TIL that super-rich people love Wyoming. In some counties, the top 1% are richer than the top 1% in New York or California. If you want to meet someone wealthy, go to Wyoming
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/us/billionaire-boom-jackson-teton-wyoming.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RlA.GuzA.bOuJpYknuQsX
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ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 75 pts · 158d
You won't meet them there. They have a house, register it as their home state for tax reasons, the travel to states they actually want to be in. They may take a 2-week summer vacation to the house, but it's not like there are millionaire communes where everyone at the local coffee shop is ultra wealthy.
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 158d
There are in Jackson, but only during tourist season.
As a note, you'll often see or hear it called Jackson Hole, that's the valley just south of the city of Jackson.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 158d
An incredibly beautiful area. Used to go there as a kid 30+ years ago. It was a relative backwater, not super popular except as a stop for people visiting the Tetons.
Full of hundred-millionaires now. Like all the spaces taken over in Montana by the wealthy, or the mountain towns in Colorado like Aspen and Breckenridge. Commoners can fuck off.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 158d
So they're all in one place?
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 158d
The wealthy? Not sure what you’re alluding to, but you’d have to add a lot of other places to the list the wealthy have priced normal people out of. Everything from Texas ranches to the castles on Long Island.
tal@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 158d
It's not as exotic a status as it once was. About ten percent of America is composed of millionaires.
https://apnews.com/article/wealth-retirement-millionaire-stocks-homes-inflation-8bc8bf04552feac2625afd6752faa29e
redsand@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 158d
Country clubs.
Lexam@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 158d
As usual to the detriment of local population.
acme401@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 158d
I don't want to meet any more wealthy people, and I certainly do not want to go to Wyoming.
village604@adultswim.fan · 9 pts · 158d
It's a super beautiful state, though
moonshadow@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 158d
I'd love to do one of those things, guess which
unclellama@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 35 pts · 158d
I'd love to "meet" them! 🔫🤠
BehindetheClouds@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 158d
😂😂🤣
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 21 pts · 158d
Sounds like if we nuke Jackson Hole during the big vacation season, we could solve a lot of America's problems.
SARGE@startrek.website · 10 pts · 158d
kalkulat@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 157d
Hmmm. Maybe it turned into a tax haven ... like neighboring state South Dakota, mome of Kristi Noem.
Or maybe it's: no state income tax. Or a maximum property tax of 2% (city + county). No capital gains, estate, or gift taxes.
Or maybe the 77% Republicans. Or the death penalty.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 158d
Residents of Northwest Arkansas: "First time?"
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 158d
My parents used to live in Fayetteville, the house they sold 13 years ago for $250k is currently worth $750k and the houses on either side have been bulldozed into combined lots for mini-mansions. It’s nuts out there.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 158d
Invite them to a Hunting Trip... Dick Cheney style
discocactus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 158d
I have it on good authority that it was actually a 20 (maybe less!) yo hooker that shot his buddy. Cheney took the fall cause he knew he'd get away with it and didn't want the bad press (seems like overkill now but...). Friend used the same guide service.
Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 157d
Archer@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 158d
Well yeah, you can pay very cheaply for people to keep the poors in line