{"id":292577,"date":"2025-10-10T18:17:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/292577\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:17:29","slug":"why-are-private-social-clubs-coming-to-midsize-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/292577\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are private social clubs coming to midsize cities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members-only clubs like Soho House have existed in the United States for a long time, usually in major cities like New York and Los Angeles. More recently though, private social clubs have started opening in midsize cities like Jacksonville, Florida; Lexington, Kentucky; and others, as real estate reporter Kate King <a class=\"externallink\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/private-clubs-are-bringing-a-members-only-experience-to-americas-midsize-cities-91662c59?mod=author_content_page_1_pos_1\">wrote in the Wall Street Journal<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Initiation fees for these clubs can cost five figures and then members pay another few thousand a year in dues. \u201cMarketplace\u201d host Kai Ryssdal spoke with King about her reporting on the trend. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of people who\u2019ve got this money in those cities is expanding,\u201d King said. \u201cIn Jacksonville for example, where a new club will be opening, the number of households earning more than $200,000 annually is up 15% since just 2021.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Use the audio player above to hear their conversation. <\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members-only clubs like Soho House have existed in the United States for a long time, usually in major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":292578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,4051,3188,723,7310,149845,65725,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-292577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-consumer-spending","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-k-shaped-economy","14":"tag-membership-fees","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115351247758143031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}