While the others are mostly poor islands, Loma Linda (which means "pretty hill") is a fairly affluent, small community and inland, about 65 miles due east of Los Angeles.
"It's a mockery," said Mr. Siner, who lives in Rio Grande, just inland from the affluent resorts of Avalon and Stone Harbor.
The beach-side suburb of Cottesloe has beautiful sea views and easygoing charm, while just inland are the affluent suburbs of Peppermint Grove and Dalkeith along the Swan River, popular for their proximity to top schools and the downtown core.
Ms. Pelosi advances a theme of the failed American dream: homeless kids in an affluent county (though not affluent in the inland areas where they live); unhappy lives across the street from Disneyland, the happiest place in the world.
In Santa Cruz, an affluent county south of the city, it has accelerated.Inland, by contrast, the situation is dismal.
As a result of one of the chancellor's earlier decisions, more affluent households with children have until tomorrow to tell the Inland Revenue whether they want to stop receiving child benefit or see its value clawed back through the tax system.
For the first few days after the crisis there was a surreal disconnect between the scenes of chaos and devastation along the coastline, and the orderly, affluent, seemingly undisturbed communities just a few miles inland.
With an area of 383 square miles (991 square km), it is divided into three hill masses: one stretching along the lake; another inland, bounded north by the Thur River and south by its affluent, the Murg; and the third at the southern extremity of the canton, merging into the pre-Alpine zone of Mount Hörnli.
Fifteen miles inland from Redcar is the pretty market town of Yarm, which has the most affluent high street in Wharton's constituency.
As Joel Kotkin of Chapman University has pointed out, the interests of the affluent class along the coasts began to crowd out the interests of the middle-class suburbanites and agricultural workers further inland.
