California has become less AFFLUENT since the collapse of the dotcom boom in the late 1990's, though its economy remains roughly the same size as the UK's.
(BBC News - Friday, 25 July, 2003)
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affluent
Means generously supplied with money, property, or possessions; prosperous or rich.
Sample sentence:
"All cities have affluent areas where better paid employees prefer to live"