New England HOMELIFE - January/February 2019

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PGA National Resort & Spa - West Palm Beach, FL The Mar-a-Lago Club - Palm Beach, FL

Private Community - Palm Beach, FL

Downtown - Palm Beach, FL

North of Boston is home to some of the first planned private country club communities in the United States. The courses are spectacular, the homes exquisite and the amenities are plentiful. For almost 100 years Bostonians have flocked to Palm Beach in the winter months. The perfect north/ south connection carried on through generations of families from old money to new. Palm Beach was the place to be in the winter and there was no shortage of stately homes, high end yacht clubs and exclusive

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private country clubs to mingle for business and pleasure. The Breakers, Trumps Mas-a-Largo, PGA National, Palm Beach Country Club all have become centers for social and charitable endeavors and huge parties for the in-crowd for decades. Forbes, “Billionaire List” has over 50 of the wealthiest people in the country having addresses in Palm Beach which has shared the top spot as the zip code with the highest per capita average income in the U.S. with Fisher Island, Florida. Palm Beach today is

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a fully developed community, world-renowned for its beauty, quality of life and small-town character. It is home to “Captains of Industry” and the world famous Worth Avenue. Approximately 9,000 citizens make Palm Beach their year-round home, and about 20,000 more have a seasonal home in Palm Beach where they enjoy the winter months. Together, these residents of Palm Beach donate more money per capita to charities than any other community in America, much like the residents of the clubs in the North Shore of Boston.

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