We ’re gon na take a guess : if you ’re discipline to see if your town is on this listing , you probably live in the sorting of shoes that would take the " Obnoxiously Rich " distinction as a secret point of pride . And why not ? It proves what you ’ve known – this situation is great , and the only reason more people do n’t say so is because they ca n’t admit the facts . Grand houses . Great schools . Excellent tennis instructors . The very best groundskeeper and gate - subdivision on - call security sentry go in the metropolis .
But you know what really makes your town particular ? The people . And it ’s the the great unwashed – your hoi polloi – we need to lionize in this here list . Our method are partly data - tug , mostly subjective . We canvass expert on all of these cities , many of them natives of your townsfolk either years ago or presently . A lot of these selection did come down to silly little quantifier like money – but what does n’t , though , are we good ? – while other factors , we navigated by feel . Put it this way : if you ’re here , it ’s not just for being flush or pompous or aloof or debauched , although you may be all of the above . No , mostly you ’re here because you bring that certain additional something . You ’re unmistakably , unabashedly yourself . You may not be the cool –these are thecoolestsuburbs in America– but who want to be cool when you’re able to be rich ?
Atlanta: Brookhaven, Georgia
Population:51,029Exciting and pompous fact : Decades ago , long before incorporate as Brookhaven , this new North Atlanta metropolis was in reality a city named North Atlanta ( because ewww , " Atlanta " ) .
Today , the city of Brookhaven is exactly what it sounds like : a haven for mass advert Brook . There ’s Town Brookhaven , which is one of those weird villages that has nice - at - best solid food , a theater with couches and alcohol , and a Costco . There ’s Peachtree Golf Club , which was design in part by Bobby Jones in the late 1940s , and therefore gives occupant the feeling that they go to something but in reality makes them a diminutive edition of Augusta , and LMAO at that being a thing . They even tried to have their own version of Atlanta ’s beloved Dogwood Festival – the Cherry Blossom Festival – which recouped only one-half of the $ 300k+ budget it blew ask people to make out by and spend their money on some shit you ’re apparently supposed to buy while looking at some damn prime . –Mike Jordan , Thrillist Atlanta editor program emeritus
Austin: West Lake Hills, Texas
Population:3,063Exciting and ceremonious fact : A 2005Texas Monthlyessay on growing up in West Lake Hills enounce : " Attending Westlake High entail never having to justify for being moneyed or successful . And if other towns hated us , it certainly was n’t our fault . "
Secluded from the residual of Austin by mode of the Colorado River , Westlake sit high atop the enviably scenic hill of West Austin , and residents clearly relish their geographical advantage pointedness as they literally await down upon all those lesser neighborhoods from their frightfully steep driveways . Even worse than these silver - spooners ( who still consider themselves " hip " and " alternative " because they ’re " from Austin " ) are their insanely privileged spawn who terrorize the domain around Westlake High School in their Range Rovers but , lucky for the rest of the city , do n’t deign to venture down from their rod in the hill too often . –Ciera Velarde , editorial yield assistant
Baltimore: Clarksville, Maryland
Population:11,236Exciting and pompous fact : Even the Wikipedia Sir Frederick Handley Page swash about how its public schooling are well fund than compete secret and charter schools in the area .
I ca n’t really speak to this expanse , so I ’ll let my friend who grew up in Howard County do the pureness : " A town of boastful , historically sorcerous homes owned by multitude who made their money doing incredibly boring things , so they compensate by essay to ramp their snobbiness up , quite perhaps out of boredom . Also , somewhat bewilderingly , they have a Ruby Tuesday . " Maryland confounds me . –Kevin Alexander , national writer - at - large
Boston: Wellesley, Massachusetts
Population:27,982Exciting and pompous fact : It has America ’s high pct of adults who hold at least one college degree .
As someone who actually develop up in this townspeople , I can tell you I did n’t really need to pick out Wellesley . I wanted to choose Manchester - by - the - Sea because , I mean , who really does that to the name of their town ? Or Dover because of buck stables and operating surgeon . Or Weston because of mansions that you ca n’t even see from the street . But this is about obnoxious suburbs rather than the wealthiest , and mankind , current Wellesley really came to play in that family .
The newly revitalize Downtown now has some very solid restaurant choices and even places to wassail non - arctic sodas , and that has made it a suburban hotspot of variety , and drive home price dramatically higher . And with this influx of wealthiness has come a new , peculiarly over - the - top Wellesley attitude , along with house now build almost to their lot terminus ad quem , and Range Rovers and those expensive fur vest pop in ski townsfolk . " It ’s a scene now , " one of my friend who still hold up there say . " Like a lawful snobby view . "
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Sigh . If you need me , I ’ll be in the Linden Store , eat two BBQ knock bitch hero to mask my emotions . –K.A.
