Which is the best place to live near New York City...??

Question

From the best I mean......expensive houses, nice community, low crime rate, easy access to NYC, all the shopping malls, theatres etc......and how much income is must to have in those areas......like >80K, 90K or 120K...........thanks !

Answer 1

Greenwich Ct come to mind.

http://www.greenwichct.org/Home/default.asp

Here are the sales of homes from 10/1/2004 to 10/1/2005:

http://greenwichct.virtualtownhall.net/Public_Documents/GreenwichCT_Assessor/revalResCounterSaleInfo-Address.pdf

A lot of $1,000,000+ homes.

Both, the Official AENGLC Wealth Value and the CPR AENGLC Wealth Value show Greenwich as having the highest wealth value in Connecticut at over $430,000 per person. About 2.5% of families and 4.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.1% of those under age 18 and 3.2% of those age 65 or over.

However, the claim of “wealthiest town” is misleading. Three other nearby towns have higher per capita income and four have higher median household incomes than Greenwich. Per capita income is higher in New Canaan ($82,049), Darien ($77, 519) and Weston ( $74,817) than in Greenwich ($74,346), with Westport ($73,664) almost on par according to the 2007 AENGLC. In addition, according to the CERC town profiles at CT.Gov., the median incomes of these towns in 2005 were: $164,076 for Weston, $160,178 for Darien, $158,091 for New Canaan, $135,542 for Westport and $112,041 for Greenwich, respectively. According to CERC Greenwich also has a higher poverty rate and more subsidized housing than these other towns. However it should be noted that Weston, New Canaan, and Darien have significantly smaller populations then Westport and Greenwich. Towns with larger populations have more people in various income brackets that skew the median income. On the above ranking, the town Weston (which has the smallest population) has the highest median income and the town with the lowest, Greenwich, has the highest population.

Check this out:

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2006/snapshots/CS0933620.html