I would pick a moldering mansion in Bratenahl.

I read a book by Curtis Sittenfeld that was a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice (I think) set in Cincinnati.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's say you were trying to contrive a setting for an upper-crust tale of deceit and scandal in Ohio. What town would you choose? Pepper Pike? Gates Mills?

Posh? Are we British?

Huh?

Ok British people don't say huh. Not going to explain to a hick like you!

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.

+1 to Chagrin Falls and Shaker Heights.

Anonymous wrote:Cincinnati has big pockets of obnoxious wealth. We were there for a weekend reunion and saw three Tesla trucks in one day.

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 wrote:OP, if you don't know where these fancy Ohioans work, summer, golf, hunt etc...how will you write a good story?

Write about what you know.

They can ask questions. Writers do research.

Parts of New Albany (suburb of Columbus) are pretty wealthy. New money, so many not "posh." But gosh, there are some big, beautiful homes.

Hyde Park in Cincinnati

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.

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Anonymous wrote:People have already written those books and they are set in Shaker Heights.

The homes in Shaker Heights, Cleveland are stunning! Beautiful homes

Shaker Heights, Bratenahl, Pepper Pike, Gates Mills, Hunting Valley.

Avon Lake and a bunch of the west lake communities are very posh, very expensive homes.

Bexley
Hyde Park
Shaker Heights

Akron? Dayton?

Cincinnati has big pockets of obnoxious wealth. We were there for a weekend reunion and saw three Tesla trucks in one day.