Charlotte: Ballantyne, North Carolina
Population:20,936Exciting and pompous fact : It has its own damn magazine .
Chicago: Kenilworth, Illinois
Population:2,513Exciting and pompous fact : The public construction in the middle of town is known as the Kenilworth Club . So basically , even its public buildings fathom individual .
Have you ever walk around Winnetka and thought , " Ugh , these houses are tiny and I palpate like not a lot of them have helipads ? " Well then , Kenilworth is for you ! Basically a wealthy enclave pucker inside a wealthy enclave wrapped up in Chicago ’s premier North Shore enclave , it was in the beginning purchased by Joseph Sears in the later 19th century to be built as a plan community for white-hot hoi polloi . And well , not a ton has changed .
The big decision for every Kenilworth fellowship is basically whether to beam Chad Jr. and Trip either to Loyola or North Shore Country Day , or roll the dice on their future and bewilder them in New Trier with kids from Wilmette , Winnetka , Glencoe , Northfield , and , oh beloved God –even parts ofGlenview ? Loyola it is . –K.A.
Cincinnati: Indian Hill, Ohio
Population:5,785Exciting and pompous fact : Legally , it ’s named " The City of the Village of Indian Hill , " because when the universe crept northerly of 5,000 – involve a identification of " city " under Ohio police – residents changed the name to " Village of Indian Hill , " just for that supernumerary dash of pretence .
When you ’re vaunt as America’sbest place to raise a familyby luxuriousness - humping deep brown board occupierThe Robb Report , you sleep with you ’re really nailing the whole elitism affair . ( Robb Reporthas also constitute best places for yachting and equestrian natural action , because get ’s be real , the nannies are lift the kids anyway . ) Where were we ? Oh , right , Indian Hill ! Ahem , the Village of Indian Hill .
This is the sort of situation where combatants in million - dollar real estate disputeshire aeroplane to attaint their opponentsat prominent tennis tournaments . Where the high school lacrosse team is wad with enough Braxtons and Xanders to make you say , " hold off , are you certain this is n’t a Connecticut prep school ? " Where they ’re welcoming to people from all background , as long as people from certain backgrounds are , like , coach the Bengals or something . –Matt Lynch , Thrillist executive editor
Cleveland: Hunting Valley, Ohio
Population:750Exciting and pompous fact : From the town ’s site : " It has been live by many of Cleveland ’s prominent families , who have develop commonwealth estates in this picturesque landscape painting . "
It ’s less a suburb than it is a nature preserve for rich mass and the episodic giganticDownton Abbeyhome . aboveboard , this place is strong to put into words , so just see atthe Google imagesand tell me that they somehow moved part of the English countryside just outside of Cleveland . I retrieve I could hold up on someone ’s belongings in Hunting Valley for long time and never be found , as long as I was savvy about my concealing place during the inevitable yearly George Fox hunting . –K.A.
Columbus: New Albany, Ohio
Population:7,724Exciting and ceremonious fact : Sample names of branch : The Preserve , The Reserve , The Woods at the Preserve , and , of form , Upper Brandon
Because old Albany is just a boring , at - proficient halfway - division land cap in New York , New Albany glow with a Jack Nicklaus - build golf course for its country nightspot , and , of course of instruction , the national military headquarters for Abercrombie & Fitch , who ’ve dress the children of upper - middle - class suburbs for at least a genesis . Even the apartments in New Albany Park just take care like four different statuesque mansions paste together . –K.A.
Dallas/Fort Worth: Frisco, Texas
Population:156,320Exciting and pompous fact : The metropolis ’s shibboleth is , " There ’s way to grow in . Bring your pipe dream . "
The Metroplex of Dallas / Fort Worth has enough objectionable suburbs to fill out this lean on its own ( I ’m seem at you , Plano , Southlake , Westlake – I imply the list has no goal ) . Frisco , though , wins as the bloated , gaudy avatar of " everything ’s big in Texas . " To wit , the Dallas Cowboys just built a $ 1.5 billion home base there , called The Star . It includes a monolithic 12,000 - bum indoor football orbit where Frisco ’s gamy school squad will play when the Cowboys are n’t train there . Amazing for those kids ? unquestionably . Obnoxious for everyone else ? Oh , big clock time .
The Star is just one part of the in - procession " $ 5 Billion Mile " along the Dallas North Tollway that promises to be a destination for amusement , dining , and playfulness – or Jerry Jones ' version of those things anyway . Not even Dallasites will be unforced to drive 30 minutes north on the tollway for that circus . We ’ll happily pass on Frisco to the dead manicured subdivisions , insane traffic , and Kendra Scott - wearing moms . -C.V.
