These days, young creatives are fleeing a city that has become too affluent.
Q. Do you see Americans as too affluent to incorporate principles of sustainability into their everyday lives? A. I don't think that affluence necessarily leads to nonsustainable practices.
Some of those acts — James Taylor, the Eagles — are now considered, fairly or not, irrelevant to the Zeitgeist: too mellow, too affluent, too sexless, too white.
For one thing, many graduates are perfectly happy not to have much more to do with Great Neck South — a place remembered by some as too affluent, too competitive, too evocative of a certain type of suburban experience.
Perhaps that was because Obama didn't press his campaign's and other Democrats' fierce attacks on Romney as someone too affluent and too encased in a financial-sector cocoon to understand the anxieties and struggles of less fortunate Americans.
And while a few people will be hurt — young, healthy individuals too affluent to qualify for subsidies, wealthy taxpayers, etc. — a much larger number of people will be helped, some of them enormously.
Squeezed by rising prices, those too affluent to qualify for social housing but not affluent enough to buy in newly-expensive areas – sometimes the very areas where they were born – look further afield.
With its fabled horse farms in the northern part of the county and median household income of $62,103, Fauquier County was too affluent to qualify for economic aid offered by the Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration to many communities faced with base closings.
The son and successor of Herman J. Russell, the city's most prominent black general contractor, he was born in 1965 at the Hughes Spalding Pavilion, which Grady opened across the street in 1952 to serve a growing black middle-class too affluent to qualify for charity care.
