Forget about the Upper East Side of New York or Atherton, California, as bastions for the ultrarich.
The tiny waterfront city of Medina, Washington, is where several of the world's wealthiest people live.
Located just outside Seattle, Medina is home to the world's two richest people: Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.
But they are far from the only moneyed residents. The town's inhabitants include numerous other Microsoft bigwigs, tech entrepreneurs, and telecom magnates.
We visited to see why the sleepy town has become a haven for the 1%.
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Medina is located on a peninsula just across Lake Washington from Seattle, and it has long been a haven for tech bigwigs in the area.
Visitors enter the town from the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge. Measuring 7,708 feet in length, it is the longest floating bridge in the world.
Source: The Seattle Times
Medina is a city of about 3,000 people. The Medina Beach Park doubles as the city hall and police station.
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