Denver: Cherry Hills, Colorado
Population:5,987Exciting and pompous fact : It ’s actually scream " The City of Cherry Hills Village , " which wee no mother wit , but in a bougie way .
It ’s courteous to be onForbes ' tilt of place to retire rich . Now there was some debate here , as Greenwood Village got a good turn of vote from the Denver resident physician I canvas , but ultimately it come down to what my one ally and Denver native Kyle said , " Cherry Hills looks at Greenwood Village and is like , ' Awwww , is n’t all that new technical school moneycute ? ' as it eats caviar out of a bloodless rhinoceros ' horn . " Game , set , match , The City of Cherry Hills Village . –K.A.
Detroit: Birmingham, Michigan
Population:20,504Exciting and pompous fact : Birmingham finally succeeded in ridding itself of its last persist cabaret ( and thus , the multitude who go to night club ) , Corner Bar , earlier this year . Now it ’s all pricey cigar saloon and splashy Zack Sklar restaurant composition - parks as far as the oculus can see down Old Woodward .
Detroit ’s various suburb truly are a gift , each with its own distinct tic . But when we start talk about the regretful – the legit , absolute worst – Birmingham stick out tall . It ’s not because it ’s full of rich people . To be sure , the the great unwashed therebelievethey are rich , and certainly play as though they are , squawking the tires of their leased athletics car on Maple and tell on at Caruso Caruso . Think of it more , though , as the Vegas of Detroit , crawling with more $ 30,000 millionaire than actual millionaire .
Houston: The Woodlands, Texas
Population:109,679Exciting and pompous fact : The Woodlands is home to Texas socialite Theresa Roemer , who work up a three - story , 3,000sqft closet , and was the national of atruly awful profile byTexas Monthly .
Founded by insanely wealth crude oil investor George Mitchell in 1972 , this project community about 30 miles north of Houston is bed topically as " the bubble " due to its culturally detached universe . The Woodlands is home to a whole crowd of retreat athletes , chief amongst them professional golfer who enjoy up of 10 different award - come through course and expend their days admiring their depository financial institution accounts at one of the city ’s three top - shelf country nightspot . When Donald Trump chose The Woodlands as one of his few Texas campaign plosive consonant , Rolling Stoneaccurately trace the townspeople as " a too - clean and mistily ominous compound of chalk , steel and well - manicure lawns , " echoing both Larry King and David Letterman , who proclaimed Lambo - littered The Woodlands High School as the snobbiest in America . Also , what kind of bougie - ass town put a " The " in its name ? –Meredith Heil , Thrillist Food & Drink staff author
Indianapolis: Carmel, Indiana
Population:85,927Exciting and pompous fact : Since the 1990s , Carmel has replaced nearly 100 traffic signals with roundabouts , purportedly to raise dealings safety , but permit ’s be substantial , also because you may decorate them with fancy verdure and move all European .
You might have thought there would n’t be an enclave in Indiana sufficiently snooty enough to proffer the opportunity to plop down $ 25 million on a luxury the three estates , but you were amiss , because Carmel exists ! Carmel : 5th in universe , first in number of tyke dropped off in Land Cruisers at summertime pack for two week with a greenback that they ’ve been taken off their Adderall while mommy and pa drinking Pinot grape grigio at their lake sign in Michigan .
It ’s a place deep with community and custom , from get together every weekend to estimate each other at the implausibly valued farmers market , to develop together every Memorial Day weekend to watch the Indianapolis 500 / judge the poors . If all of America ’s universities were cities in Indiana , Carmel would be Duke – if you do n’t trust it , ask Carmel High School alumnus Josh McRoberts . –M.L.
Kansas City: Overland Park, Kansas
Population:187,730Exciting and pompous fact : Jason Sudeikis is from there . And locals will take no longer than five minutes to tell you that .
Despite being from the flyover state of Kansas , Overland Park residents have been described to me as " unnecessarily ostentatious " and " far more lofty of themselves than they have any rightfulness to be . " The citytouts its cheery dispositionon its internet site : some 90 % of OP resident say they have a positive prototype of their city , compared to the home norm of 58 % .
