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You could contact a real estate agent and they will let you in some of those houses for free advertising
True
Meh would take the fun out of the vid
Better if he hits up ProducerMichael on KZhead
At that price point they would want a pre-approved letter
So a free crib?
The hood was more welcoming.
The hood was definitely more welcoming, 😂
The hood will rob you, these people are the ones who get robbed. It isn't surprising and logical in their end to he cautious
The hood has nothing to lose
@@michaelkuznar7396 how can they get robbed? gated communities, cameras, security guards, police..
@Ryan Jachtmann they spend their lives funding the working class. Without these people who produced jobs you'd be living in whatever communist piss hole dystopia you have in mind.
I cleaned homes in Beverly hills, worked for some down to earth people that treated me well.
I live in Florida and I’ve been down the richer part of areas and most of them are like that. Very down to earth. The “rich” folks that like to show off their expensive cars don’t really have that much that I’ve met. If that makes sense
I grew up in LA in an upper middle class situation. I remember being out with my high school boyfriend in the mid 80’s driving through Beverly Hills. It was late at night in the spring and my biggest memory was the scent of flowers. The whole place was quiet and smelled of flowers. Just beautiful.
What was considered upper middle class in LA then? Just curious compared to now. Like yearly household income.
@chexnfx7161 probably Culver City
Sure!!! 🤣🧢🧢🧢
Very true summer 1983...fresh from Milano riding home to the valley....via coldwater cyn. the scent of the air intoxicating!
@@chexnfx7161 Google it🙄
Naming all the celebrities, many of them telling the rest of us how to think and live, it should be called Hypocrites Row.
It is rather rest of people looking up to those celebrities... Because money/high status, fame - and that is people don't realize that fame and luxury life might be oppressive on soul and don't even have authentic human quality to it... it is mostly women that fall to this "fame glow"...
So you feel if people earn success, they lose the right to share their opinions? That would earn one the title of Queen of Hypocrite's Row. That's not telling people how to live. That's stating one's own opinion, which every human being, at every income level, does.
@@betsybabf748 I don't remember haven a podium at work to spout politics while receiving a gold watch for 50 years of employment.
@@betsybabf748 When you live in homes that are double-gated with guards not allowing anyone to enter, it's simply hubris for you to lecture those of us who are living in places that have had looting and violence. There was an older woman on the news crying how she didn't know where or how she was going to get her medications since the drug store was burned down. I care more about that woman's opinion than I do Chrissy Teigen's.
@Investopedia have you ever watched any awards show ever?
I used to drive my old toyota corolla to the beverly hills hotel because I was a make-up artist at the time and it was only valet parking. (I would go there to do make-up for a wedding.) They didn't blink, the guys would take my car just like it was a rolls royce. I used to laugh about it cause my car was not in good shape. Same with Beverly Hills homes, I had a make-up service to go to their house and would park my old beat up car in front and go do my job. folks are just folks... thanks for your killer videos Peter!
Some folks aren't folks all the time
Cheers to the valets' professionalism
It's because you're white
@@alexanderkennedy1801 Racist
I’ve always wondered how service providers can get celebrities and rich folks as private clients. What they have to do to stand out and enter that world.
I live in one of the hoods of LA and definitely don’t feel as comfortable in those expensive neighborhoods, but i’d trade up in a heart beat! the peace and tranquility, no cars flying 90mph down your street, horns blaring, constant shady people walking by and the damn fireworks popping all night! i’d trade it now 😂
I wouldn’t. Middle class is where it’s at. I can’t stand upper class neighborhoods
Both the rich and the poor neighborhoods of LA share one very obvious detail: they’re both designed and operated to keep ppl out. In the rich areas it’s by putting up signs and cameras at every corner and over staffing areas with security, police, and invite only access. While in the poor it’s by the complete lack of a police presence or feeling like the order of law exists what so ever.
@@BostonsF1nest interesting point. I wonder why the poor wants to keep the people out tho? would it be similar reason as the rich? one side has too much to lose, one side has too little to lose...
@@testing6753 it’s not even so much about being rich vs poor even though that obviously plays a huge role. It’s just those inner city, lower class neighborhoods are extremely dangerous. I probably misspoke initially. It’s not that the police don’t exist. It’s just the level of crime is so much higher than anywhere else that it just appears like the police are nonexistent- because the cops on duty are overworked and swarmed with calls every night. You can only police so many areas in a neighborhood if the level of crime far outweighs the man power needed to combat it.
Lived in LA for about 5 years when I was going to college. Used to work as food delivery driver at a Studio City restaurant. Took me to a lot of beautiful homes in Beverly Hills & Bel Air neighborhood. Loved driving around Mulholland Dr, Coldwater Cyn, Beverly Glen, Benedict Cyn.
