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Re:It takes a net worth of millions to be comfortable in Sil... by realbarack on Thursday April 18, 2019 @04:39PM (#19694575)
Beverly Hills has a population of 35,000. It's a neighborhood. Silicon Valley has a population of a few million (depending on how you define it). A luxury city is more absurd than a luxury neighborhood because a city requires people who don't receive luxury salaries to function.
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Re:It takes a net worth of millions to be comfortable in Sil... by arkades on Thursday April 18, 2019 @05:47PM (#19695087)
> a city requires people who don't receive luxury salaries to function.

That is such a key, and overlooked, point. People are so busy imagining themselves in the shoes of one of the luxuriating few that they forget about the entire human ecosystem required to make a city function.

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