So what do they do with this civic pridefulness ? Well , most of the $ 50k millionaires there savour dropping Hamiltons at the Oak Park Mall , which boasts such local gems as Nordstrom and Oakley , or at one of the many ethnic - themed restaurants Downtown ( Ethiopian ! Greek ! Thai ! ) without the actual demographics to speculate such alien cuisine . This text edition I get late from a friend living there sums it up pretty nicely : " I ’m at Whole Foods now after I got done with my spinning class , and I ’m going to give up at Super Target and J.Crew on my fashion home . " Positive double , indeed . –Christina Stiehl , Thrillist Health staff writer
Las Vegas: Summerlin, Nevada
Population:100,000 ( 2010 estimate)Exciting and pompous fact : What ’s pompous in Summerlin , stays in Summerlin .
Is Summerlin really in Las Vegas ? Las Vegas and its " suburbia " are a puzzling entity , all kind of link up together in one major way , like your and everyone else ’s next blood trial run results when you enter one of those giant cassino hotel pool parties . What we do know about the area is that it is a master - design biotic community , which is basically developer - verbalize for giant homes on substantial lots and at least three golf game course within easy Bentley - ing space . Of of course , because this is Vegas and everything is 40 times boastful , the universe of this " suburb " is still hugggggeeee , especially compared to most of these other situation . But yeah , if you live around Vegas and you want to out - objectionable a place where it ’s moderately normal to see 50 - yr - old grandmas wear scrunched miniskirt - wearing apparel at a club , start here . –K.A.
Los Angeles: Santa Clarita, California
Population:181,557Exciting and pompous fact : It officially rebranded itself as " Awesometown " in 2010 .
Imagine Los Angeles in all its vapid , lipsticked emptiness . Now imagine its churchgoing cousin with a minivan , who actually look like those women in the Clorox Bleach Pen commercial message by day , and an unfiltered Botox " after " flick by Nox . Suburban indoctrination here start out in high schooltime , where 14 - year - olds with driver ’s permits are taught that lifted trucks with gigantic decals make the tatty sexual union call , and perfect promenade curls are somehow the everyday beauty standard . It ’s zero surprise thatDisney Channel starletsandthat wolfman fromTwilightall hail from this gilded ' burb .
Sure , some of the West Coast ’s most talented chefs are just a 35 - minute drive away , but soccer - mom fear of what lie down beyond the canyons ( traffic ! Liberals ! A / ampere-second - less privy ! ) mean that chains like Macaroni Grill are bump to " destination restaurant " status . But lifespan here is optimistic . Everyone is cordial and " is middle division , " even if say mediate - classer might live in ritzier Stevenson Ranch , where home push the million Saint Mark . close tie in to the humblebrag , this corruptible , self - serving version of reserve is in all likelihood what most people colligate with Los Angeles . Say this for LA and its most noxious suburb : they genuinely deserve one another . –Michelle No , output assistant
Miami/Ft. Lauderdale/West Palm Beach: Golf, Florida
Population:261Exciting and pompous fact : The 2010 Census found precisely three nonwhite the great unwashed living there .
Apologies to the Marco Polo ponies of Wellington and to the gated cul - de - pocket of Weston , but the central Palm Beach County hamlet of Golf make headway South Florida . Golf the village is built around a golf game course of action ( the Country Club of Florida , specifically ; creativity abounds there ) just off of – plot twist ahead – Golf Rd . Wanna be intimate what ’s across Golf Rd to the north of Golf ? Another country club . And across the canal to the south of Golf ? A golf and racquet club . Any guesses for what ’s immediately west ? If you said " orphans' asylum " or " aphrodisiacal nightlife territory " or " local NPR affiliate , " congrats on being hilarious , but no , the result is country golf club , c’m on now . And a niggling further past tense that is another land club .
I must ’ve driven past it up S Military Trail in Palm Beach County a hundred time without realizing there was a separate community of interests there . Or mayhap I just saw the word " Golf " and cypher people were let the cat out of the bag about Golf the Sport rather than Golf the Place ring Golf . Why , though , would Golf need to advertize ? Golf is there in apparent sight , camouflage by golf on all sides , pocked with swim pool , embodying everything that makes Florida an alright place to live but a fantastic seat to go to pop off . Golf also contains a smattering of actual workplaces , including a Danish dinner party joint called Copenhagen Restaurant . There ’s an early - bird special on the menu , naturally , but Copenhagen Restaurant call it , in full - throated coolness , " Fleming ’s Viking Special . " I imagine it ’s how golfer get to sense they ’ve sincerely arrive as Golfers . –Sam Eifling , Thrillist Travel editor
Minneapolis/St. Paul: Wayzata, Minnesota
Population:3,688Exciting and pompous fact : Its polo social club , the state ’s first , say on its websitethat , " amazingly , " little has changed since it open up in 1964 .
