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Originally Posted by Gordo
Jackson Hole and Sun Valley are legitimate centers of wealth (similar to Park City and Aspen, also here).
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I'm aware that they are all hoity-toity mountain resort areas full of 5 percenters (and relatively few lower income people to dilute their numbers), but these are all still absolutely tiny counties in terms of population. Blaine, Teton, and Pitkin are all around 20,000 people. That's it, only ~20K, in the entire freaking county! My small little random neighborhood on the far northside of chicago has more than twice that many people. Summit County is a little bit bigger at 36,000 people, but still tiny as far as county populations go.
When I think of wealth centers, I think not only of places with assloads of wealth (in aggregate), but also of the places where that wealth is actually created.