We all want to live in Rich People City

AJ Mastav
5 min readJul 3, 2021
According to the CIA World Factbook, Monaco has a poverty rate of zero (photo by Jan Vasek, https://jeshoots.com/)

The idea of a city for the rich is tantalizing. Like a Richard Scarry book, but instead of the town baker being a lion or the local carpenter being a bear, that guy pushing a stroller is Tim Cook and the woman in line behind you at the grocery store is Kelly Ripa.

There are plenty of little enclaves for the obscenely well-off scattered around the country. Rich people have to sleep somewhere…

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AJ Mastav

Professional planner, unprofessional writer. Member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Also, a former Sunday School teacher.