This is how jealousy and regular ol' misanthropy manifests itself in the suburban biome
Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
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#32Re: Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
#33> For almost a decade, the Zuckerbergs’ neighbors have been complaining to the city about noisy construction work, the intrusive presence of private security, and the hordes of staffers and business associates causing traffic and taking up street parking. Sounds like a normal day in the city
Do you actually consider this neighborhood in Palo Alto a city?
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My favorite part of that story: He said a security guard approached him and asked what he was doing. “I said, ‘I’m standing on the sidewalk looking at this project for review.’ He said, ‘Well, we’d appreciate it if you could move on,’” Mr. Baltay recalled. “I was pretty shocked by that. It’s a public sidewalk!” Zuckerberg could have built a fancy house in Woodside or Atherton which is where billionaire CEOs live. Ins…
He purchased each plot for between $5 and $15M. The article describes the residents as "Doctors, lawyers, business executives and Stanford University professors". I would not call these "regular people"
OP didn't say "working class people". Doctors and lawyers are plenty regular people.
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This isn't an accurate picture of the Bay Area I just left after residing in for five years. It's almost like you're only familiar with one corner of it.
It is an accurate picture of Boulder though...
"They're all 80 year old ancients" is an "accurate picture" of a place where the median age is 28 and only 3% are actually that old?[1]
[1]https://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US0807850-boulder-c...
Re: Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
My favorite part of that story: He said a security guard approached him and asked what he was doing. “I said, ‘I’m standing on the sidewalk looking at this project for review.’ He said, ‘Well, we’d appreciate it if you could move on,’” Mr. Baltay recalled. “I was pretty shocked by that. It’s a public sidewalk!” Zuckerberg could have built a fancy house in Woodside or Atherton which is where billionaire CEOs live. Ins…
He purchased each plot for between $5 and $15M. The article describes the residents as "Doctors, lawyers, business executives and Stanford University professors". I would not call these "regular people"
Doctors, lawyers, business executives are closer to "regular people" than those people are to billionaires.
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#37My favorite Mark Zuckerberg neighbor anecdote is the guy who is surrounded on 3 sides by all properties Zuckerberg snatched up however has refused multiple offers by Zuckerberg's "people:" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/mark-zuckerberg-palo-a...
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Presumably, when these people bought their homes, they felt they'd be able to live with a relatively continuous sense of community, not feel forced to sell as a billionaire's compound encroached on them.
There's an assumption that these homeowners are getting bought out above market, but what's the market rate for a multi-million dollar home next to the perpetual construction and noise of a billionaire's fife, on a street where an increasing number of homes are being bought out and lay vacant? And why would the property team not negotiate any sale somewhat aggressively?
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#38Re: Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
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It doesn't hurt me personally but the article opens with the sentence "Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge."
Sounds like a lot of the problem was caused by cars, which shouldn't be necessary for a school, ideally.
The kids have to school and back home somehow, and ditto for the employees. Drive by a local school when it ends the day and marvel at the parents in line to collect their children.
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>Zuckerberg could have built a fancy house in Woodside or Atherton which is where billionaire CEOs live. Instead he bought property in the middle of regular people and disrupted their lives. it is easier and safer to have illegal school and other unpermitted things and all the noise and street blocking and all the other disruptions where regular people live than to piss off a billionaire neighbor.
ROFL. The neighbors are not "regular people" for any reasonable definition of that term.
> ROFL. The neighbors are not "regular people" for any reasonable definition of that term.
why do you say that?