They absolutely are. And if you've been there in an earthquake, it is very unnerving. Plus the grass in the summer is tall and very dry. All it takes is one flame and one windy day.
Yes and answer to your question maybe a lot of those people are at work or on a film set Or is could have been filmed during the winter time and it was too coldOr is could have been filmed during the winter time and it was too cold
I live in the Hills. The sweet spot is 1/4 to half way up. Beyond that it's 10 to 15 minutes of narrow roads with tons of switchbacks. Toss in a work truck and that "short" commute is a daily pain in the arse. Stressful. At night, the views are spectacular
All until the heavy rain hits bad while an earthquake takes place. Then the dream is over. The hills come down like some melted chocolate on a cake and the hoses, along with people's lives and money, go down the drain.
MANY years ago I lived at 2020 Barcelona Dr. a small, red roofed A frame visible at 1:39. At the time I had an MGB, and yeah...nothing worse than getting home at 6:00 p.m. after a fifteen minute climb up from Sunset, the car is on the verge of overheating, only to realize that you forgot to get milk or whatever.
Fantastic filming and flying over the Hollywood Hills area. I was just out that way a few months ago…it certainly gives me a different perspective of the area . Nice work
while it certainly is beautiful, even though they are close together, the side of peoples houses no one really uses anyway, so the closeness wouldn't bother me. The front and back of houses is what really counts. But, all the houses hanging over the cliffs, would really worry me. Even if it wasn't earthquake zone, I don't think id like a house overlooking a cliff. Not that what I live in is any better. **sigh** This was a fun video to watch. Like someone else stated, not many solar panels on the roofs, and in all this sun.
When I was younger, I lived in the Hills. First on Primrose Lane, then on Woodrow Wilson Drive (in Tony Danza's old house, so I would get invites to art galleries, etc. in his daughter Amy's name). I preferred my houses. They weren't built up on stilts, and they actually had yards with plenty of space. I never had to worry about earthquakes or mudslides where I was, as we were in the middle section of the hills. Plenty of privacy and quiet. I met my husband (boyfriend at the time), and he was a carpenter. He built a home in the Hills for the man who owned the trademark for the Hard Rock Cafe. It cost $10 million in 1990, and it had no backyard, basically. It sloped so far down, that the only thing my then boyfriend could come up with was a large deck with plenty of seating, and a place for their hot tub that wrapped around the back and side of the house and cantilevered out. A neighbor and I walked through while he was building it, and they had some expensive Brazilian cherry wood cabinets, but when we peeked inside, it looked like particle board. The windows they chose looked cheap. We laughed, because their $10 million dollar mansion couldn't buy them taste. The view is always yellow haze until noon ish, anyway because of smog. Our friend who received royalties from songs he wrote and sang (but were no longer popular), on the other hand, had a beautiful white stucco home that was tucked away in the upper part of the canyon, not on stilts, and he bought it in the 70s before prices became outrageous. Money doesn't guarantee good taste. We are required to have earthquake insurance, as well as mudslide insurance in certain areas. I think both of the houses I grew up in only required earthquake insurance. My father liked to move a lot, and he eventually moved back to Texas. I wisely moved back home, too. It's much cheaper here, and there's no smog. There's no place like home. Those mansions on the edge of a cliff don't look safe, and they don't look very homelike to me. Who needs 16 bathrooms, or wants to walk the equivalent of a football field to see their parent? To each their own, I guess. I am happy in my normal sized ranch where I don't have to send out a search party for my family members, or worry about who might be living unbeknownst to me in the unused wing of my home. That's a nouveau riche thing. Old money doesn't spend wealth on ostentatious things. That's how you lose your money. Anything above 6,000 square feet is a waste. Plus, some of those designs were just downright ugly. I would rather spend my money on collectibles and clothes. Also, stocks and bonds to get more money, which you can then give to charity. St. Jude's Children's Fund always needs money (as do many others).
Never realized that those homes were so jam-packed in there (never seen extended aerial views like this before). Maybe it's also a lot worse now than it was 30 years ago. And what an awful, awful view most of them have. Pretty dystopian.
I lived in the Hollywood Hills and loved it, but at any moment Biblical prophesies get fulfilled at random: mud slides, wild fires, earthquakes, flooding.
Absolute over indulgence , zero architectural value homes 😮 ZERO ARCHITECTURAL EFFORT HERE. CALIFORNIA THE GREEN NON WASTEFUL STATE ABOUT EVERYTHING ….and the homes are the size and design of mini Russian prisons ? Someone is not living what they preach ? 😂
I worked on a crew building a new house in Beverly Hills recently that had piles driven 60’ underground into the bedrock. That house is not going anywhere.
