The detrimental effects of continued and increasing state tax in high tax northern states such as New York and Connecticut is beginning to show its effects and fast. Connecticut and Manhattan were once home to numerous Wall Street big wigs and high income earners, yet residents have either fled to states such as Florida where the state is funded off of property tax and sales tax amongst others. While Greenwich, CT is still in the top 20, as is its Riverside neighborhood, Manhattan failed to crack the top 20 with any neighborhood.
Taking the cake, Miami’s ultra-luxe, hyper-private, ferry accessible Fisher Island 33109. Ask where the new residents are moving from and you will hear what you would expect, New York, Connecticut and New Jersey. Fisher Island has always attracted the rich and private, but in just a short timeframe they neighborhood has catapulted itself to a lead of over $1 million more of annual income per household at an astonishing $2.5 million per year.
Fishr Island has a fascinating history, named after South Florida pioneer and founder of Miami Beach Carl G. Fisher who purchased the island from Dana A. Dorsey, Florida’s first African American millionaire. Fisher later traded the island for William Vanderbilt’s yacht. The development that transformed the island into its current form began in the 1980’s and although there are now just over 220 properties on the island, by modern standards the island is just as exclusive only accessible by boat, ferry or helicopter.
Fisher Island’s 33109 is followed by Silicon Valley’s Atherton, CA (94027); Palm Beach, FL (33480); Palo Alto, CA (94301); Harrison, NY (10577); Gladwyne, PA (19035); Los Angeles, CA (90067); Kenilworth, IL (60043); Weston, MA (02493); San Francisco, CA (94111); Far Hills, NJ (07931); Boston, MA 02110); Portola Valley, CA (94028); Moose Wilson Road, WY (83014); Naples, FL (34102); Medina, WA (98039); Riverside, CT 06878); Old Westbury, NY (11568); Glencoe, IL (60022), and in twentieth, Greenwich, CT (06831), according to a Bloomberg study of IRS data.
