Yippiee! I live in the wealthiest city in America!

[RB TexLa]

While also living in one of the poorest cities in America in Louisiana.


Census data ranks Plano as wealthiest large city in U.S.

01:22 PM CDT on Thursday, August 28, 2008

By BRUCE TOMASO / The Dallas Morning News
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Plano is the wealthiest large city in America, according to the Census Bureau.

A Census report issued this week shows that among cities of 250,000 or more, Plano (whose estimated population is just over that threshold) has the highest median household income, $84,492.



http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/082908dnmetcensus.1e989ff3.html

[midnight]

1. My sister has a home there. It also had the highest suicide

rate in the 90's.

[Sal Minella]

2. Sounds like Marin County, California, in the seventies?

[TomInTib]

3. No kidding

But I haven't heard about anyone in our Town (Tiburon) killing themselves in quite some time.

[yellowdogintexas]

4. oh yeah there was a string of teen suicides in Plano a few years back. I had

totally forgotten about that

it was very sad

[Texasgal]

5. and also a very large heroin

abuse number.

[ba5500]

6. RE:

Strange