Posted on 10/20/2011 11:18:54 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
07620 Is Number One, but 11962 Is Rising Fast
Ritzy vacation towns and Lower Manhattan neighborhoods join this year's ZIP codes list. Continue..
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
The 50 Most Expensive Zip Code Gallery from Sotheby's International Realty.
07620 Alpine, NJ tops the list with median price change up over 19%, 94027, Atherton, CA up 7.1%
with other zips in NY on the rise. 92091, Rancho Santa Fe, CA is up over 51%. 07931, Far Hills, NJ is up almost 21%....
Jennifer Lopez is moving into to her newly acquired $18 million home is in the village of Water Mill, The Hamptons [NY] which is the 14th most expensive ZIP code in the country, with a median home price of nearly $3 million, according to Forbes.
Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen recently bought a $25 million penthouse in New York City. Other residents of the tony building include Deutsche Bank director Kevin Parker, Texas oil bigwig Sid Bass, hedge fund guru Daniel Nir, and financier and philanthropist Ezra Zilkha. The median sales price from June to August 2011 was $2.2 mil, up 76% from the same period 2010.- UPack.com
What does this all tell you about the media reported economy in a recession, the housing market, the buyer sought after protection from exclusive communities, and the states which are reported to have the most government debt and higest tax rates have the richest zip codes?
10 Most Broke-A** States, but Moody's Investors Service, March 30, 2011, found fiscally irresponsible states don't fall at top of their list of states when it comes to the Highest Debt Per Person
Those in the private sector can manage their own money, better than the state and federal government can manage the taxpayer's money? Because they never had to earn it.
Comical. I once lived in a roach-infested, walk-up slum in a highly ranked NY zip, and I now live in a white-glove doorman building, but my current zip isn’t on the list.
Can we just cut off California and let it become it’s own country or something? I know they’re the world’s fifth largest economy, but we’ll do just fine without them. They’ll probably be fine too, but atleast we won’t have to be associated with them anymore.
/amirite?
//ashamed to be in Californian. Hopefully moving to the wholesome, exciting state of Oklahmoma soon.
I am not sure if the are number 6 anymore and Texas is coming up fast.
An acquaintance who once lived in L.A. told me that people there would deliberately use a swanky zip code not their own on all their address materials and wait 5 to 7 extra days for their mail, just so others would think they lived in the “right “ zip code.
Does that mean the Cali-FReepers can stop donating and supporting FRee Republic?
So did you join Free Republic today so you could slam California as a whole???
Having lived throughout California all my life (20 in SF) I can absolutely confirm that California deserves all the ridicule, derision and contempt it can possible attract.
Look up stupid, inept and dysfunctional in most dictionaries and you'll find "California Legislature."
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