Why is Beverly Hills So Rich and Famous? 

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Haha I forgot that song existed

I can't believe you've done this

The song that this city reminds me of is The Beverly Hillbillies - both the TV show theme and Weird Al’s version.

thanks... now this is stuck in my head :|

This is basically de rigeuer for wealthy areas and transit. Marin County in the SF Bay is a congested nightmare because they opposed BART running up there. Also in my experience growing up in the LA area, that stretch of Santa Monica Blvd. through BH is one of the most congested along it's 10+ mile length.

I was going to mention this in the comments. They sure did try though

@@karl_margsEven the wealthy SF Peninsula does not have BART. They have the separate Caltrain. People in these areas complain about the difficulty of getting people for service work, but many these places are expensive to live in and difficult to get to by public transportation.

I’m not from LA but when I visited I was astounded by how y’all have perfect weather, not much rain, and they can’t even expand that one subway in Hollywood I think it’s the red or purple? In Houston it’s too hot 5 months a year for a lot of outdoor walking but In LA I wouldn’t mind walking to a train, it’s nice out.

The Purple line is being extended right now. Phase one of the extension opens next year.

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So basically Monaco

The crossover I didn't know I needed

Beverly Hills can't hold a candle to Palma del Fuego!

can you explain to all people how can you make $10 per hour in California if the minimum wage is $15.50 per hour? and also most entry-level jobs pay over $16 per hour.

Not just tax fraud either, but also offshore business owners and investors. Money laundering feeds a LOT of those people's wallets.

Well yeah. I'm not from the US (Europe), but it's not unusual that multi-millionaires or billionaires suddenly disappear from the "richest lists" after doing some economic gymnastics. I remember a "formerly rich person" in my city with $0 income who drove a Koenigsegg. Income tells us absolutely zero about a person's wealth. If you want to avoid income tax: Take your salary in the form of company stock. Use the stock as collateral at your bank and lend money from said bank. Congrats. You've got cash. 0% tax as long as you don't sell any stock. Historically the stock you're holding will increase in value making you able to borrow more money. There are many many other ways of doing this, but this is the obvious caveman method.

What about all the live in nanny’s n house staff for a lot of these places . In addition there is a large amount of immigrant labor force present in the city

Yeah incomes are pretty irrelevant for wealthy people living off assets

@@LordManhattanand that’s the method Musk thinks he’s so smart for using (tho I think he sells some of the stock, but capital gains tax is still way lower than income tax so it still works out)

Yeah at least the walls and bushes and parked cars and curves make you drive slowly

I mean, bikers don’t even respect traffic rules, so they get no empathy from me. But Santa Monica Blvd in BH, bike lanes, are pretty safe.

​@@johnnynezha2634 this is a really weird response to that guy's comment about his bike commute

@@johnnynezha2634 why would they "respect traffic rules" when they virtually can't kill or maim anyone? I think you are referring to the "California roll", where people skip a red light when there's no activity. What's so wrong with that?

Real 😂

Agreed! And so cool that the tv show stole the area code in the song as a title!

Omg why was I singing that in my head then I go to comments and yours is first haha. Good old days.

and the worst one at that

That's where I want to be.

Bel Air is the name of the neighborhood it is in. It is actually in the city limits of Los Angeles, not Beverly Hills.

Or communities where absentee fathers are rampant.

@@robloxvids2233When the War on Drugs disproportionately ripped certain families apart, sure. But then, you lobotomised Roblox gamers can’t really any sort of history class

@@carolederent7638 Keep blaming others. That's a winning strategy in life.

Were the later owners Meshulam Riklis and Pia Zadora?

Pia Zadora said it had mold. Apparently the gates are original.

