COMMENTS:
Voted : Moscow
Hmmmm, tricky one! I knwo Dubai is a haven for the rich and famous, but BILLIONAIRES arent football players and the like, they are businessmen of some sort, and so they might want to be a bit closer to the financial action. I guess..
Dang! I was going to say London based on your other ballot. Are there any pretty, female ones near me that I can seduce do you know?
Voted : Dubai
I'll guess Dubai
according to forbes, 23 billionaires live in london --
A check of Forbes' current list of the world's richest people finds that of the 23 billionaires in London, only 12 are British. The rest come from places as far flung as India, Iceland and South Africa.
forbes . com nov 16, 06
actually, according to forbes, nyc has 45 billionaires --
New York City still claims the most 400 list members per city with 45.
David Hamilton Koch New York, NY
Carl Icahn New York, NY
Keith Rupert Murdoch New York, NY
Samuel Newhouse Jr New York, NY
Leonard BlavatnikNew York, NY
Ronald Owen Perelman New York, NY
Michael Bloomberg New York, NY
Ralph Lauren New York, NY
Leonard Norman Stern New York, NY
Paul Milstein New York, NY
Stephen A Schwarzman New York, NY
Joan H Tisch New York, NY
Edgar M Bronfman Sr New York, NY
Bruce Kovner New York, NY
Donald John Trump New York, NY
Leonard Alan Lauder New York, NY
Ronald Steven Lauder New York, NY
Henry R Kravis New York, NY
David Rockefeller Sr New York, NY
Leona Helmsley New York, NY
Mortimer Zuckerman New York, NY
Stephen M Ross New York, NY
Herbert Allen Jr New York, NY
Leon Black New York, NY
Tamir Sapir New York, NY
Stanley Druckenmiller New York, NY
Austin Hearst New York, NY
Wilma Stein Tisch New York, NY
Sheldon Henry Solow New York, NY
Stewart Rahr New York, NY
Sanford Weill New York, NY
Dirk Edward Ziff New York, NY
Robert David Ziff New York, NY
Daniel Morton Ziff New York, NY
Thomas Haskell Lee New York, NY
Steven Roth New York, NY
Barry Diller New York, NY
Herbert Siegel New York, NY
J Christopher Flowers New York, NY
Michael Jaharis New York, NY
Israel Englander New York, NY
James Cayne New York, NY
Ira L Rennert New York, NY
David E Shaw New York, NY
Julian H Robertson Jr New York, NY
^^ Oy vey! 
Voted : New York
has to be a large city.
by LCD on Mon Dec 04, 06 9:48am
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APOLOGIES all round, I should have researched this more, I normally do but rushed this quiz out before I went to work this morning.
I actually read the above information in a book of lists over the weekend while browsing in a book store, I should have double checked over the net which is what I've just been doing, Kev correctly quotes Forbes, but I'm finding contradictions all over the net, Moscow is quoted by Forbes in this BBC report from 2004 as having the most billionaires;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3710977.stm
The Russian capital Moscow now boasts more billionaires than any other
city in the world, according to a survey by Forbes magazine.
The study also estimates that a quarter of Russia's wealth is now
concentrated in the hands of just 100 people.
Topping the list with an estimated fortune of $15.2bn is Mikhail
Khodorkovsky, the former head of the oil firm Yukos, who is presently
in jail facing charges of fraud and tax evasion.
The 37-year-old oil and aluminium tycoon, Roman Abramovich, who last
year bought London's Chelsea Football Club, is Russia's second
wealthiest man, worth $12bn.
'New stage of capitalism'
Oil and gas industrialist Victor Vekselberg, who made the headlines
this year when he bought the world's second-largest collection of
Faberge eggs, came in third with $5.9bn.
Mikhail Prokhorov and Vladimir Potanin, co-owners of Norilsk Nickel,
came in fourth and fifth with their wealth estimated at $5.4bn each.
Also on the list was Mikhail Friedman, head of the Alfa Bank, Vagit
Alekperov, head of Lukoil, and the fast-rising Russian entrepreneur in
the aluminium sector Oleg Deripaska.
Just a dozen years after the collapse of communism, the Russian
capital is home to 33 billionaires, according to Forbes, while New
York has just 31.
According to Paul Khlebnikov, chief editor of Forbes Russia, the
behaviour of Russia's richest people is changing.
"Russia's entering a new stage of capitalism, moving away from the
shadow economy, moving away from a black-market type of mentality,
towards a more civilised, transparent, open form of capitalism."
Anyway, apologies to Kev especially, here is a list I came across on Wikipedia;
List of cities with the most billionaires
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a 2006 list of cities and towns with the most billionaires (in US dollars) according to Forbes:
New York City, USA 45
Los Angeles, USA 23 (Includes Bel-Air and Pacific Palisades districts, and Holmby Hills neighborhood, which are within the city of Los Angeles)
Moscow, Russia 20
London, UK 19
Hong Kong SAR 18 (22 including those with foreign citizenship)
Chicago, USA 13
San Francisco, USA 13
Paris, France 12
Dallas, USA 11
Tokyo, Japan 11
Houston, USA 9
Beverly Hills, USA 8
Fort Worth, USA 8
Hamburg, Germany 8
Mexico City, Mexico 8
Palm Beach, USA 8
Istanbul, Turkey 7
Atherton, USA 6
Boston, USA 6
Sao Paulo, Brazil 6
Toronto, Canada 6
Mumbai, India 5
Omaha, USA 5
Seattle, USA 5
Republic of Singapore 5
Stockholm, Sweden 5
Atlanta, USA 4
Bentonville, USA 4
Denver, USA 4
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 4
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 4
Minneapolis, USA 4
Monaco 4
Montreal, Canada 4
Newport Beach, USA - 4
Oslo, Norway 4
Racine, USA 4
San Antonio, USA 4
San Diego, USA 4
Taipei, Taiwan 4
Washington D.C. 4
Zόrich, Switzerland 4
Bangkok, Thailand - 3
Berlin, Germany 3
Geneva, Switzerland 3
Indianapolis, USA - 3
Madrid, Spain 3
Milan, Italy - 3
Palo Alto, USA 3
Sydney, Australia 3
Tel Aviv, Israel 3
However I did thoroughly research my London ballot, it's actually the cover story in yesterdays Sunday Times Magazine.
The entire article can accessed and read here;
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2469961,00.html
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