Rendell both live in East Falls, which is my neighborhood. It’s not all that ritzy east of Midvale Avenue – lots and lots of working class row homes.
In the metro Indianapolis area:
Carmel/Fishers/Geist. A contiguous line of suburbs to the north of Indianapolis proper.
Carmel (CAR-mull, not car-MELL) is large enough that it has its own rich and poor sections, but the assumption is that someone living in Carmel is well off unless stated otherwise.
Fishers and Geist are directly to the east of Carmel. Geist Reservoir allows the well-to-do to pretend they have a lake-front estate.
North Meridian Street. Insanely gorgeous and expensive homes; Fishers/Geist and to a lesser extent Carmel tend to be for the nouveau riche of the area, though Carmel has some old money. North Meridian is for Indy’s old old money.