8Los Alamos, New Mexico
Los Alamos, meaning ‘the cottonwoods’, is located in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, US, and it was built upon 4 mesas of the Pajarito Plateau and White Rock Canyon.
Why is this a location for the rich and famous? Los Alamos is home to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, founded to undertake the Manhattan Project.
With a total population of 18.040, Los Alamos probably has the highest concentration of rich people on this top list.
Engineers, physicists, top chemists, all willing to spend large amounts of money since 1942, when the Manhattan Project was launched.
