Is there a distinction you’ve noticed? Or do the rich areas just blend together?

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  1. The Upper East Side of Manhattan for Old Money, especially if it’s got a view of Central Park. New money would be like…Tribeca?

  4. I guess Highland Park in Dallas would be old money. New money would be Southlake?

  5. The geography of the whole state of Connecticut is divided up in a way that knowing what town someone grew up in gives you an approximate idea of what kind of money their family came from. Also, the school they went to is a dead giveaway in some cases. For example, if they went to Hopkins or Choate.

  6. New money is in Portland or right outside. The old money is more in Kennebunkport or Cape Neddick area.

    The real new money is in some rural ass area you haven’t heard of on a lake just living their best life and not giving a shit about their zip code.

  7. In Chicago it’s the Gold Coast/Streeterville area. For the suburbs we have an entire area called The North Shore which includes several suburbs and is where The Home Alone house is from.

    For new money probably West Town. Practically the West Loop and Wicker Park. I’m not sure about the suburbs.

  10. New Hampshire doesn’t really have any large cities that are noteworthy but some towns that give off more of an old money sort of vibe would be places on the Seacoast such as Portsmouth, Rye, Hampton, and New Castle along w smaller towns throughout the state such as Hanover, Wolfboro, Meredith, and Peterborough.

    New money sort of vibes imo are more places like Windham, Bedford, and Hollis/Amherst.

  11. Salt Lake City:
    Old money – The Avenues / Capital Hill
    New money – Daybreak / Herriman / Draper

  12. Indian Hill and Amberley Village are the two rich places near me. Idk if any of them are old money. If anything, I’d say that Amberley is older money than Indian Hill just on a guess though.

    Neil Armstrong used to live in Indian Hill, that is how rich it is.

  13. Birmingham:

    Old Money: Mountain Brook/Highland Park

    New Money: Greystone/Shoal Creek

    Rich people who think they’re upper middle class: Vestavia Hills

    Rich people who rather live with artsy people: Homewood

    Rich people who rather hang out with regular suburbanites: Indian Springs Village

  14. In Saint Louis, the old money neighborhood is Ladue. Some also live in the Gilded Age mansions near the Central West End.

    New money lives in Town and Country and Chesterfield.

  15. The new rich become the old rich after a time.

    There is a weird upper crust in Manhattan of questionable royalty, the newer very rich and some older but not quite as rich. I have a friend who is part of that scene, he tells great stories. I wouldn’t say there is so much of one stereotype in one neighborhood anymore.

    It’s changed all over. Even the Back Bay from what I understand. Now it’s all money talks.

  17. Los Ranchos would probably be old money, I’m not sure about new money, maybe the far north heights

  18. Neighborhoods around the Eagle Creek Reservoir and Geist Reservoir are the old money areas. Carmel and Fishers are more new money.

    But there’s wealth spread throughout Indianapolis. The pretty generic northwest Indy neighborhood I grew up in was mostly middle class ranches and two story homes, but has a small mansion row including one really large estate.

  20. “Old money” is not a thing in Miami. Unless you consider Havana’s Old Money as part of it.

    In any event, most of South East Miami would be new money. Palmetto Bay, Cutler Bay, Coral Gables, etc

  21. Old money: Upper East Side specifically west of Park Avenue over to Central Park. Those pre war co-ops and condo buildings you have to have at LEAST $100M liquid cash to even be considered and you better not be a celebrity ok. Where the Astor’s and vanderbilts used to live

    New money: Williamsburg (gentrified) or Bushwick because they’ll take anyone that can afford to be there

  22. For Seattle, it’s [Medina](https://www.homes.com/property/3225-evergreen-point-rd-medina-wa/00pgzg0lmpdg7/) (which is where Bill Gates resides), [Madison Park](https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1500-42nd-Ave-E_Seattle_WA_98112_M98636-39523), [Denny Blaine](https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1212-39th-Ave-E_Seattle_WA_98112_M28599-84802), and most opulently, [Mercer Island](https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/Mercer-Island_WA_98040_M90389-61637).

    True old money families are the likes of the Denny’s (as referenced above), and the Boeings, Pigotts, and Nordstroms. That said, I consider Bill Gates and Bezos “old money” at this point. Once you reach “Fuck You” billionaire kind of money, Old vs. New money doesn’t matter.

  23. It’s pretty blended in the Bay Area, because we have so much new money here. Like we literally have some of the most stuffy affluent neighborhoods in the entire country here, but you’ll have a ton of people like Zuckerberg and other tech founders living there as well. Even when I was working at small unknown private tech companies, the founders were able to buy 20 million dollar homes in those neighborhoods after the company got acquired.

  24. Yeah. I live in a city of over 100k and there is a reputation for one part of town that is old money, but I don’t actually know how true it is. It obviously has all the nice older houses, but whether the families there are new or old money I have no clue. New money tends to build outside town – we still have room to expand and still be reasonably close to city amenities.

    Even my uncles’ town has an ‘old money section” and they are just a small river town.

  25. Old money: Bel Air/Holmby Hills/Brentwood, Hancock Park,

    New money: Calabasas/Hidden Hills.

  26. Washington DC:

    Old Money: Chevy Chase, Kalorama, and of course Georgetown.

    New Money Millennials: Shiny new condos at the Navy Yard or The Wharf, or rowhouse on Capitol Hill

    New Money GenX/Boomers: McMansions in Potomac MD or Loudoun County VA

  27. Old Money: The Philadelphia Main Line (railroad money)

    New Money: Kinda scattered all over the place in suburbs about 30-40 mins outside of the city in almost all directions. Ex. Newtown, Glen Mills, big sections of Chester County, etc.

  28. In Cincinnati generally old money tends to live around Indian Hills area, New money is more around Mount Adam’s, Oakly, Hide Park area.

    Cincinnati is weird though like 3 mansions in a row and a house with the roof caved in.

  29. Yes (a few come to mind) and yes (maybe harder to think of the new money spots).

  30. >Or do the rich areas just blend together?

    Pretty much, I guess? This thread is a WILD ride to me because I am not rich enough to know or care much about the distinction between old money and new money.

  31. Houston – old money is in river oaks/memorial/rice area (but big new money goes there too); new money is in certain parts of the Woodlands/Sugar Land.

    Sacramento – old money: fab forties and certain areas of Arden (next to section 8 housing it’s weird) whereas new money goes for giant ass mansions in granite bay

    LA – old money likes Hancock Park and San Marino, newer and biggest money likes Bel Air/Beverly Hills/Holmby Hills; new money likes Calabasas/Hidden Hills/Venice.

  32. I wonder what our British friends are thinking as they browse this thread.

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