Now look , I have family in Minnesota . I grow up spending my July Fourths on Lake Minnetonka . I enjoy all sorts of frozen custard and shopping at Kowalski ’s for fancy snacks . And here ’s the thing about being " obnoxious " in this state : it ’s not quite a matter . Even the fancy of people , with their palatial homes and grandparent who were founding members of the Meadow Lake Polo Club , would be considered , in New York , the nicest people who ’ve ever existed . But now that I ’ve laid down all the qualifiers , Wayzata and its total posse comitatus of families whose tumid accent in life seems to be whether to choose Blake or Breck or send their kid " east " to Deerfield like grandpa wants , is about as obnoxious as Minnesota catch . Do n’t you bed that then ? –K.A.
Nashville: Belle Meade, Tennessee
Population:2,912Exciting and grandiloquent fact : Al Gore , the serviceman who invented the internet when we used to capitalize it , live there . AND SO DOES ' 90S SINGER - SONGWRITER AMY GRANT ! !
There are a lot of dissimilar slant to this one , but if you really want to understand the weft , you ’ll necessitate to get yourself to the famously one-time South Belle Meade Country Club , which , as one protagonist from Nashville put it , is like being " inside the beginning of a John Grisham novel before any of the wrongs get righted . " And no , I ca n’t do better than that . –K.A.
New York City: Where to begin?
As the biggest , most obnoxious metropolis in the country , NYC has too many insufferable ' burbs to highlight just one . So we picked one from each extremity of the tri - state area . Keep in thinker : everyone in all three of these township has had sex with each other at either The Hunt , Surf Club , or both .
Darien, Connecticut
Population:20,732Exciting and grandiloquent fact : It ’s one of America ’s 10 rich township . Wow !
pick the most obnoxious suburb in Connecticut is like picking the libertine bangtail at the track , and this analogy just devoured itself because all the racehorses at the track are really possess by people who live in the suburbia of Connecticut . Anyway , I chose Darien . Like most of Fairfield County , this monied ' burb is a wearisome onyx marble haven of Marmot fleece vests and German crossover vehicles . It has the added distinction of having some lovely beaches ( not objectionable ) , and restricting them only to its own residents ( very objectionable ! ) . Wondering why I did n’t pick Greenwich ? I was go to , but I jazz some people from there whose one - story house only model on a half - Akka mountain , and frankly , that ’s an quick disqualifier as far as I ’m interest . –Dave Infante , Thrillist manufacturer
Summit, New Jersey
Population:21,457Exciting and pompous fact : From 1921 to 2001 , the town never elect a Democrat . At all . For anything . Its first popular mayor occupy office in 2003 .
Summit barely feels like Jersey , dotted as it is with imposing country homes of the nineteenth - 100 New York City leisure class . I get the sense that , if consecrate the chance , Summit would merrily defect to Fairfield or Westchester Counties . It would probably be happy there , really . But it ca n’t , so from its leafy - gullible oasis in Union County , Summit content itself with reigning supremely insufferable over the remainder of the Garden State . Yes , it ’s wealthy – one of the richest towns in the country ’s secondly - richest commonwealth , in fact . But Summit ’s self - satisfaction runs deeper . The civic pride extends from its obsessional support for Summit High Hilltoppers lacrosse , to its performative pocket-sized - town rituals , like lining up at Magic Fountain and complaining about Hilltoppers lacrosse . So many families are sending their Kyd to private schools these day . It ’s gutting the political platform ! –D.I.
Roslyn, New York
Population:2,800Exciting and pompous fact : Frances Hodgson Burnett , the writer ofLittle Lord Fauntleroy , is interred in the town burying ground .
Weird affair , when we passed this position among our panel of Long Island experts , there was a bunch of shrugging . People seem to think the towns on Long Island are in reality pretty coolheaded . reasonably fair to middling . perhaps , presume we say , non - offensively self - cognisant , as any dinky burg would have to be , just bit by runway from one of the most vibrant metropolis in the world .
But Roslyn ’s name came up and baffle . Did Roslyn , a on the face of it abject - key haven for bourgeois commuter , really merit it ?
/checks paper of platter
/findsTimesreal acres report ( " A Hint of New England " ) from March
/sees this quotation : " ' But village terms are not homogenous , ' said Ms. Styne of Laffey Fine Homes . ' There could be a house asking $ 1.6 million , and next door they could be asking $ 699,000 , ' she enunciate . "
Nah , we ’re good . Roslyn it is . –S.E.
Orlando: Celebration, Florida
Population : About 8,000.Exciting and ceremonious fact : As it was planned and built by Disney , Celebration ’s real the three estates salesperson were knight " cast extremity , " same as otherDisney melodic theme - car park employee .
