The anomaly of such out-of-town wealth surrounded by so much local poverty grows more stark every tourist season.
New age guru stereotype dictates that I should find Tolle bloated by wealth, surrounded by fawning acolytes, an egomaniac in robes and gold chains.
And even "cool"; cool Parisians know in their heart of hearts that they live in a rather staid, bourgeois island of wealth, surrounded by the ring road, or Périphérique, which is a kind of Berlin Wall — or ghetto wall.
An ALPR system is already operational in ritzy Tiburon just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, and it's being considered in ritzier Piedmont, an island of wealth surrounded by Oakland.
Kimberley Johnson, an urban studies professor at Barnard-Columbia who is writing a book comparing black communities in Oakland and Newark, N.J., wonders if the most economically successful American cities are belatedly reverting to the European banlieue model, with an urban core of wealth surrounded by a broad ring of poverty.
This is truly a beacon of hope shining through the sunlight-blocking wealth piles surrounding them.
The wealth that surrounded her in youth and age were never her own, but always her father's or husband's".
They feel poorer not just because of the growing earnings gap between the rich and others, but also because of a newer phenomenon: in this media-dominated age, we're far more aware than we've ever been of the wealth that surrounds us.
Pockets of wealth are surrounded by oceans of poverty, and yet they are actively increasing their development assistance offer.
That wealth, as well as the wealth of the surrounding suburbs in Montgomery and Howard Counties, has been partly fueled by federal dollars.
