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The US holds few wealthier quarters than the small towns of Long Island's South Fork , where huge mansions lurk among the trees or stand boldly on the flats behind the dunes. Nowhere is consumption as deliberately conspicuous as in the Hamptons - among the oldest communities in the state, settled by restless New Englanders in the mid-1650s, but relatively isolated until the rich began to turn up in their motor cars. The current generation of high rollers clog the roads in Range Rovers and Mercedes, and the sidewalks in slow, sauntering processions; pretty as the Hamptons are, avoid them if you are at all antisocial. Nightlife venues are expensive and notoriously changeable; pick up Dan's Papers or the East Hampton Star to find out what's happening.

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