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Believe it or not, there are young people out there who can buy wine off the top shelf and afford to buy clothes at full-price. It’s a bananas concept, I know. As it turns out, there’s a bunch of bankers, lawyers, and software developers who are making bank across the country. Like, $350,000-type-of-bank, which probably makes your jaw drop in disgust and hatred.
Zillow’s study compiled a list of cities where the most rich people between the ages of 22 and 34 live, defining “rich” as earning an excess of $350,000 a year in their given household.
Per Bloomberg:
1. Arlington, VA.
2. San Francisco, CA.
3. Huntington Beach, CA.
4. Seattle, WA.
5. Sunnyvale, CA.
6. Pasadena, CA.
7. Denver, CO.
Call me crazy but this doesn’t exactly make much sense to me. Four of the top six cities are in California. Isn’t California where you go to legally smoke weed, play on the beach, and complain about how much plastic the rest of the United States uses? I lived there for six months and that’s pretty much what I did, and I left because in order to live as lavishly as I wanted to, you either had to come from money or fall ass-backwards into money. But hey, maybe that’s what all these young ballers are doing.
In addition, they also compiled a list of cities where these rich kids outnumber baby boomers, which has to be a real kick in the dick to all those old farts complaining about how shitty our generation is. It went as follows:
1. San Francisco, CA.
2. Sunnyvale, CA.
3. Huntington Beach, CA.
4. Elk Grove, CA.
5. Jersey City, NJ.
6. Arlington, VA.
7. Glendale, CA.
8. Seattle, WA.
9. New York, NY.
10. Hartford, CT.
11. Milwaukee, WI.
12. Yonkers, NY.
13. Jacksonville, FL.
The lesson here? If you wanna rub elbows with some young big wigs, “Go West, Young Man.” Otherwise you’re just going to have pale ankles and a paycheck that looks like their bar tab. .
[via Bloomberg]
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Cost of living though.
If you make north of $70K you can live like a King in Atlanta.
Fortunately I’m comfortable just living like a Prince in Atlanta
Uh, maybe in a zip code where they’re just as likely to catch a bullet as they are the bus
What??? No you can’t.
I lived in Buckhead as an analyst and made double that and it didn’t go THAT far.
Key word: Buckhead
Where else would a king live in Atlanta? Doraville ?
I’ve lived in Buckhead, Brookhaven, next to Emory, Poncey Highlands, and just bought a condo in Midtown. It’s not that tough, i’ve never paid more than $650/month for rent.
You can find affordable stuff in Buckhead, but you can also end up paying $2K for a “luxury” condo on Peachtree if you want. You just have to know where to look/rent.
Not many of the desirable areas of ATL are cheaper than Buckhead these days. Midtown, Virginia-Highland, Inman Park/O4W/Grant Park, West Midtown are all getting pretty expensive.
Will, you’re better than these articles man. I’m still waiting for your cruise recap.
Good things come to those who wait.
See, now you’re getting my hopes up for one of your better pieces, don’t break my heart
Living in Seattle is a big sacrifice, even for $350k/year. I’d rather live somewhere else and make a little less.
True story man. Seattle’s cost of living is through the roof. And the ‘brogrammers’ are almost annoying as the hipsters (of course I’m the only preppy guy in a 150mi radius of Seattle.) But, the influx of cash is helping to clean up the streets and hobos.
Yeah, everyone loves clean hobos.
What’s the sacrifice? Having mountains, ocean, and desert within driving distance and only worrying if you’ll freeze your ass off outside maybe 5 days a year?
I really can’t think of a single reason to live in San Francisco.
Or Seattle..
And we’re ok with that.
Sell me on it. What makes it so great? What can you get there that you can’t get somewhere else for less?
An entitled lesbian who wears frameless glasses?
Boom.
Not big on SF but Seattle is great – mountains 30 minutes away, mild weather, tons of jobs, legal weed if that’s your thing. I live in Chicago but visited plenty of times
“mild weather” must be synonymous with rains 2/3 of the fucking year
I can vouch for Milwaukee, though I do not claim to be rich by any stretch of the imagination. Rents are getting outrageous.
Makes sense for Arlington. Good chunk of that income goes towards ridiculous rents and huge property taxes.. At least there’s still half priced taco nights.
If you’re young and poor, then you probably live in a city somewhere smack-dab in the middle of all those. Or any of those, but you don’t have a trust fund.
Elk Grove FTMFW
Living in #1 and making….I’ll just go cry in the corner.
I got a job offer in Arlington/D.C. with a think tank type organization. It was $65,000 a year which seemed nice for a 24 yr old until I looked at cost of living. $54,000 in Atlanta had been much friendlier.
You tell really good stories.