Why is Beverly Hills so expensive? (Los Angeles, Burbank: apartments, rent, condos)

[txtimo]

I have family that live in BH 90210 zip. There home is amazing. BH is the most exclusive place to live in the US. The weather is perfect, the shopping is fantastic, then you have the restaurants and nightlife of Hollywood just around the corner. It is ritzy and many people live there in cheap homes in BH that are not in the 90210 zip, just to live there. If you are going to live in BH you must live in the 90210 zipcode. It is a must.

[impala666]

It`s all about networking and the social scene, if your husband is a film executive all your friends husbands are similar.
They all want to live close so they can pop in and out of each others houses and borrow cups of sugar.(Well maybe not cups of sugar but I think you get the drift)
It`s also rather nice there and some people just don't like gardening.
If you do have a big garden you also have the money for people to look after it.
The residents are mostly from the media and show business worlds with a few business people who will usually be married or were married into that world.

Because if you are not a part of that scene there is absolutely no reason on earth to live there, given the diversity of alternatives.

[DMenscha]

Thank goodness no one mentioned vanity as a reason to live in this kind of town.

[impala666]

Originally Posted by DMenscha

Thank goodness no one mentioned vanity as a reason to live in this kind of town.

Vanity is not a reason to live in the Hills it is a prerequisite!!

[BRinSM]

i'd like to preface that i don't live in beverly hills, nor know anyone who does. however, from the people i have met or heard of that live there (ie celebrities), BH is filled with old people, persians, the insanely wealthy, or some combination of all three. in my opinion, living in BH is so cliche that it is pretentious, much like wearing a bowtie or using your first name initial in your signature rather than your full first name.

[impala666]

And here I am thinking it was full of porn stars.

[MyKindOfTown]

It's also about city services. I don't know if BH has any more "panache" than Bel-Air or the Palisades but at least it's not in the city limits of Los Angeles.

If your home is broken into see how long it takes LAPD to respond. Compare that lag to how long the Beverly Hills police respond to a criminal complaint.

[RafaelaNeves]

So jealous!

[SOON2BNSURPRISE]

Look at it this way, when James Brooks wrote the movie script for Spanglish he mentioned to his neighbor Adam Sandler that he had a potential role for him to play. He had picked out a few other people from the neighborhood such as Tea Leoni to act in the movie. I prefered Paz Vega the beautifull Spanish Actress although I am sure she was not from Beverlly Hills.

The same thing that may happen in another neighborhood with a differant industry happens in BH because of its proximity to those in the business. If i were building cars in the 1900 I would want to be in Detroit. In the past this was standard procedure. Not so much anymore with the kind of connectivity that we can have now adays. People don't have to live close by to get things done. In the past that was how things were done.

[Twinkle Toes]

A benefit of living in BH is that you are not bombarded with homeless lounging around your area. BHPD moves these people along as soon as they park their cart in BH.