Beverly Hills 90210? Forget about it.
Honolulu? The leafy suburbs of Westchester County and Connecticut? Great places to live, and hardly cheap, but they lack the distinction of ZIP code 07620, where the median asking price of a home is $4.14 million.
Sure, that's a lot, but if you move in, your neighbors will include sports superstar Patrick Ewing, comic Chris Rock, and music mogul Sean Combs, as well as Stevie Wonder and Mary J. Blige.
It's the most expensive ZIP code in the country, and it's in New Jersey.
The tiny Bergen County community of Alpine tops Forbes' annual list of America's 100 priciest ZIP codes.
Most of the slots in the top 10 list are filled by California, aptly nicknamed the Golden State. The only New York City neighborhood to crack the top 10 is the West Village, 10014, while Brookside in Mendham Township, 07926, comes in at number 10.
Farther down the list of the top 100 are several other New Jersey ZIP codes. New Vernon places 57th; Mantoloking is 76th; Far Hills, 84th and Saddle River, 85th.
Did you notice that part about California covering most of the slots in the top ten and New Jersey holding numbers 1 and 10? Why do you think that is? What do those two states have that the others are lacking to one degree or another? Could it be this and this?
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
"Could it be this and this?"
ReplyDeleteBwahahahahahahhahahaha.
You can't be serious?
You nailed it, man! The success of NJ and Cali (monetary success, not success at fighting crime -- they're still looking for that) has only to do with their restrictive gun laws.
ReplyDeleteIt's just like the fact that most anti-gun states are next to the ocean. The ocean prefers to only border states with restrictive gun laws.
Most scientise agree this is a major reason why the ocean is trying to melt its ice caps; it wants to inundate Florida and get rid of it.
Says MikeB:
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think that is? What do those two states have that the others are lacking to one degree or another? Could it be this and this?
Please be kidding. Please tell me that you don't truly believe that California's and New Jersey's draconian gun laws are the reason those states have areas with insanely overpriced real estate.
By that "logic" (I'm in a generous mood, apparently), Japan and Great Britain would be populated only by the mega-wealthy, because no one else could afford to live there.
No, it is completely unrelated to guns. It has to much more to do with restrictive zoning practices that essentially take land off the market for building, thereby driving up the price of the land that is already there.
ReplyDeleteSorry mikeb, everything is not about guns. Some is just basic economics.
Correlation does not equal causation.
ReplyDeleteMost scientise agree this is a major reason why the ocean is trying to melt its ice caps; it wants to inundate Florida and get rid of it.
ReplyDeleteA little warning would be nice, Little Steve--you caused me to spray iced tea out my nose all over my keyboard.
Ah, well--it was worth it.
Come on. Surely this was a joke post. Good one Mike. You reeled some in.
ReplyDeleteWell, all those rich folks could just have lived anywhere else they pleased.
ReplyDeleteThey could have moved in next to kaveman and listened to him shooting up his rec room on a midsummer's eve or what ever....
Obviously, the fact that New Jersey and California have very nice places to live in close proximity to major media centers have a lot to do with it, but having very nice places to live takes more than scenery...
No, it's not all about guns, you're right, but the gun laws are undeniably a contributing factor to the quality of life there.
Now, excuse me, I'm gonna go shoot up some stop signs just for the hell of it.
...or maybe the people there like the idea that only the wealthy and powerful can have guns, not ordinary people...
ReplyDeleteIt was mainly a joke, with some little seriousness underneath like Microdot said.
ReplyDeleteBut, by far the funniest part was some of your comments. I swear I was laughing out loud last night reading them.
At one extreme we had FatWhiteMan, who was right with me. On the other we had Mike W., who took it so seriously and wrote such a scathing comment that I deleted it.
I'm still laughing.
The thing is, MikeB, that when you posit, apparently in all seriousness, that federal gun laws should be made even more draconian than they are now, because .0241% of Wyoming residents commit suicide--some with guns--it's hard to know when you're being serious and when you're kidding around.
ReplyDeleteWhy should anyone take you seriously, ever?
Anyone who reads anti-gun blogs gets used to absurd logic and hysterical irrationality. I wasn't serious, but I assumed you were ...
ReplyDeleteC'mon, you guys love my sense of humor. Admit it.
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