Cities with the richest people
 

https://nypost.com/2021/02/20/new-yo...on-the-planet/

"....A new study titled, “Spotlight on the World’s Leading Markets for the Wealthy: Residential Real Estate 2021,” found that 24,660 members of the $30 million and higher net worth group had either a primary or secondary residence in New York as of December 2020.

Coming in second, according to the report, was Los Angeles, which is home to 16,295 such people. LA was followed by London ( with 14,485 ultra-high-net-worth residents), Hong Kong (14,235) and Paris (7,035.)."

LA having more mega wealthy than London surprises me. I would have imagined NY and London to be head and shoulders above the rest, due to being the financial capitals of the world.

I'm not surprised. LA has a ton of wealth and is a bigger, richer metro than London.

I’m not surprised either. Also, London’s status as a financial capital has plunged and with its decline, foreign money is fleeing.

Maybe we'll see an influx of wealthy Brits in our cities?

From the study in the article :

Second-home destinations are dominated by cities in the ‘West’ – London has one of the highest shares of UHNW secondary homes, but away from the global cities, Miami leads the rest of real estate markets.

https://www.wealthx.com/report/resid...l-estate-2021/

No problem. Here, take this.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...March_2015.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II

I bet even the regular English citizens would gladly leave it to you, after all.

We will take your sexy poor girls instead. ;)

LA has celebrities, influencers and a lot of new money. Plus it is a magnet for entrepreneurs.

South Florida is BOOMING right now! :cheers:

No thanks, you queen loving degenerates can keep her.

However, we will gladly take fashionable princess-dominatrix Meghan and His Royal Simpness Harry off your hands. :cheers:

Some of the homes in Aspen, insane the costs. That's not just rich, that's using money as toilet paper rich. A different class of rich when they can buy homes 20-40 million and its nothing to them.

Just answered my own query: https://www.aspensojo.com/news-and-p...7/the-aspen-50



https://www.aspensojo.com/news-and-p...7/the-aspen-50


"Aspen’s 50 Wealthiest Residents"

Dude, you're speaking to a Frenchman, huh.
Do you know what France is? We've been fighting for over 200 years against that kind of bullshit.
That is our fight for the Republic.

And we are not the ones to have weird establishment dynasties in top politics, like the Bushes or the Clintons.
Our current prez is 43, way younger than yours, and came out of nowhere.
He is a product of genuine meritocracy, right? I'm not claiming he would be perfect. He is sometimes awkward and inexperienced, but at least, he is someone new.

Bwa ha ha ! Well, I'll leave those to you too. I don't care, Idk who they are.

lol I agree with you. I fear that American political leadership is ossifying into a permanent ruling class. It's certainly looking that way. I never want to see another Bush or Clinton or Trump running for office ever again.

For the Republic!
:cheers:

New York is simply amazing!!

Do you mean the city in the Southern portion of New York state?

Recently, we've lost Olivier Dassault who died in a stupid helicopter crash.
It's a bit of an ironical and sorry way to die for the billionaire grandson of a brilliant engineer, Marcel Dassault, born Marcel Bloch, a French Jew who had to convert to Roman Catholicism and change his Jewish name into Dassault, so he would get more appreciation by the French establishment of his time.
Marcel started a famous company exclusively specialized in aeronautics.
I'm not much in billionaire dynasties, but I'll admit I'm a bit sorry about the loss, because Olivier was the last significant member of the Dassault family that's highly respected here in France, by anybody, no matter what political opinion.

You know, Dassault Aviation is the corporation that builds those beautiful business birds.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._AN1577995.jpg
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Falcon_8X

Their software branch Dassault Systèmes specialized in aerospace engineering is also renowned internationally.

The Dassaults are not your typical billionaire family acting as "exclusive" jerks, to show off their yachts or wealth.
They're known as simple guys close to the people, involved in French Conservative politics because they think the French left-wing is too anti-business, but always faithful to our country anyway.
They're not the kind of guys to scorn you. That's also why people have respect for them here.

I mean, Marcel and his son Serge were not just billionaires. They were true passionate engineers and gentle guys.
That makes a whole difference from your random sectarian billionaire.

What about Jacksonville? I would have thought it would be second, or at least third on the list, given its peerless skyline.

Have you looked at where the Kennedys have gone lately--they've become anti-vaxxers.

But we are developing a class of behind the scenes political string-pullers with names like Bezos, Koch, Adelson, Soros, Gates, Bloomberg and so on. These people (Bloomberg excepted) aren't running for office themselves but they may have more political power than those who do. Maybe they are the true "ruling class".

Life's gotten complicated for Dassault and its companions:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/busines...4982514?page=1