Pretty easy answer here:

If you're actually wealthy: Buckhead

If you're kind of rich: Mountain Brook

Taxes are significantly lower in Mountain Brook, you send your kid to public schools, and the amenities (I.E., Country Clubs) are a steep discount in comparison to those in Buckhead.

Provided you own a 4-BR home in Buckhead, send two of your rat-bastard kids to private school (Westminster, Lovett, Pace, etc...), belong to Capital City, Cherokee, PDC, or Ansley, and pay for your Falcons/Hawks/Braves ticket pack for clients/family, your operating costs are likely $250K a year before you save a penny.

Mountain Brook is a much better bargain, and I absolutely get the appeal. However, there's another echelon of wealth in Buckhead that isn't nearly as saturated as it's cousin to the west due to Atlanta just being 100x the economic engine Birmingham is. Whether or not that's good, I mean, it is what it is.

I get we'll have folks think this is *some* debate and depending on income scale, it is. But if we're talking about national destinations for the affluent, Mountain Brook doesn't tip the needle, plainly, because the GDP of Birmingham isn't even top-50 in the country. Atlanta's would be 40th in the world as it's own nation.

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Posted by Old Money

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Posted on 7/27/21 at 9:41 am to rebel cat

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My cousin just bought a house in MtnBrook and he thinks he's a big shot.

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Posted by tigerinthebueche

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Posted on 7/27/21 at 9:50 am to Old Money

Is MB in Georgia? Google shows it as a burb of Birmingham. I thought Birmingham was ghetto like NOLA?

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Posted by Y.A. Tittle

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Posted on 7/27/21 at 9:55 am to tigerinthebueche

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Is MB in Georgia? Google shows it as a burb of Birmingham. I thought Birmingham was ghetto like NOLA?

Kind of. Unlike New Orleans, though, Birmingham has this little mountain separating it's ghetto area from it's moneyed enclave area.

Buckhead may be ritzier, but it makes the ghetto of Atlanta think it's a great place to hang out.

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Posted by TU Rob

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Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:05 am to Y.A. Tittle

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Kind of. Unlike New Orleans, though, Birmingham has this little mountain separating it's ghetto area from it's moneyed enclave area.

And all the locals call them the Over the mountain communities. All of Mountain Brook, Vestavia, Hoover etc are over the mountain. Parts of Homewood are on either side of the mountain, but most of it is away from downtown.

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