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Jupiter Island Is Where Golf's Old Guard Quietly Retired

A narrow barrier island on Florida's Atlantic coast, once favoured by old Palm Beach money, has become one of professional golf's most concentrated residential enclaves.

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Cap Ferret Is the French Elite's Answer to Saint-Tropez, Minus the Crowds

A pine-forested peninsula on the Arcachon Bay has been the discreet, deliberately unglamorous retreat of France's own old-money families for generations, oyster farms and all.

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Baden-Baden Has Been Europe's Discreet Aristocratic Retreat Since the 1800s

A 19th-century spa town that drew Russian and European aristocracy to its casino and thermal baths has kept much of that old-money character intact, long after most of its contemporaries moved on.

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Charleston's South of Broad Is Where the American South's Old Money Stays Put

Founded in 1670, Charleston has kept a small, closely held peninsula neighbourhood of old planter and merchant families largely intact, alongside a major arts festival that draws the wider East Coast establishment every spring.

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Cowes Is Where Britain's Yachting Old Guard Still Gathers Every August

The Isle of Wight town has hosted the world's oldest sailing regatta since 1826, and Cowes Week each August still pulls the same blazers-and-burgees crowd it always has.

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East Hampton Was Old Money's Summer Address Before 'The Hamptons' Was a Brand

Long before the Hamptons became shorthand for summer wealth, East Hampton was a quiet artists' colony and a private, old-money retreat on Long Island's South Fork, a character it has largely kept.

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Vail Is the Colorado Ski Town Old Money Never Traded In

Built in 1962 on a deliberately European template, Vail grew into one of America's largest ski resorts while keeping the pedestrian village and old-guard second-home crowd that first defined it.

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Why Menorca Is Where the Old Money Goes When Ibiza Gets Too Loud

Menorca has spent decades deliberately staying smaller and quieter than its Balearic neighbours, and that restraint, protected by its own UNESCO biosphere status, is exactly what keeps a discreet, wealthy crowd coming back.

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Sylt Is Germany's Answer to the Hamptons, Thatched Roofs Included

A windswept North Sea island reachable mainly by a causeway train, Sylt has spent decades as the discreet summer address for Germany's wealthiest families, with Kampen's thatched-roof houses at the centre of it.

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Lake Maggiore Is the Italian Lake Old Money Never Had to Share

While Lake Como built a modern celebrity reputation, its larger neighbour Lake Maggiore kept the Belle Époque grand hotels and Borromean island palaces that first drew European aristocracy, without ever chasing the same spotlight.

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Montreux: The Swiss Riviera Town Where Chaplin, Freddie Mercury and Old Money All Settled

On the shore of Lake Geneva, Montreux has drawn a specific kind of resident since the Belle Époque, grand-hotel aristocracy, later Charlie Chaplin and, for the final years of his life, Freddie Mercury.

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Bermuda's Pink-Sand Coast Has Been Old Money's Quiet Retreat for a Century

Under two hours' flight from New York, Bermuda has drawn wealthy East Coast Americans since before the term 'jet-set' existed, much of its old-money reputation still centred on one exclusive golf club enclave.