A guy from LA who won a few hundred mil in the lottery earlier this year recently bought a big house there. He was a regular Joe blow, probably wanted to live there his whole life, had a huge chunk of money fall into his lap and gets to live his dream.
Why would you live on a house on a cliff near the Andreas fault line? I'd never sleep easy! (and being in a house on the bottom of the hill wouldn't thrill me either)
Because they're dumb, what hollyweird won't admit, is that there's a mass exodus of "actors and actresses" leaving L.A. for good. So their agents and lawyers could move in to the recently fled wasteland.
Views, location, climate, opportunity, I could honestly go on forever. The Hollywood hills are one of the geographically flawless zones. We have data to predict earthquakes, and almost every luxury updated building in LA is built for earthquakes. Where do you live? Please let us examine what factors your environment consist of to understand why your asking such a question.
Remember free people: These are the people telling you, a middle and lower class person, that you are privileged and need to cut back on meat/gas/water/electricity etc
The whole area is totally overcrowded with more or less beautiful buildings. The streets are very often in a desolate condition, as are the embankments. I wonder what is supposed to be so special here?
Doubtful that they, or at least the newest hoes will crumble even in the most severe seismic event. Why? Good question. Most of these modern hillside homes have very deep caissons anchored to bedrock that supports the homes - 20 to 30 feet deep. Yes, there will be some shaking but the house probably won't fall down the hill with perhaps things inside falling off shelves. Since the hills shake less than say downtown Los Angeles with sits upon a couple of miles of soils, that will shake more. A modern well engineered home in the hills would be most likely the safest place to be. Now, there could always be a landslide from a hillside above. Fire would be my biggest worry and even then most of these homes are built with that in mind.
In a major earthquake the place I would not want to be would be in a 1950's - 1960's midrise on the Wilshire corridor. Why you ask? Good question: Most of those mid century buildings build of poured concrete have insufficient rebar to support the columns during the lateral moment in a major seismic event, unless the building has been retrofitted. Another place to avoid, are soft story apartment buildings better known as "Dingbat" apartments. You can google that if you are not familiar wi th the term. Basically they are apartment buildings usually two floors built on top of parking. The thin column won't support the building in the event of lateral movement.
ABSOLUTELY INSANE. I'm no Geophysicist or Earthquake-educated builder but I have a much better understanding of construction than most people and I COULD NOT believe my eyes!! How in the BLOODY HELL did that construction get approved🤯🤯🤯⁉
Would be so cool if you could add in some descriptions like Laurel Canyon -blue Heights - different key -Kirkwood bowl, Sunset Plaza, etc. roads so you can get a sense of where you are..
Am I the only one who thinks the gianormity of these houses is just ridiculous? No one needs that much space unless they have like 16 kids. It is insane to me how much house ONE person has. Or two. These houses are ridiculously huge and there’s no need for it.
@@gregorytwerkingtonthethi-sr3dv how do you know I can’t ever have a house like that? You don’t know how much house I can afford. I WON’T ever have a house like that because like I said, it’s ridiculous. I won’t ever live in a house bigger than a 3 bedroom. I don’t need more space than that. No matter how rich I am, there are more important things than a mega mansion.
I see an appocolypse just waiting to take place the way these houses are practically on top of one another it’s just crazy, well you see what’s happening on the coast there in some areas where costal irrosion is happening and houses are falling into the water below, one little crack open up and away goes many houses.
Why in the hell would you want too live in such close Quarters, and on a Hill🤔that one day you will wake up and you and your house is sliding down the hill,🤔
That soccer field you see at the very end could very well have been built on the priciest real estate in Los Angeles proper (well, outside of some pockets of Bel Air, at least.)
0:50 , Big house in the center with the 3 huge bays is on the market for $78,000,000 right now. A lot others are for sale too but that one caught my eye.
I saw one drone video over Brentwood a few years back and there was a porn shoot going on, needless to say it was quite weird the things you can see with a drone.
You can have it!! all that money and there all slammed in there like sardines ,on a hill side..would rather have a mansion on some private land with some privacy any day!!
These homes although on large lots are too close together. They are only separated by trees or shrubs. It seems also that the style of the homes is somewhat similar. Very boxed shaped. All it's going to take is one big earthquake and some of these homes are going to fall down the slopes. No thanks. You couldn't give me a home there.
