Sentence examples for exclusive town from inspiring English sources

A resort, or an exclusive town?

To tamp down perceptions that he was building a racially exclusive town, the senior McKissick briefly considered changing its name to Open City.

In a culture rife with discrimination cases brought by minority and white plaintiffs, the complaint, which was filed in 2006 and contended that "Greenwich is a racially exclusive town," has been a sore spot.

In Mountain Village, an exclusive town beside Telluride that is or has been home to Oprah Winfrey, Dick Ebersol and Susan St. James, Marilyn and Dan Quayle, and Senator Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey, there are 75 homes for sale on the market, an all-time high, according to real estate agents.

In the last decade, California courts have considered whether Malibu homeowners can post "No Trespassing" signs, while Connecticut's have declared that the beaches of Greenwich and other exclusive towns, which once barred nonresidents, are open to all.

Here in Los Altos, where the median home price of $1.5 million makes it one of the most exclusive towns in the country, several houses scheduled for auction were still occupied this week.

Just why so many new -- and not particularly wealthy -- immigrants would feel comfortable in one of the most exclusive towns in North Jersey, where the median household income is $130,848 and housing prices often begin at a half-million dollars, has to do with more than just the tango.

But what Mr. Ferguson witnessed as he peered through the glass door of a colonial style home here in one of New Jersey's most exclusive towns the other day left him groping for adjectives: a handful of cats and dogs, fur matted and unkempt, walking aimlessly amid piles of animal feces that in parts of the house was nearly knee high.

He has been feeding tabloidy morsels to the press and trashing local law enforcement officials by name, saying they run this exclusive seaside town like "a suburb of redneck Mississippi".

The Dongan Charter, which established Albany as a city, made Albany the exclusive market town in the upper Hudson River Valley.

Even without a Swedish Lizzie Grubman incident to draw attention to the class distinctions that can rise with the mercury in such exclusive resort towns, it seems that egalitarian Scandinavia has a few of its own summer rites, rituals and locals-only codes of behavior.