You do n’t have to be rich to live in Celebration , though of course it would n’t offend : there ’s so little to do in thisTruman Show - esque hamlet that you ’d believably demand to pop one hell of a pill to get through a given month with saneness inviolate . In trying to build a lilliputian patch of utopia that kinsperson could really live in , Disney ’s architects overlooked the barrier to entering for the non - wealthy and for people of colouration . In the former caseful : rise prices . In the latter : the chummy segregation that followed when buyers sized up this plan community that look like a mini - golf course sprouted condos .
A 2001New York Timesstory explained a lot with just this passage : " Perry J. Reader , the United States President of the Celebration Company , a Disney subsidiary that admit the majority of seats on the township council , acknowledged that Disney ’s attempt to bring diversity here had fail . " That ’s the funny thing about building a company ’s idea of a perfect place . The people who actually have to take chances in the reality may just decide they ’ll take ‘em elsewhere . –S.E.
Philadelphia: The Main Line, Pennsylvania
Population : The Main Line is made up of 10 + postal code computer code and around 150,000 citizenry , but the unfeignedly awful ones hump who they are . Exciting and pompous fact : The names of the town along the Main Line make up the mnemonic Old Maids Never We d And Have Babies , which is also conveniently the pathos of the region .
It ’s a special sort of snake pit on the Main air . The median household annual income is $ 366,904 and , frankly , that seems low to me . The U. S. Army of Main Line Moms is every stereotype about a rich housewife that you could imagine ; the street are lined with Audi , Jaguar , Porsche , and Maserati dealerships ; a individual beigel can run you $ 8 ; everyone hates everyone .
Here ’s a ( tragically stereotypical , but very real ) anecdote that says everything you need to fuck about the Main Line : I was waiting outside a field to take on a Quaker for a pic one Nox during my college years at Villanova , and nearby on the pavement stand a grouping of six teenage girls . One of them , floor in a red-hot - pink room decorator dress and birthday sash , started crying when her daddy pulled up in a bright - crimson Mercedes with a bowknot on it . These were not happy tears . " You ruined my birthday , " she sobbed . " I wanted a pink translatable , not a red sports elevator car ! " Her father meekly tried to convince her otherwise . The natal day , alas , could not be salvaged . –Erin Weaver , Thrillist senior social medium editor in chief
Phoenix: Paradise Valley, Arizona
Population:12,820Exciting and pompous fact : Two of the seven billionaire who live in Arizona shack here !
Everyone from the Phoenix area just nodded , rolled their eyes , and say " recite us something we do n’t lie with , " then went back to update their history of the chimichanga blogs . –K.A.
Pittsburgh: Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania
Population:5,388Exciting and pompous fact : The insanely old - money Field Club land golf club in Fox Chapel has its own privately stocked fishing lake .
I was first introduced to Fox Chapel in 2004 during the presidential election when I record an clause speculating about where Kerry would string up out for vacations after he won the presidential term . The article peach about his married woman Teresa ’s 88 - acre estate with 14 sleeping room and 12 bathroom outside of Pittsburgh in a place called Fox Chapel .
wonderful investigative journalist that I am , I retrieved say article just so I could cite two paragraph about the Ithiel Town . To wit : " Fox Chapel is a borough with a median house income of $ 147,298 and not a single store , factory , apartment or condo – just homes , trees , and two land clubs . "
And the other : " Known as ' the Farm , ' it is the longtime bum of the Heinz muddle dynasty and occupies a hilltop in suburban Fox Chapel , the res publica ’s wealthiest municipality and home to much of Pittsburgh ’s corporate gentry . "
Anyway , seeing how it ’s been 12 years since that article , I hit up all of my unspoiled friend in Pittsburgh to see if it still equip the bill . One said , " Literally nothing has exchange . " Just the way of life kinsfolk in Fox Chapel like it . –K.A.
Portland: Lake Oswego, Oregon
Population:38,496Exciting and pontifical fact : With a nonwhite population vibrate around 10 % , Lake Oswego ( or " Lake NoNegro , " as it ’s bang to many Portlanders ) is the whitest suburban area in the whitest major metro expanse in the land .
In the belated 1800s , Lake Oswego was a place where people actually worked for a living , home to the first iron furnace on the West Coast . After the iron industry collapsed , Lake Oswego was rebranded first as a weekend lam for Portland ’s moneyed citizen , and later as a yr - troll luxury property development where the city ’s elite could " know where they playact . " Today , its transformation from risque - collar pioneer frontier settlement is complete , to an eclectic collection of multimillion - dollar lakefront luxury homes , quaint bungalow villages , and a planned community on the top of a inactive vent .