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my ex lives on Mulholland. I'm back in D.C. now. Sure do miss those drives at midnight through the hills.
Growing up I use to clean houses with my mom in gated communities where we live. People were generally nice except sometimes the grumpy old man of the neighborhood. I learned a lot as a kid.
God bless you.
I can relate except my mom was a nanny not a cleaner but I also went to many rich homes with her in SF
@@streettravelxxi yeah; I did too in Sf with my mom and construction sites with my dad.
@@gillroygarlic3616 yup that’s the real Bay Area story not this yuppie tech shit
They mainly want to make sure people aren't out to steal from them.
“Sometimes things just suck, and you gotta grind through it,” Felt that so deep in my heart
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felt
LA really has both heaven and hell at the same time
When you say you don’t see people in those neighborhoods, there are usually landscapers and people working on remodeling projects. Around noon, you’ll often drive past food trucks up in the hills selling lunches to the workers.
If I lived in Bel air I might be able to afford Cuts clothing.
That’s funny
😂😂😂
Yeah I no shit Them t.z r expensive
@@Amalekkkkk Probs really good quality but cost plus shipping to UK and import tax makes them a no go for me
That was funny to read 😄
I went to UCLA for college and lived around these neighborhoods. I didn't have a lot of experience with LA when I moved there. I was very shocked by the disparity just 5 miles away. You have these super mansions and neighborhoods where houses start at several million. Then 5-6 miles away you have the ghetto where even fast food workers are behind bullet proof glass. That meant that lots of criminals came from those rich neighborhoods to steal cars, home invasions, rob people with guns. LA is very poorly designed and the income disparity causes a lot of fucking problems.
Get off the crack pipe bogey
totally agree so true
If everyone was poor, there wouldn't be so many problems.
@@josephscott6286 found the moron communist
The term ghetto is a misterm for America yet it's a point of pride. In that pride is pure, aside from drugs violence...on that is sheer tenacity. It's applicable now ,yet genocide to then merely skip them into the society oof the genociders isn't exactly the same thing as a place that has the opposite. It's what you see yes. However, it's a mind thing. It's like a system structure in itself of "it's all okay. It's over now. Example seeking equality. Police targeting. Unfair lenders. All things in the media for note. That'sssss a very distrustful state of economics..those economics ya speak on visibly refer too believing the past is irrelevant, the weak fell, now it's okay. Thatssss the history taught by the genociderssss..it's much much much more accurate to their tales than that. They tell it all. So..you see ghetto. Some see ex see from a lens of being a 3rd in line for a crown that get overthrown to live happily in their society. Work, or school work, invest if you want, retire die. The others not caring is not to be a concern..it's the sole person to avoid the insight of great wealth managed in fair honest ways to achieve the rare in life. Did they immigrate? Pro athletes. Yes. Where are they from. The past is the past. The one isn't persuading his captors(neighbors) to not be captors. The one has to wear a happy face or safely leave that nation for unseen journeys.
This video made me think about some of my friends in LA when I was in my 20’s . I had a friend who use to go to Rodeo and spend $700.00 on these dress shirts. He knew all of these celebrities because his dad was an academy award winning actor. After hanging out with him 2 years I noticed that he was a horrible human being. We would go to his moms house and he would complain, about how horrible his life was at the time. His mom would give him about 12 to 25 thousand dollars a month. This was in 1996. The mom was loaded from her dad who owned some medical group. My friend ended up having a cocaine addiction, he had all of these opportunities. It pissed me off because he had all of these people that he called uncle and cousin, who were fucking rich and famous, and they were offering him all of these opportunities to make something out of life and he could care less. I was never jealous of him but mostly frustrated. Because I know people who would have loved to have an apartment in W. Hollywood, nice car, house keeping all day on Friday. ( she would take his clothes to cleaners, fill refrigerators, and after clubbing on Friday night. He always came home to a pristine place. He would’ve been able to get into some of those neighborhoods that you guys couldn’t get into and fast forward to the day. He has a home in Mount Olympus married to some girl and he’s kind of calm down but he’s fucking rich still and he’s kind of a loser. The rich are so privileged! He’s not lucky he’s rich, if he would have been poor. He’d be in prison or most likely dead at this juncture. He has had access to the best things in life which money can buy. He would tell you the only thing you cant buy is true happiness and love. But you can buy a mirage of both.
Probably the kind of person and the dillema these two were talking about at around 17:44.
how do you even meet people like that
It's the same everywhere in the world brother. A lot of rich kids like that here in Toronto.
