When the apartment hunter moves away from the poshest neighborhoods, brokers say, the gap narrows.

Arden-Arcade has some of the more posh neighborhoods in the Sacramento area.

He travels occasionally through the posh neighborhoods of western Berlin, but says he feels out of place there.

"542, it's a posh neighborhood - that's probably someone we know," he said.

It's not exactly in the poshest neighborhood, but who cares?

Folkestone Road was once a fairly posh neighborhood with small tidy hotels and restaurants.

But publishers live in posh neighborhoods and drink champagne every night.

Parking in the dark in a posh, suburban neighborhood like this wasn't a real sound concept, either.

"We're seeing signs for the first time in very posh neighborhoods," said Judy Desidario, a vice president there.

Along with the job, Van Peebles was given an apartment in a posh neighborhood on the lower east side of Manhattan.