The conventional wisdom is that the country's richest areas are in places like Beverly Hills or Manhattan, where single paychecks cover $20 million houses for financiers and entertainment moguls. However, if you parse it out on the county level, the richest places in America, based on median household income, are overwhelmingly in the Washington, D.C., metro area and New Jersey, and sprinkled throughout Colorado and Georgia. Based on 2006 U.S. Census data, these are the richest counties in America, along with examples of what kind of property $1 million will buy.
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