But even with its picturesque blocks, hopping nightlife and relative affluence, the area has its challenges.
Despite signs of relative affluence in the village, daily life there already borders on the bizarre.
Sharmeen Obaid, a recent graduate of Smith College, returns to Karachi, where she grew up in relative affluence.
Korean dramas especially have highlighted to the people the relative affluence and freedom South Koreans enjoy," Stratton says.
They spent a few months in Greenwich Village and some years enjoying relative affluence in various communities in the suburbs.
In the 1960's, an era of relative affluence produced year-round contracts and performing arts complexes like Lincoln Center.
The relative affluence of the crowd "is a good thing," said Farid Beshay, a 29-year-old Christian.
The first group has an internationalised culture, a belief in what the modern vernacular calls diversity, and the confidence that comes with education and relative affluence.
He was sometimes frustrated, Ms. Braudy writes, that radical groups like the Industrial Workers of the World excluded him because of his relative affluence.
"The variations cannot be accounted for by prevalence of crime, fear of crime, available claims data or by relative affluence," they said.
With the rise of the Internet, the relative affluence and sophistication of people willing to pay for sex has changed significantly, and so have their expectations.