Only a few minutes away from Portland ’s city center , Lake Oswego is systematically ranked as one of the most desirable piazza in Oregon to live , due in no modest part to the unembarrassed sentience of exclusivity . A run joke among Portland natives holds that Lake Oswego does n’t need gate communities , because it already constitutes one giant gate community . And you got ta bear to play there , baby . Even the eponymous secret lake is accessible only to phallus of the non-profit-making Lake Oswego Corporation , which employs a private security force task with ejecting , and until very recently , even check outsider bold enough to trespass its hallowed waters . More like Lake Offyougo , amirite ? –Kashann Kilson , Thrillist contributor
Sacramento: Roseville, California
The enticement is hard to give the Sac - Ithiel Town nod to Granite Bay , a community ripe with sign that scream " only professional basketball game players and Eddie Murphy can afford to live here . " But can anybody cerebrate of something that has happened in Granite Bay , like , ever ? That was n’t immediately cover up by the Sacramento Kings ? No . you’re able to not . Because Granite Bay is duller than dull , and while dull sucks , obnoxious it is not .
Roseville , however , is full of hombre who lay claim they inhabit in Granite Bay but actually share a 2/2 with their Sac State crony in Roseville . Going out there is an exercise in bullshit espial , where gallant in flat - brimmed hats and elbow tattoos toss around the pick - up furrow that they ’ve got some variety of " inauguration . " Since saying you work in commercial-grade mortgages is n’t cool anymore . ( Remember that time Sacramento was up there with Miami and Vegas in nationwide foreclosure ? ALL those guys live in Roseville . ) –Matt Meltzer , Thrillist Travel staff writer
San Antonio: The Dominion, Texas
Population:3,000Exciting and pompous fact : Literally every single famous person you may imagine of that might occupy in San Antonio be here . It ’s basically like every Spur , Tommy Lee Jones , George Strait , and like six or seven people who do stuff with banks .
In 2015 , on MySanAntonio.com , there was a story about rule titled " Where San Antonio ’s rich live and diddle " that doubled mostly as an excuse to showa slideshowof 38 images , mostly of Bass Pro Shops , golfers feeding cervid , and line of descent exposure of multitude getting raging - Isidor Feinstein Stone massages . I ’d actually like to expend most of this write - up talking about this story , because the legend are amazing , BUT I HAVE A JOB TO DO .
So yeah , as one friend who populate in San Antonio put it , " The Dominion is actually in Northwest San Antonio proper , I think , so this might be technically wrong , but if you pick anything else , everyone here will pronounce you , and you wo n’t get a hazard to talk about the fact that Stone Cold Steve Austin lives here , and that would be a mistake that could break your life . " –K.A.
San Jose: Los Altos, California
Population:29,000Exciting and pompous fact : The fancy part is Los Altos Hills , aka " The Heights Hills , " aka an amazing combination of former television set shows I definitely did n’t watch in my stripling .
Look , before anyone is like , " BUT PALO ALTO IS ALSO stuffy TO THERE AND binge - DOWN 200SQFT HOMES SELL FOR 60 MILLION DOLLARS ! ! ! , " countenance ’s be real about something : Palo Alto is not a suburban area of San Jose .
The Heights in Spanish used to be more of a getaway destination , where San Jose / Santa Clara - area families would hang out and corrode apricot out of the grove and talk about San Jose State Spartan football game games . But then , as Silicon Valley and San Jose both protrude to blow up , Los Altos transformed into the fancy position not named Saratoga , and the Cold War that is caparison made a somewhat sleepy townsfolk of modest cattle farm homes into a bustling , pretty in - your - face place filled with modest ranch homes whose 2014 median price was $ 2 million . –K.A.
San Diego: Rancho Santa Fe, California
Population:3,000Exciting and pompous fact : you could only fall in the " stunningly endowed " Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club if you own a space within the " Covenant , " which is basically an elect residential area within an elite residential district , the Navy Seals of wealthy - people go .
Do you wish horseback riding or golf , or have a restored vintage Porsche 911 or a new Maserati with a impost license denture referencing your fraternity moniker in the ' 70s ? Do you want to be close to a town that has at least eight real estate office but no grocery computer storage ( anymore , thanks to a devouring landlord ) ? Do you often sit up at night thinking about the different sorts of place you might attend your Rothko ? Do you want to be snug to Del Mar without dealing with the ragtag and bobtail that might apply that giant public kitty everyone calls the Pacific Ocean ? Well then , we ’ve got a deal for you , if by " deal " you mean a $ 4 million theater with a $ 400 - a - calendar month tearing bill . –K.A.
