There is a sort of philosophical retribution here. For decades, they prevented new housing construction in an extremely expensive and desirable city, watching their housing values go up. Eventually the values went so high that a billionaire came in, bought the houses, and are now performing 8 year basement construction projects to make them more conducive to billionaire living.
Surprised this article didn't mention his antics in Hawaii, where he tried using lawsuits to secure all of the parcels in his 700-acre Kauai property from native Hawaiians. (He dropped the lawsuits after the optics became terrible, but he's still reviled there.)
There’s a dead comment asking why he doesn’t live where the other billionaires live.
This seems like a fair question. Atherton for example just already has lots large enough to build a compound without doing anything weird. It’s not like he needs to be walking distance to things, it seems like he doesn’t just go out in public these days, does he? It is kind of odd.
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This seems like a fair question. Atherton for example just already has lots large enough to build a compound without doing anything weird. It’s not like he needs to be walking distance to things, it seems like he doesn’t just go out in public these days, does he? It is kind of odd.