02 August 2014

Billionaires are everywhere...


...except Maine, it seems.

Jordan Weissmann has a Slate article about them:
This is a map of the richest Americans in every state, created by the blog of the real estate brokerage Movoto. For a while, I stared at it trying to glean some sort of deeper insight. What does it say that Maine, vacation home to so many fabulously rich, has no billionaires to call its  own? How about the fact that the richest man in Delaware, the PO box of corporate America, is only worth about $830 million? Why have the Waltons dispersed across the country, like so many unimaginably wealthy dandelion seeds carried by the wind? How many of these men and women pick their home address based on state tax rates?
Rico says he doesn't feel sorry for Maine; the billionaires spend lots of money there every summer.

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