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Originally Posted by llamaorama
Those are show-off mansions for internationally famous celebrities and billionaire socialites who want to keep the paparazzi and stalkers out.
When it comes to the "normal" rich, I think Mousquet has a point. Going off google street view, it looks like most of Bellevue, outer Long Island, Palo Alto, etc, have houses with open front yards.
Are those areas where the high net worth power broker tech founders and CEO's live? Dunno, but you know anyone would still call those "elite" neighborhoods.
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It's more a question of how much room there is for fences and such. On San Francisco's Outer Broadway--aka "Billionaire's Row"--where the likes of Larry Ellison and the Gettys have homes and the average net worth is probably at least as high as Beverly Hills, the houses are much more exposed just because the lots are smaller city lots. But Mousequet referred to "the outer suburbs of Paris" where there's plenty of land also.
Incidentally, most tech moguls don't live in Palo Alto. That's for the mid-level tech people. The founders/CEOs/major stockholders live in places like Saratoga where you find houses like this:
or this:
Images:
https://www.google.com/search?rls=en...0nTMob3yLZ2PuM
Large lots, often alone on hilltops, and, again, lots of screening greenery.