Most of my friends in BH are this jaded. Lots of good people here as well, we’re not all spoiled brats!
I wonder what Charlie is up to these days.
I spent about a year installing artwork (primarily hanging wall art and photographs) in all of these neighborhoods as well as others in the LA area. Our clientele was very affluent...the kind of people who didn't bat an eye at paying hundreds to thousands of dollars just to have someone hang pictures in their homes and offices. The guy I was working for had been doing this type of work for about 20 years, and he had over 3000 clients on his client list. We provided top-level expertise, did very secure and clean work, and respected our clients' privacy. Although there were celebrities included on that list, the majority were names few would recognize, but who had worked hard and made multiple millions of dollars. With very few exceptions, they were warm, likeable people who welcomed us into their homes like family. (It helped that much of our business was from repeat customers who knew my boss and eventually me as well.) It was fun and enlightening to see the inside of many of the homes and high-end offices that few outsiders get to see.
They probably don't walk around on the sidewalk ,because they do so much walking inside the house
Right.....except I have a feeling most of the walking is done by Hispanic maids and servants. No way those rich people are vacuuming those houses every day.
That is actually true 😂
They have great gyms to exercise on along with swimming pools.
@@melsmithmel we just can't fight with them, they have all the solutions...😂😂
Looks cold through all that sunshine. Cold and fearful. I guess they don't sit on their front porch and yell "hey!" at their neighbors walking down the street
It’s LA not a small American town what do you expect
@@zmc6774 ha ha I grew up in LA. I know what to expect. He asked "what does it feel like" when they were walking around. My statement was in comparison to the way most people live. Why you mad? Don't be mad, it will make you old quicker. peace ✌
@@cheriekreusel9453 I’m not mad dawg
Felt the same
the life they live they don't want to hey with anyone, just get their peace of mind
I lived in weho with my daughter and went trick or treating with my daughter in Beverly Hills, such a strange experience. The first house we went to invited us in and offered us money and talked to us. It was a older woman and daughter. I think a lot of these people live lonely lives filled with material things but lacking in so many other aspects of life. Oh and we ran into some kids from poorer parts of town who came to BH to trick or treat for money 🤣 the secrets out I guess..
Good story. Nice to see Peter can raise his game, with great Sunglasses.
Spoken like a true poor person 😂
takes one to know one@@benhartart9487
I'm 15 min from South Central and 30 min from Beveryhills these are absolutely 2 different worlds the only people you see in these neighoods is the help. I agree with the heaviness in the air which makes it uncomfortable and non inviting and isolated from the real world.
Yeah,I’m 16, I lived in west side of Long Beach and it crazy how they vastly different worlds can be even when it less than a hour drive.
Interesting
@@imcarlosjr4898 Even within Long Beach you'll see the difference in the neighborhoods too.
Your world is real The slap of pregnant low income is the real world But Hard earned capital ain't. YOU SEE THE HELP THE RICH UP EARLY EARNING .I ain't black either 🤣😂😂THE ONLY GHETTO I EVER SAW #WARSAW GHETTO .(this be over your head) Due to 10 mile RADIUS An learning stop once you depart it becomes all "ITS WHITE"so where I live in 10 million haus I'm out of touch with reality Eh eh eh once u pass 24 You must realize the world ain't equal and never will be.RICH PAY TAX it SUBSIDIZE teen pregnancy,and lower caste summer at Disneyland
Those F ghetto are so inviting to non skin tone who dont reside,sure they are,with $1000 absurdity SOMETHING I've notice U never see non walking thru to visit eh friend I FIND IT STRANGE IF MY LIFE ONLY REVOLVE AROUND MY OWN GODDAMN SKIN TONE.love talking about inclusive,IN REALITY YOU ARE THE MOST NON INCLUSIVE. ONLY BLACK & BROWN ALLOWED TO WALK THERE,AIN'T THAT RIGHT missy.the help walk here freely .homeowners not be welcome in your GODDAMN world but here you are with the F air is thick(pathcouli at scaboro fair ain't your liking)pork belly and chicken is summer time in the ghetto
One of my customers lives in Bel Air. I found it funny that when she was writing me a check for some electrical work I did for her I noticed some Power Ball and Mega Million tickets on her kitchen counter!
Probably tryna win another $100m lol
I would tell her, you're rich, pay me in cash.
I've been up there, seen the rich areas and felt the "intrusive", oppressive feeling that you spoke about Peter. Materialism is still the name of the game in that neck of the woods. I can also understand having the ability to buy nice things and live in nice areas whether you're flaunting or not. But what it comes down to is money can buy some happiness but that's really just like a Fad. Things will get old and one will always want more. Be grateful, humble and appreciative as a general practice.
has the rich area bad energy
It doesn`t make sense in one world where some people have so much money, and others have nothing at all. Just unbelievable!
