Let's take for example, the town of Greenwich, CT. A town in southwest Connecticut that has an easy commute to the financial district of NYC.
... Greenwich (/rnt/ GREH-nitch) is a town in southwestern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. At the 2020 census, it had a population of 63,518.[2] Greenwich is a principal community of the Bridgeport"Stamford"Norwalk"Danbury metropolitan statistical area, which comprises all of Fairfield County, and is part of the Western Connecticut Planning Region. The town is the southwesternmost municipality in both the State of Connecticut and the six-state region of New England. The town is named after Greenwich, a royal borough of London in the United Kingdom.[3]
It is the largest town on Connecticut's affluent Gold Coast. Greenwich is home to many hedge funds and financial services firms due to its residential setting and proximity to New York City.[4][5] ...
Greenwich is home to three of the wealthiest zip codes in Connecticut, 06878, 06830 and 06831, with average adjusted gross incomes of $754,990, $638,560 and $721,550, and median household incomes of $182,386, $109,250 and $155,417, respectively.[31]
In recent decades, the town has attracted wealthy expatriates from around the globe due to its extremely low tax rate,[32] desirable school system, and proximity to Manhattan, which is an hour by Metro North.[33] The median listing price for a home in the town was $2.3 million in 2021.[34]
The coastal neighborhood of Belle Haven, along with Backcountry, have some of the wealthiest single family real estate in the world.[citation needed] In 2014, the highest asking price for a residential property in town was the Copper Beech Estate at $190 million. It later sold for $120 million.[35] ...
Greenwich, Connecticut was a mostly Democrat jurisdiction up through 1892, voting for the Democrat in 13 of the 17 presidential elections from that party's founding in the mid-1820s up through 1892.
Then the GOP would win Greenwich in 27 of the 28 presidential elections from 1896 to 2004, and in three of the last four presidential elections, the Democrat has carried the town. ...