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Here are the richest suburbs of each of America's 35 biggest cities by Kevin Alexander on Oct 31, 2017, 1:15 PM 
- Thrillist identifies the richest suburbs of the 35 largest cities in America — specificially, the most "obnoxiously rich."
- They canvassed experts on each city to identify which would make the list.
- Some of the towns included are: New York's suburb Roslyn, LA's Santa Clarita, and the Atlanta suburb, Brookhaven.
We're gonna take a guess: If you're checking to see if your town is on this list, you probably live in the sort of place that would take the "Obnoxiously Rich" distinction as a secret point of pride. And why not? It proves what you've known — this place is great, and the only reason more people don't say so is because they can't admit the facts. Grand houses. Great schools. Excellent tennis instructors. The very best groundskeepers and gated-subdivision on-call security guards in the city.
But you know what really makes your town special? The people. And it's the people — your people — we want to celebrate in this list. Our methods are partly data-driven, mostly subjective. We canvassed experts on all of these cities, many of them natives of your town either years ago or presently. A lot of these choices did come down to silly little quantifiers like money — but what doesn't, though, are we right? — while other factors, we navigated by feel. Put it this way: If you're here, it's not merely for being wealthy or pompous or aloof or profligate, although you may be all of the above. No, mostly you're here because you bring that certain extra something. You're unmistakably, unabashedly yourself. You may not be the coolest — these are the coolest suburbs in America — but who wants to be cool when you can be rich? SEE ALSO: Retiring a millionaire at 43 hasn't made me 'happier' — but it was definitely worth it Atlanta: Brookhaven, Georgia  Population: 51,029 Exciting and pompous fact: Decades ago, long before incorporating as Brookhaven, this new North Atlanta city was actually a city named North Atlanta (because ewww, "Atlanta"). Today, the city of Brookhaven is exactly what it sounds like: a haven for people named Brook. There's Town Brookhaven, which is one of those weird villages that has decent-at-best food, a theater with couches and alcohol, and a Costco. There's Peachtree Golf Club, which was designed in part by Bobby Jones in the late 1940s, and therefore gives residents the feeling that they belong to something but in reality makes them a tiny version of Augusta, and LMAO at that being a thing. They even tried to have their own version of Atlanta's beloved Dogwood Festival – the Cherry Blossom Festival — which recouped only half of the $300k+ budget it blew asking people to come by and spend their money on some shit you're apparently supposed to buy while looking at some damn flowers.—Mike Jordan, Thrillist Atlanta editor emeritus
Austin: West Lake Hills, Texas Population: 3,063 Exciting and pompous fact: A 2005 "Texas Monthly" essay on growing up in West Lake Hills says: "Attending Westlake High meant never having to apologize for being wealthy or successful. And if other towns hated us, it surely wasn't our fault." Secluded from the rest of Austin by way of the Colorado River, Westlake sits high atop the enviably scenic hills of West Austin, and residents clearly relish their geographical vantage point as they literally look down upon all those lesser neighborhoods from their frightfully steep driveways. Even worse than these silver-spooners (who still consider themselves "hip" and "alternative" because they're "from Austin") are their insanely privileged spawn who terrorize the area around Westlake High School in their Range Rovers but, lucky for the rest of the city, don't deign to venture down from their perch in the hills too often. —Ciera Velarde, editorial production assistant
Baltimore: Clarksville, Maryland  Population: 11,236 Exciting and pompous fact: Even the Wikipedia page brags about how its public schools are better funded than competing private and charter schools in the area. I can't really speak to this area, so I'll let my friend who grew up in Howard County do the honors: "A town of big, historically charming homes owned by people who made their money doing incredibly boring things, so they compensate by trying to ramp their snobbiness up, quite possibly out of boredom. Also, somewhat confusingly, they have a Ruby Tuesday." Maryland confounds me. —Kevin Alexander, national writer-at-large
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