What are the sixty areas of the world that contain the greatest
numbers of families making more than 1 million dollars a year with net
assets exceeding 2 million dollars.

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Request for Question Clarification by robertskelton-ga on 10 Nov 2002 16:30 PST

Please define "areas". Countries, cities, states, suburbs, geographic areas?

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Clarification of Question by orice-ga on 11 Nov 2002 05:39 PST

Examples Marin County California. San Francisco Bay Area. Silicone
Valley. Lake Forrest Illinois. Beverly Hills California. Monaco,
Switzerland-Geneva. etc. Obviously America will have more counties and
cities than Swazaland.

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Request for Question Clarification by techtor-ga on 13 Nov 2002 07:48 PST

Greetings Orice,

I have found links to different sources such as online magazines that
list most affluent areas based on their own surveys. For example, one
site lists top UK places according to average annual income per person
(highest is L36,001). I wonder if this sort of information will
suffice if we can't find the exact information you indicated in your
question.

Might be difficult to answer your question. A paper on the subject
concludes:

This paper has suggested that has been a surprising lack of study of
the world’s super-rich....

...there is certainly no reliable inventory of the world’s super-rich
(and, in any case, it needs to be conceded that a role call of
high-worth individuals could generate a list some six million names
long if one accepts the definition of the super-rich as those with
assets of one million dollars plus). Given their transnational status,
the super-rich represent elusive and slippery research subjects. But
the challenge here is not solely methodological, with geographers’
ability to adequately describe the geographies of a group who exceed
traditional definitions of residence and nationality bought into
question by the rising numbers of those who dwell in transnational
space and time.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb93.html

You might want to contact Thomas Stanley, the author of "The
Millionaire Next Door" and "The Millionaire Mind". He's the top guy
who studies the affluent.

Techtor