tl;dr: The opposite of New York. I grew up in a town with a high per capita income, but fairly low inequality. There were a few tiny religious and Montessori

tl;dr: The opposite of New York. I grew up in a town with a high per capita income, but fairly low inequality. There were a few tiny religious and Montessori schools, but pretty much everyone's kids went to the public schools. Home prices probably varied by a factor of 10 or 20; there were both crappy old duplexes and McMansions, but no genuine slums or palaces with car elevators. No one commuted by helicopter. The richest and poorest had shared interests.