They aren't necessarily rich enclaves - some have substantial blue-collar, minority populations - but almost without exception the independent cities are doing better than the adjoining sections of Los Angeles.
Journeys: Visiting Southern California's Little Saigon, and other enclaves rich in food and culture.
The episode has stunned the community, one of the richest and most storied enclaves of suburban privilege in New Jersey.
Jennifer turned off the news grid This time the target was a less rich enclave, outside the main dome of St. Paul, Minnesota.
The rich green enclaves of the Northern Suburbs, stuffed with mining magnates, conmen and liberal politicians.
Hinduja is in one of India's richest enclaves, but it is a second-tier, little-known school, and so it exemplifies a middling college experience - neither the best nor the worst.
The allee of maples has grow into a high canopy and makes the garden side of the house a rich, shady enclave.
There are Basques from California to Idaho, and they've created rich enclaves of their culture.
In other words, San Anselmo, where John Walker, the American caught among the Taliban fighters, became a teenager, looks like any very rich suburban enclave.
From the start he was a money man, a man politicians and charities went to when they wanted to cast their nets into the rich enclaves of the Westside.