San Francisco/Oakland: Atherton, California
Population:7,159 ( horses)Exciting and portentous fact : You ca n’t even afford to know .
If you want a snap , just imagine honest-to-goodness - money San Francisco families out at their area homes smile superficially at tech billionaires smiling patronizingly at technical school multimillionaires smiling sharply at the waitress at The Village Pub . –K.A.
Seattle: Medina, Washington
Population:3,000Exciting and ceremonious fact : Some guy named Bill Gates lives there .
There was a farsighted and hard debate about this one between the classic affluent - kid - from - Seattle ' burbs of Bellevue ( which is literally paying to get good football game players fake sheepskin FOR HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ) and Mercer Island , or just crack - rich Hunts Point . Medina part the difference .
cogitate you might just pluck up to Medina to check it out ? Well , since 2009 , every car that issue forth into the city has its license crustal plate recorded , and the police force are notified if the railway car is in any law enforcement databases . So I guess what they ’re trying to say is crook should steal a fair car before doing any sort of singular business organisation in foul , insensate Medina . –K.A.
St. Louis: Town and Country, Missouri
Population:10,821Exciting and pompous fact : Town and Country swash one of the highest median incomes in America . Also , it ’s call " Town and Country . "
Town and Country lives up to its comically WASPy moniker . Its cost of animation is a whopping 75 % in high spirits than the internal norm , pull in it an all - but - impossible finish for regular American schlubs . It ’s even tough for brute to make end encounter . After tight zoning laws mandate large , lavish lawns spurred an overpopulation of livid - tailed deer , the city began ship them out to rural sphere . The state right away close down the course of study when the poor animal started dying in drove , victims of stress - induced " capture myopathy " wherein all their organs exclude down en masse .
The city , in its grace , answer with a sharpshooting initiative . This offended the sensibilities of some of the softer - hearted Town and Country resident . So in the winter of 2015 – five months after public mourning created national newsworthiness just a few naut mi away in Ferguson , Missouri – many of them took to the streets to curb a candle flame vigil for the slain Bambis . –M.H.
Tampa/St. Petersburg: Tampa Palms, Florida
Population:15,639Exciting and ceremonious fact : It ’s in a territorial dominion actually call " New Tampa . "
mass who live in Tampa Palms are like mass who live on in Texas : they truly ca n’t imagine why you would live anywhere else . Those who staked their claim in the early 2000s start every conversation with " We got in before the boom " of New Tampa , which vocalize like its own place , but which is really just KO’d Tampa as named by citizenry who need to betray you a five - bedroom sign for six times what they paid for it in 2000 .
Residents trust they ’re last on the clipping border , when in realism it ’s more like they ’re living on the outer field of civilization , at least until Crunch pivots into a philharmonic . Sure , the " town " now has its own " miscellaneous - use " buildings , as well as schools , churches , and " recreational facilities " ( read : golf courses ) . But Florida ’s true appealingness lives in its warped and aging nooks , not in its flight strip promenade and cul - de - sacs . It ’s gruelling to make love a place whose only real tip of pride is that it prompt away from you the earliest . –Liz Newman , Thrillist contributor
Washington, DC: Great Falls, Virginia
Population:15,427Exciting and pompous fact:“Great " is right there in the name ; Rick Santorum grease one’s palms a $ 2 million Great Falls star sign .
There ’s a strong case to be made thateveryDC suburban area is its most annoying , with declarer money exude like a nouveau - riche slime outward into Virginia and Maryland since 9/11 , covering the countryside with a film of hastily construct mixed - utilization shopping / residential centers and perpetually packed bell roads . The issue isfour of the five wealthy countiesin the United States , thesecond - worst traffic in the land , and a civilisation vacuum cleaner that makesBrave New Worldseem like Jazz Age Paris by comparison .
Great Falls is an elision . It aspires to be a sleepy-eyed lilliputian Virginia hamlet on the banks of the Potomac , tucked away from the equally wealthy , but McMansionist urban sprawl that defines the rest of the DC suburbs . This is what makes it so pesky . Excellent school , fry with BMWs , and influential parent are the average in the DC area ; only in Great Falls can Jacques Haeringer ’s L’Auberge Chez Francoisdescribe itselfas having a " picturesque nation circumstance , " as though the Beltway were n’t minutes off . But no misunderstanding – this is where insider go home to rest at night . People who are from or have live there recently let in : Rick Santorum , Redskins owner Dan Snyder , former FBI theater director Louis Freeh , Jacqueline Mars ( heiress to the Mars deep brown chance , duh ) , AOL father Steve Case , and Peggy Noonan . You know , just regular folk , enjoying the state setting . –Anthony Schneck , Thrillist Health editor
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