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As someone who lives in between Koreatown and Beverly Hills (and commutes through BH regularly), I have to disagree. I'm not saying that LA a well designed city -- it isn't, but to say that LA is 95% generic, especially *that* area is completely exaggerating. Like, I have no idea how someone can bike through Beverly Hills and not notice they're in Beverly Hills. There's a noticable change vibe: in architecture, from modern and mid-century to early 20th Century and Art Deco, from normal stores to all the bougie ones, hell, there's even a giant sign that tells you you are in the city. And as for the big houses (which I've walked around that neighborhood) most of the houses aren't actually covered by bushes, there's lots of interesting styles to see. And that's not mentioning all the different kinds of places you'll see in just the Wilshrie corridor. There's Ktown (as you mentioned), Fairfax with lots and lots of museums, Westwood and UCLA's collegetown, Sawtelle with tons of Japanese markets and restaurants, and then you reach Santa Monica. And there's lot's of "pockets of walkability" like Larchmont, La Brea, Beverly Dr, Sawtelle, 3rd St, etc. that are full of local businesses, boutiques, classic theaters, and restaurants. Plus in greater LA there's Hollywood, Culver City, the USC area, Baldwin Hills, Crenshaw, Pasadena, the 626 etc. etc. The thing is, they are not connected well: with highways and stroads which famously plague this city. Maybe if you are just pass through these places along the stroads, I can see how everything looks generic, but if you go the road less travelled, you'll see how unique each neighbohood is. The city is *trying* to improve transit though (I hope the subway is built soon so I don't have to get stuck in bus traffic). And besides, there's too many murals here to be *anywhere* in America!

cause he's driving through korea town, it's a getto.@@889884m

that’s a HARSH way to put it. Always pass by here and never thought twice about it. complainer ! lol

bet it sounded good though

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@@gangsterbroccoli Sexiest sounding ticket they’d ever heard… 😎

That’s typical in L.A.

That’s like putting poor or middle class into super rich neighborhood’s thats overall bad idea. Crime,etc.

yes, cause poor people are criminals@@TomFox1

​@@TomFox1that's happening in Gentrified Brooklyn. People living in multi million dollar condos right across from people living in poverty.

@@TomFox1so, single family homes? if we run out of farmland from these homes, do you mind foreign countries providing us food?

Yes. Part of it was also the idea of a piece of ground given over to purely aesthetic use, with no economic (livestock grazing, growing crops and veggies) benefit whatsoever. A different way of 'conspicuous consumption".

it sound like the best summer you had.

Beverly Hills also needs to be forced to build more housing.

@@TheManiple I wholeheartedly agree. I live right outside of BH and it's really easy to see where the dividing line between it and WeHo is, because on WeHo's side there are dense midrise apartment complexes, and on BH's side, there's nothing but bougey overpriced single-family homes on quarter-acre lots. Makes me sick tbh.

That's the parasitic story of most suburbs, exploiting their proximity to cities they contribute nothing to support...

Careful what you wish for. BH would be better off not paying any taxes to LA, and providing for their own needs. The land was cheaper when it was developed 100+ years ago. Nobody should be forced to demolish their private home and build high density housing just because the "free market" says the land value is higher. High property prices does not mean everyone living there has an income high enough to afford the market price.

@@R.-. so then let them build their own utilities within the boundaries of the city. They shouldn’t be receiving help from LA in any way

Here in my town in FL a lot of the wealthiest people are attorneys, politicians, etc… they can be scene in cycling clubs, walking around the fancier neighborhoods, etc. But this is Florida, people live here to be outside.

The wealthiest hood in NYC is Chelsea, not the upper east side. There are plenty of other parts of NYC that are extremely wealthy as well and totally walkable. I don't ask people their incomes but most all of the wealthy parts of Manhattan are extremely walkable, so it is safe to say they do walk there and "pop into shops"

I would guess that there are, but the walkable areas are themselves part of the wealthy enclave - islands inside of islands, as the video says, where you go to do something (shop, probably) rather than a place that's necessarily part of the community (a park, a small business). It is, in a sense, walking and cycling as a social status thing rather than for any inherent purpose.

