Oh, by the way, the list:
1. Falls Church City, Va., $121,250
2. Loudoun County, Va., $118,934
3. Los Alamos County, N.M., $112,115
4. Howard County, Md., $108,234
5. Fairfax County, Va., $106,690
6. Hunterdon County, N.J., $103,301
7. Arlington County, Va., $99,255
8. Douglas County, Colo., $98,426
9. Stafford County, Va., $95,927
10. Somerset County, N.J., $95,574
11. Morris County, N.J., $95,236
12. Montgomery County, Md., $94,365
13. Prince William County, Va. $93,011
I guess I’ll have to change my tagline to “Below average in Somerset County”.
All that building in Stafford County really has made a difference. That county used to be relatively poor.
Think The Capital in The Hunger Games. When will the districts rebel?
That $16T in debt went somewhere.
It’s EXACTLY like a malignant tumor devouring all of its hosts resources until it kills the host.....
We need to get our representatives out of that company town and back in their home states and districts and sequester them there while they SERVE.
Good luck getting lobbyists to visit John Conyers in his district.
Small quibble, but this is a ranking of average annual income, not average accumulated wealth.
For many decades the left have decried the “concentration of wealth” in the west, particularly in the USA. Apparently on a global scale, the “concentration of wealth” is an evil thing, but on a national scale it is (in their minds) the way things ought to be....
Your tax dollars at work; doesn’t funding all that bureaucracy and all those bureaucrats to supervise making Americans jump through paper hoops bring a warm glow to the heart...?
No wonder VA is not a red state any more.
So I say, I say welcome, welcome to the Boomtown
Pick a habit, we got plenty to go around
Welcome, welcome to the Boomtown
All that money makes such a succulent sound
Welcome to the Boomtown
Not sure where they are getting the numbers, but the richest city, per capita, in the United States is Midland, Texas. It just replaced Greenwhich Conn.
From google: