Are there any posh areas of Ohio?
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Anonymous
| Cincinnati has big pockets of obnoxious wealth. We were there for a weekend reunion and saw three Tesla trucks in one day. |
Anonymous
| Akron? Dayton? |
Anonymous
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Bexley
Hyde Park Shaker Heights |
Anonymous
| Avon Lake and a bunch of the west lake communities are very posh, very expensive homes. |
Anonymous
Shaker Heights, Bratenahl, Pepper Pike, Gates Mills, Hunting Valley. |
Anonymous
| Depends on how posh you need. Moreland Hills and Gates Mills are at the very wealthy end of the Cleveland suburbs, but they are the land of mansions set far apart from one another. Shaker Heights or Chagrin Falls don't have the concentrated wealth, but they have village-scale settings (Chagrin Falls a real village, Shaker a suburb-as-small-town) that might be more interesting as a fictional setting with multiple kinds of characters. Moreland Hills is directly next to Chagrin Falls, so you could combine both. |
Anonymous
| Hyde Park in Cincinnati |
Anonymous
| Parts of New Albany (suburb of Columbus) are pretty wealthy. New money, so many not "posh." But gosh, there are some big, beautiful homes. |
Anonymous
They can ask questions. Writers do research. |
Anonymous
There are a lot of auto suppliers in that area. More likely connected to the auto industry than garden variety rich people. The Cybertruck is just launching. It's similar in price to the Model X. |
Anonymous
| +1 to Chagrin Falls and Shaker Heights. |
Anonymous
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Not Shaker Heights. It's long past its prime. Cleveland is a declining and shrinking metro area and Shaker isn't unaffected. Parts of it is run down. The nicest parts were certainly very nice and expensive and old money Cleveland (or whatever passed for it) but time has not been kind to Shaker. The real money in Cleveland doesn't live in Shaker but further out in Pepper Pike, Hunting Valley and Gates Mills. A lot of Shaker was also more modest than the popular conception of it outside Cleveland.
I'd rank Indian Hill and Hyde Park in Cincinnati as more "old money" than anything in Cleveland. New Albany is very new money but Columbus is where the new wealth is being generated in Ohio. Given that OP knows nothing about old money, she might have more fun with New Albany and scandals at the NACC. |
Anonymous
Ok British people don't say huh. Not going to explain to a hick like you! |
Anonymous
| I read a book by Curtis Sittenfeld that was a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice (I think) set in Cincinnati. |
Anonymous
| I would pick a moldering mansion in Bratenahl. |