There's that place on top of the hills in San Francisco that's supposedly the bee's knees, because of the severe building restrictions. Is it Presidio Heights or Pacific Heights? The point is, just because of the restrictions, they can't just tear the houses down and build Mega McMansions there. It's supposedly the most expensive real estate in the US.

Greenwich Village in New York City comes to mind.

There's actually Bel-Air, Brentwood and Pacific Palisades that are adjacent to Beverly hills, richer, neighborhoods of LA and closer to the ocean.

No so, West Hollywood was until mid 80's then it became incorporated, on the other hand Bellaire is in and part of the city of lost angels.

it is in LA,CO that's why they need permission to do thing just like S,PAS, Alhambra, and other city in S. calif.

Yup, Beverly Hills also has its own public school district. insane lol

a lot of city's in LACO had their own schools and police@@Cheezfuz92

Add São Paulo

That's a great idea! Looks like he liked your comment so hopefully he turns that into a video! I think you will find at least 2 major categories that attract large ethnic diverse population: 1. Proximity to another country. Think of Mexicans in the southwest, Florida with many Caribbean & south Americans, and lesser extent Asians in the west coast 2. Jobs. Specific types of jobs that attract international people. Bay Area & NYC are great examples. And once you have a growing population of an ethnic group, it will attract more of that group.

@@bearcb Does Brazil get that many immigrants though? I know that they did in the past but I've heard that now no one wants to move to Brazil. Though it is interesting to me that Brazil has the largest Lebanese and Japanese diaspora populations in the world.

@@carfreeneoliberalgeorgisty5102 Also the largest African population out side of Africa.But you're right, no one wants to move to Brazil anymore, in the past they did but not anymore.

@@carfreeneoliberalgeorgisty5102 you talked about cultural and ethnic diversity, and that São Paulo has plenty of. It doesn't get much immigration from Europe or Japan anymore (mostly business people now), but still atracts people from South America and Africa.

Omg how?

@@asaadlewis328 it was 20 years ago 😁

Beverly hills is a gazillion times nicer

the wet prince of bel-air has used 11.8 billion Gallons of water a year.

Boston has some crazy city borders. Just from a map perspective one would expect that Cambridge and Brookline would have already been annexed. Its also hilarious to me that "Harvard Bridge" connects directly between MIT and Boston. (The road does go to Harvard, but MIT is right there)

Generalizations aren't facts. I've been a resident of BH for almost 30 years and know way more people who conserve and reduce far more than those who don't within my town.

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It reminds me of the movie Slums of Beverly Hills.

Same here! I grew up near Roxbury Park.

What are NIMBY's?

@@NothingOfNoteToSeeHere Stands for Not In My Backyard. It describes people who consider themselves left-leaning but will reject anything related to new infastructure in their neighborhood because it will ruin the character or property value or something like that.

There's no such city as "Newport Coast." That's only the vision of a white developer and general white flight.

corona Del Mar

S. Pasadena has the same even in their tennis park.

Oops, sorry! Good point.

The houses are beautiful and well built, which is very uncommon in most of the US in the west half. The privacy is good, not bad. The access to the rest of the LA area is very good. Great views, great weather. Very high density of high network people to communicate with.

Yes and no. The communities that you describe for the rich (far from the city and huge) exist in the LA area and are even more expensive than BH. For example, the Kardashians live in Calabasas which is an entire mountain range away from anything resembling city life, so much that Kylie Jenner takes 15min private jet rides to get anywhere. But places like that are literally just for living, BH is a rich area that also gives you some accessibility to civilization lol. A good medium between that in LA is thr neighborhood of Bel Air, where the mansions are bigger than BH but you're still adjacent to the city. Downside to there is that BA is not it's own city, so the rich people there are still subject to city of LA laws and can't politics their way into what they want 100% of the time (they are still rich enough to get their way 90% of the time, honestly)

Bar is so low for whom exactly? The people who can't afford to live there?

