Wealthy Residents Transform Modest Idaho Town

30 September 2002 - 9:00am

Ketchum, Idaho started life as a modest town. It's now a haven for the wealthy, forcing out lower-, middle- and een upper-middle-income families.

"Ask any resident and they can list 15 or so famous residents. Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver are all considered community fixtures... 'All these people building elaborate secondary houses, that drives the prices up, which drives the property taxes up,' he said. 'When your taxes go up 200 percent but your income doesn't, you have to sell. People who have lived here their whole lives are going south.'"

Source: Spokesman-Review, September 29, 2002
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.