stockbroker belt

stockbroker belt
n [usu sing] (BrE)
an area outside a city, where rich people live in large expensive houses. Many of them work in the city as highly paid professional people, e.g. stockbrokers (= people who buy and sell shares in companies on behalf of other people). Most people think of the typical stockbroker belt as Surrey, south-west of London, but the phrase can be used to refer to any expensive area outside a city:

They bought a large detached house in the heart of the stockbroker belt.

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