Population: 15,200
Median household income: $171,847
Median home price: $2,075,930
Amount spent on vacations/yr: $10,125
You may have heard of Maricopa County's tough-as-nails sheriff Joe Arpaio, but there's a lot more than pink-jumpsuit-clad chain gangs to this happening Phoenix suburb. The typical home goes for more than $1.7 million, and it's not unusual to find some of the more fashionable dwellings on the market for more than $10 million. A Who's Who of bold-facers past and present live here, including Dan Quayle, Stevie Nicks and Alice Cooper.
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