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Originally Posted by Crawford
The NYC area doesn't follow this pattern. The exurban areas have the worst population/economic trends. The inner suburban ring is faring much better than the outer fringe. Westchester is doing better than Fairfield, which is doing better than the inland CT counties, Nassau is doing better than Suffolk, Hudson/Bergen/Essex/Union are faring better than the outer Jersey counties, etc.
There are some metros in the U.S. that follow your pattern. Detroit and Cleveland definitely follow this pattern.
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Not sure about doing better. Most of the population increase in the inner counties are immigrants, with a much smaller contingent of upper middle class people, though enough to bring in a lot of noticeable infrastructure improvements. Some wealthy immigrants are buying up condos in Jersey City as well, but also happening on a small scale.
The boom exurbs of NYC are in NEPA. The far outer burbs are very anti development or avoided, due to taxes etc. The middle burbs is where most of the wealth is; NJ wealth belt, Fairfield, CT, Outer Westchester, Princeton area, Suffolk LI Northshore and Northeast Monmouth county. There are a few extremely wealthy inner suburbs.
Outside of Texas, Carolinas, Nashville, Denver, Phoenix, Seattle, Orlando and Tampa metros everything is slowing down.