The lack of "infrastructure" is not a bug, it's a feature. Way they see it, they want to discourage too much population density around to keep the riff raff out. If you can't afford to have a car, then you're shit out of luck lol

The only money that is coming in there is from the Chinese

The infrastructure is quite poor?? Care to elaborate how? Where abouts you were exactly? Especially since north of SM Blvd actually encompasses most of BH

Quick check showed all properties priced in US dollars, some in the seven figures. Seems they cater to ex-pats, and they see the Yankees coming from a mile off. If there are affordable deals, it looks like you will have to do some digging.

@@shelbynamels973 oh no, in Argentina all properties are priced in USD. It’s been like that for a long time because our currency is very unstable and inflation makes it impossible to make big transactions. People save in USD, and properties and land are sold in USD. Construction prices too. Now even rent is beginning to be fixed in USD. We are actually considering adopting the USD as legal tender, it all boils down to whoever wins this October elections. What were you expecting when I said affordable mansions? Haha. They are “cheap” compared to similar properties in more developed places such as Europe or the USA. But they are still on the pricier end, at least compared to a regular house or apartment. And i doubt they cater to Yankees, I’ve never heard of American or European expats going to Mar del Plata. Virtually all of them come to Buenos Aires, and very rarely buy property unless they have some kind of attachment to the country (perhaps an apartment, but 7 figures houses in a beach town with a terrible beach? Haha I don’t think so) While it might sound strange due to our seemingly constant crisis, there’s a lot of people who economically do really well in Argentina. And just like this neighborhood, there are whole towns that cater to the well off Argentinians. Look up houses in Cariló, Pinamar and Costa Esmeralda. They are all beach towns were upper middle and upper class families go on holidays). Try Nordelta in Buenos Aires, it’s a huge gated community where tens of thousands of Argentinians live. La Isla, in Nordelta is specially luxurious. But all of those are the newer more modern developments. The traditional neighborhoods where people with generational wealth live are places such as “Barrio Parque”, “Avenida Melian, Belgrano”, “Barrio Ingles de Caballito”. “La isla de Recoleta”.

@@shelbynamels973 oh and the houses are indeed cheaper than ever, because of the current recession. They were priced much much higher a couple of years ago. But the real state market is rather stagnant because prices are going down and no one wants to sunk that kind of money if they know prices will probably keep going down even more.

@@agme8045 Thanks. I love Zillow--shopping the world.

@@shelbynamels973 no problem. I been there too. Way too many hours spent on zillow looking at way too expensive houses 😂

That's why I would never wanna live anywhere near those streets dividing the sfv and the rest of B.H., W.H., HLYWD, S.M..

@antomano5623 waze and Google maps gave too many people the idea to use even smaller side streets. Turning off my street onto the canyon in the morning is a little crazy. Commuters are more than happy to illegally block intersections so residents can't leave

Yup this is my daily commute. The real nightmare is getting from Ventura Blvd to Beverly Glen/Benedict Canyon

2000ft tall Beverly hill billionaire residential tower when

Monaco is a principality trying to maximize land Beverly Hills is much larger land and car driven culture you can’t compare

Lol, yes he mispronounced it. It's pronounced "Trooz-Dale"

I'll take "obvious for $500 Alex"

all so in the opening credits of the rockford files

Oh but it should, tourism dollars are much and you'd be silly to keep them out, or does your town like making its money off the backs of your poor communities

@@susannpatton2893 I said neighbourhood not entire town/ city.. They absolutely shouldn't. Residential areas are for living, there are other places for attractions

Together they are, though. A co-enclave and the only one I think of.

@@nlpnt yes they are! But don't you think their double enclave status negates them as individual enclaves?

There's significantly more people now so there's more space out in places like Calabasas despite burning down frequently.

Burning down, heh. Yeah, it surprises me because it gets so hot in the summer there. I forgot to mention Montecito. I wonder if that will keep populating. It's a bit out of the way for commuting to the studios, though..

Same