America's 5 Wealthiest Counties.. - Democratic Underground

HipChick

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Tue May-03-11 09:24 PM
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America's 5 Wealthiest Counties..

Northern Virginia has top 3...

http://www.forbes.com/2011/04/11/americas-richest-counties-business-washington.html

1.Falls Church,VA
2.Loudoun County, VA
3.Fairfax,VA
4. Hunterdon County,NJ
5. Howard County,MD

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northoftheborder

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Tue May-03-11 09:34 PM
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1. VA and MD full of lobbyists and defense contractors

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GSLevel9

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Tue May-03-11 09:52 PM
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5. As a resident and fed employee...

I can ASSURE you that NVA is FULL of overpaid folks including lobbyists, former politicians and fed contracted attornies, etc...

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Lucky Luciano

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Tue May-03-11 09:40 PM
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2. Surprised Manhattan is not there, though we do have the areas above 96th st.

I also thought Fairfield in CT and Westchester in NY were up there.

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Tue May-03-11 10:02 PM
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6. lotsa poor people in those areas, too. brings the averages down.

Edited on Tue May-03-11 10:03 PM by unblock

sure, fairfield ct has greenwich and westport, but it also has stamford, norwalk, and so on.

and manhattan of course has plenty of poor people.

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Lucky Luciano

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Tue May-03-11 10:18 PM
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7. Stamford is pretty well off actually, but got your point.

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Wed May-04-11 07:10 PM
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22. parts of it -- and it's gotten better than it was, say 10 years ago.

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Wed May-04-11 04:35 PM
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supernova

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Tue May-03-11 09:41 PM
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3. Howard Cty, MD?

Really?

It's near Ball'mer, not exactly rolling in dough. But I did live there 20 years ago, so... :shrug:

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JPZenger

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Tue May-03-11 09:44 PM
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4. Clarifications

Howard County has seen large numbers of mcmansions constructed. It also includes Columbia.

Falls Church is not a county, but is a city that is independent of the surrounding county.

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Stinky The Clown

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Tue May-03-11 10:59 PM
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10. Yup. Really.

Very high per caps and very high household incomes. Median household well north of $100k.

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Leopolds Ghost

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Wed May-04-11 03:11 AM
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11. When did this happen? Who the f$ck lives in Howard County?

It has no attractive neighborhoods that I'm aware of... no employment centers period... certainly no one in the DC area ever talks about moving there and there are hugely wealthy people in the DC area.

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supernova

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Wed May-04-11 08:03 AM
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14. Columbia

Poster above me reminded me that Columbia MD (US first planned city! Yay!) is in Howard.

But you're right. It's as nondiscript a place as I've ever seen. If I were wealthy in DC I'd much rather live in Great Falls or NW DC near American University.

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Stinky The Clown

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Wed May-04-11 04:21 PM
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18. There are few, if any, superwealthy.

There are plenty of well paid upper middle class people and very little poverty.

Actually, it is pretty homogeneous.

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Aviation Pro

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Tue May-03-11 10:37 PM
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8. Surprised that Montgomery County, MD didn't make the list...

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Leopolds Ghost

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Wed May-04-11 03:12 AM
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12. Montgomery County is divided between hugely wealthy areas which fund it and poorer immigrant areas

Segregated, really. In some cases along the RR tracks...

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LiberalEsto

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Wed May-04-11 04:12 PM
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15. It used to be on the list

and so did Somerset County NJ, where I lived before moving to Montgomery County.

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Tommy_Carcetti

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Wed May-04-11 04:24 PM
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19. Calvert County, MD is in the top 20, I believe.

It's grown as a rich bedroom community to the Baltimore-Washington Metro area. Used to be quite rural, but now is as suburban as they come.

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Honeycombe8

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Tue May-03-11 10:51 PM
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9. I think that's probably only because OUR wealthiest "country" incorporated itself....

so it became a town. Highland Park, Texas. A suburb, so to speak, of Dallas, TX. The one place in the country to have contributed the most to the Bush campaign for President.

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Art_from_Ark

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Wed May-04-11 04:47 AM
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13. Why is Falls Church on this list

given that it's a city and not a county? :shrug:

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gkhouston

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Wed May-04-11 04:30 PM
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20. And given that it's in Fairfax county? n/t

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11 Bravo

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Wed May-04-11 04:18 PM
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16. I live in #3 (and Falls Church is a city, not a county).

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tabbycat31

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Wed May-04-11 04:20 PM
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17. Very surprised my home county (Westchester, NY) is not on there

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tabasco

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Wed May-04-11 07:21 PM
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23. My guess : bloodsucking parasites of government welfare. n/t

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socialist_n_TN

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Wed May-04-11 07:38 PM
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24. It looks like a boatload of those are pretty close to DC

Coincidence? I think not. Oh well, at least we have an idea of where to go to get some of our wealth back comes the revolution. :)

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