If you have a bottle of Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1945 in your home’s wine cellar, you might reside in one of the cities atop this list. Movoto.com, a real estate research and brokerage site, recently ranked more than 300 U.S. cities as what they considered the smallest but “snobbiest” locales, based on 2010 U.S. Census Data. Did your small city (45,000 to 65,000 residents) make the Movoto cut? According to Movoto, what counts is having the highest median household income, the highest median home values, the largest percentage of the population with a college degree, and having a good deal of art galleries, private schools and performing arts locales. And oh, the fewest “fast food” restaurants. Perhaps not surprisingly, five of the top 10 are in California. Palo Alto, founded in 1894 by Leland Stanford of Stanford University — and now home to companies like Skype and Tesla TSLA -0.76% — tops the list of 309 cities with the highest median home price ($1 million), the fourth-highest median income and the fourth-highest percentage of residents with a college degree (over 80%). The city scored 61st on the list of fewest fast-food restaurants. Stanford University, of course, is one of the most prestigious private universities in the country, with undergraduate tuition of $42,690 a year and an endowment of more than $17 billion. Among Palo Alto’s 64,000-or-so residents is Stanford alum Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google; past residents include Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who lived in Palo Alto from 1980 until his death in 2011. Palo Alto’s fellow suburbs in the Bay Area of Walnut Creek and Marin County’s San Rafael also make Movoto’s cut, as do Southern California cities Encinitas, just north of San Diego, and Laguna Niguel, near the famed Mission San Juan Capistrano in Orange County. Bethesda, Md., a bedroom community just north of Washington, D.C., in wealthy Montgomery County, clocks in at second on the Movoto list with the third-highest median income and the sixth-highest median home-price. But where Bethesda earns its rank on this list is having the biggest percentage of residents with a college degree (83%) and the fifteenth highest number of elite private schools. Bethesda is also home to some elite government agencies such as the National Institutes of Health , one of the world’s foremost health research institutes, along with the corporate headquarters of hotel chain Marriott. Also on the list is Bethesda’s northern neighbor Rockville, Movoto says, with 61% of its 61,000 residents having a college degree and an average income of over $90,000, as well as Gaithersburg, home to dozens of biotechnology companies. In the Northeast, Hoboken, N.J., and Brookline, Mass., made Movoto’s cut for small-but-snobby cities. Hoboken residents have the ninth highest median income of the 309 cities surveyed, more than $100,000 per household on average, Movoto said, and the seventh-highest percent of residents with a college degree. Brookline is third on the list of residents with a college degree (and third on the list overall) and the home price median clocks in at a hefty $681,900. Brookline also ranks third-highest for having the fewest fast-food chain restaurants. Plus it’s the home of The Country Club. Not a country club, but The Country Club , one of the oldest in the country and one of the five charter clubs that founded the United States Golf Association, which held the first U.S. Open at the club. Definitely ground-zero for old-money Boston bluebloods. Here’s the list of the top 50 small but “snobby” cities. See if yours makes the cut.Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/