I am NOT questioning the right, or, perhaps, even the desirability of increasing home prices, just observing that the character of the town has been transformed

2017: 1,680 sq.ft., $1.325 million

2024: 4,866 sq. ft., $3.795 million.

19 Mallard Drive is new to the market today, priced at $3.795, and the sellers will probably get something close to that. Greenwich hasn’t comprised a mixture of homes in middle-to-high prices, but we’ve now moved from a town of rich people, to a population of the uber-rich. The days of, say, the Chairman of the Dime Savings Bank living directly across Riverside Avenue from the local drunk who, when reasonably sober, fixed screens and storm windows are long gone. Of course, gone, too is the Dime Savings Bank, so there you have it.

I personally enjoyed attending Riverside School with a peer group that included the children of major corporations as well as the scions of the Greenwich sewer inspector and the guy who emptied parking meters for the town; now, the demographic is all children of multi-millionaires, r soon will be.

For what that’s worth.