America's richest county - In the heart of the Empire.

[Anti Federalist]

Meet America's Richest Counties

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/meet-americas-richest-counties.html

By Nathan Vardi, Forbes.com
May 13, 2011

If you want to get a sense of what an economic powerhouse Washington has become in recent years, look no further than the Virginia suburb of Falls Church City.

Boasting a strong school system and positioned about six miles from the nation's capital, Falls Church has for years enticed rich families, making it the nation's richest county with median annual household income of $113,313.

"It indicates that the City of Falls Church is located in a healthy economic area in the national capital region," says Wyatt Shields, city manager for Falls Church. "We are proud of the fact that we take advantage of the city's healthy economic area to attract people to live here."

It's No. 1, but it isn't alone. In fact, four of the top ten richest counties in the nation are concentrated in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, and a fifth, Howard County, Md., is equidistant between Washington and Baltimore.

[LisaNY]

The government employees live in luxury while the peasants suffer.

[ExPatPaki]

my neck of the woods.

funny how people used to call Falls Church "dangerous" because a kid brought a gun to the high school there.

[Travlyr]

This is what I imagine the "private schools" taught their children. Become lawyers, buy influence, take all you can from the public coffers.
While the public schools taught work hard, pay your taxes, save your money, retire at 65 and go fishing.

Little did we know that "the money changers" have been ripping us off for 100 years or more.

[AGRP]

The servants are now the masters.

[fisharmor]

To be fair, there are a good number of actual businesses in the area, like AOL, Oracle, Computer Associates... and you can see the trend there.
As far as places that actually make actual stuff... they are conspicuous in their absence.
But yeah, the vast majority of employment is two things:
1) Government and government contractors
2) Infrastructure, like construction, HVAC contractors, etc.

There is literally nothing of substance made here.