Where Do Billionaires Come from? And Where Are They Now?

Do you have any neighbors who are billionaires? I do not. Wesley Steubenbord created a map called Billionaire Migration, which shows where the world's billionaires were born and where they moved to. We can see that 118 billionaires live in New York City and 70 live in San Francisco. But if you zoom in, you'll find many more living in the suburbs of San Francisco, not so many in the suburbs of the Big Apple. 

You won't find any names on this map, however. I was curious as to which billionaire was born in Treheme, Manitoba. A little digging revealed it's actually Treherne (keming strikes again), and it was the birthplace of Clay Riddell, founder of a petroleum company who died in 2018. It wouldn't be as easy to look up billionaires from, say, Shantou, China, because there are 14 who were born there. Details on the map's data can be found here. -via Nag on the Lake 


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The "migration path" lines generating pop-ups on mouse over makes the map entirely unusable, IMHO. You've got to hide those (which makes the map less useful) THEN you can mouse-over properly, and click around to see individual location info.

Kind of interesting to see individuals who just went from some small town a sort distance to the big city nearby, but the map doesn't show their names, net worth, dates, etc. And of course, plenty of people were born in a location where they didn't didn't spend much time at all before moving, so some/many of these billionaires may have no connection to their birthplace.
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