Posted September 12, 200816 yr Large and wealthy cities? Ohio no hot spot for them No city in state made list for high earnings, population Wealthy communities, by their very nature, tend to be small and exclusive. A prime example is Fisher Island, Fla., which enjoys the highest per-capita income in America. The Miami suburb, an island that once belonged to the Vanderbilts, had just 467 residents when the last census was conducted in 2000. Their annual earnings equaled a neat $236,238 a person. The two runners-up in the per-capita income derby are also tiny. Jupiter Island, Fla., ($200,087 per-capita income), 100 miles up the Atlantic coast from Miami, had a population of 620 in 2000. And Baker, Mo., ($182,000), tucked in the southeastern corner of that state, was home to precisely five people that same year. Read More...
September 12, 200816 yr ^Technically, Arlington Virginia is a county, not a city, but since the county is smaller than the DC I guess it is kind of a moot point. Anyway, the clear and present reason for the success of a place like Arlington is the spillover of federal jobs into the surrounding suburban areas of Virginia and Maryland from the capital. There are fifteen executive departments (and I don't know how many independent agencies) in the federal government, of which at least nine don't really need to be located in the Greater Washington area at all. Could you imagine the impact the placement of a federal executive department could make in one of the ten poorest cities in the country?
September 12, 200816 yr ^ the clear and present reason for the success of a place like Arlington is the spillover of federal jobs into the surrounding suburban areas of Virginia and Maryland from the capital. For the most part federal employees can't afford Arlington or Alexandria. These high incomes in the DC area are mostly contractors, lobbyists, etc. all feeding at the public trough.
September 12, 200816 yr >Could you imagine the impact the placement of a federal executive department could make in one of the ten poorest cities in the country? You stole my idea. To be fair there are federal offices and military operations of all kinds spread randomly throughout the country, but Washington DC alone is responsible for quite a bit of Midwestern brain-drain. These candidates talk a lot like they care about Ohio, but moving just one of these departments to the Youngstown area as steel was leaving could have made a big difference. Obviously they don't necessarily employ the same kinds of workers, but it nevertheless helps reduce the abandonment of industrial cities and creates a lot of spin-off jobs in restaurants, retail, etc.
September 12, 200816 yr And what do Arlington, Va.; Thousand Oaks, Calif.; Naperville, Ill.; Alexandria, Va.; and Stamford, Conn. have in common? Four have rail transit and are connected to a growing metro area. The only one of those four which doesn't have rail is Thousand Oaks, but it's close to a busy Metrolink/Amtrak line through Oxnard and Ventura into LA. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 12, 200816 yr It's not fair to compare a place like Alexandria/Arlington to an Ohio city. If you ask me, large scale concentrated wealth is detrimental to a region in terms of segregation and inequality. I would say that Mt. Adams for example is on par with Alexandria, it's just smaller. Wealth is more fragmented here (although there are still heavy segregation issues due to topography and local public policy).
September 12, 200816 yr in a sense it's quite excellent news to not really be on that kind of list as you could say that wealth is more fairly distributed across the state of ohio. i'd rather have that...and take the uppity media rips on mediocity or boringness or whatever, than for ohio to have so highly segregated concentrations of wealth.
September 12, 200816 yr in a sense it's quite excellent news to not really be on that kind of list as you could say that wealth is more fairly distributed across the state of ohio. i'd rather have that...and take the uppity media rips on mediocity or boringness or whatever, than for ohio to have so highly segregated concentrations of wealth. You say that sitting in Chelsea. humph! :wink:
September 12, 200816 yr What, did you move to the Village? lol If I could afford Manhattan I'd live there in a heart beat. Screw all you poor people! I'll take Cartier, etc and buy my razors at a 2 story Duane Reade!
September 12, 200816 yr What, did you move to the Village? lol If I could afford Manhattan I'd live there in a heart beat. Screw all you poor people! I'll take Cartier, etc and buy my razors at a 2 story Duane Reade! Haha nothing like getting off topic to Duane Reade.. (Do you have a club card?!?!)
September 12, 200816 yr What, did you move to the Village? lol If I could afford Manhattan I'd live there in a heart beat. Screw all you poor people! I'll take Cartier, etc and buy my razors at a 2 story Duane Reade! Haha nothing like getting off topic to Duane Reade.. (Do you have a club card?!?!) LOL No but if I can ever get through college and can afford it, I'll get one the day I move in. Best believe that.
September 12, 200816 yr no i'm not --- i don't live in chelsea. isn't your block considered Chelsea? or is it GV?
September 12, 200816 yr gv. or meatpacking. or chelsea. the nexus of nonsense. how appropriate, right? but yeah, techically its gv. 10014.
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