WJM,
You're right about the money thing....
There is a pretty wide gap between the have's and the have not's here. There is a large middle class, but in terms of income, they make less than us. I think they do fine though.
The one's with money however (and there are SO many) do quite well.
Along with Hong Kong, Bev Hills, Ginza Tokyo, and Manhattan, you really are amongst the cosmopolitan world when you're tooling around this joint.....