Like I said, people here are not flashy and are for lack of a better word "cheap". They save their money for retirement and most have modest homes and not McMansions like you would see in other places.
“If it weren’t for the national laboratory, Los Alamos might be just another stagecoach stop in the desert,” Caitlin Dewey, the author of the article writes. “The facility, a powerhouse for weapons engineering, bioscience and other government research, is the town’s largest employer. Top chemists, engineers and physicists have pulled in hefty paychecks here since 1943, when the lab launched the Manhattan Project.”
The news did not come as a surprise to Los Alamos National Bank CEO Bill Enloe, who said Los Alamos has been on top of this list before.
“I have been asked before, what’s the deal?” Enloe said. “Millionaires, they include what’s in their retirement funds. Most of the people up here work for the lab and the lab has a good retirement system and many of the people have been in the system for more than 20 years, which means they have accumulated a lot of retirement.”
Enloe also thinks the people of Los Alamos are conservative with their money.