I remember being there many times. I've stayed in a house in the Hollywood Hills at the very top with a magnificent view. I now live a very different life in the Midwest. My looks have faded. My pretentiousness is gone. My vanity is nil. Good memories.
nothing is permanent in this life my friend.
Ageing with grace and wisdom, as you seem to be is true beauty.
Well, how old are you now?
How was the life of a hooker in the old days?
@@jonothandoeser looker*
The people in these neighborhoods are the kind to tell you that you should own nothing and be happy. The champagne socialists. The actors singing "imagine no possessions" ...from their mansions.
Yep and no border wall while they have border walls galore.
@@braveheartrv2946 Exactly. Import the third world into your neighborhood when they could up and leave in a private jet and land anywhere in the world at ta moments notice.
Funny the poor never tell you they have nothing and they are happy but the rich tell you should own nothing and be happy. "Let them eat cake". Just watched Kensington Ave Philladelphia. Very sad. Wake up America. Don't worry you have Biden.
Yeah totally that’s why a lot of them don’t mind paying more in taxes. Y’all are idiots lmao
@@48tilt Not very true. Truly stereotypical to be honest with you haha
It's really cool this guy reached out to you to take you around. He's a cool kid, i wish him much success in life
But you would say that since you have them same ethnicity
@@ageofechochambers9469 not jewish, racist.
@@Arthurian. how is enquiry about your potential biased racist ? Plus how do you know I don't share that guy's ethnicity ? Know your audience toddler, I share the same ethnicity as the guy showing him around you infant .
@@ageofechochambers9469 why did you bring up ethnicity in the first place?
@@ageofechochambers9469 and I highly doubt you have the same ethic background as he does 🙄
what your feeling is dark energy from the kabal "Get out"
You can tell this guy comes from a family of workers that educated him well :) He knows you have to work hard to get things in life instead of just going the easy way. Respect!
He Jewish people many connections
@@mrim3382 He's not jewish, he's persian. Says it in the video
@@farhan022692 persian jew
But the idea that you “have” to work hard to get things in life is inherently bullshit, especially for a lot of the people in this part of LA
That gets respect? Seriously, that should be the least that is expected.
I was born and raised in L.A. and got to live in the poor neighborhoods (City Terrace, Huntington Park, East L.A., South Central) as a kid and the wealthy areas (Westwood) when I was a student at UCLA. Big difference.
Yep
where do u live now
What were the rich kids like at College?
@@TeenGlamBoxx Monterey Park- about 5 miles east of downtown L.A.
@@melsmithmel I don't want to generalize :-)
I lived in LA for a while in the shadow of the Hollywood hills and just a few miles from Beverly Hills. For years I used to drive from my small apartment to an industrial area called South Gate on Alameda Street, essentially across the street from Watts and some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the US. To give you an example of how bad Watts and Compton used to be (maybe still are), if you went to a fast food drive-thru, the drive-thru window was this bullet proof contraption. I traversed all these different worlds for years. I'd go from the South Central reality to knowing this girl who was a friend of my room mate. She was dating a billionaire who lived in a mansion behind the Beverly Hills Hotel. This guy was so loaded that one day she joked about someone buying a Rolls Royce Phantom so the next day he buys one. He had her face painted on the back side wall of the Lowe's Hotel (behind the Chinese Theater) and I'll never forget seeing that for the first time. This girl who would hang out in my place, the mural had to be at least 250' high. Who am I in all of this strangeness? A total zero. An unknown, a nobody gives a shit and yet, I'm on the sidelines watching all of these different people enter and exit my life. I'm seeing how a person could live their entire life in LA and not see any other side than what they see. It's this strange mirror that reflects back only what you want to see. It's hard to explain but I felt like I had the unique qualities to somehow "forest gump" myself into these situations. I used to say that LA is one of the few places where you could see a homeless man defecating across the street from a Ferrari Enzo. To a lot of people LA is a concept, a place they've heard of or seen but it's truly one of the more complex places in the world. There are so many parallel universes going on at the exact same time in LA, the density of it can be overwhelming. I'm not even talking about one neighborhood to the next like we're seeing here. I'm talking that within the same neighborhood there are literally places that are completely "need to know" and it's not always elitist. I'll give you an example: On the corner of Sunset and Cherokee across the street from a typical LA strip mall (with a big sign containing like 10 smaller storefront signs) is this large black brick building with no windows on the outside. It looks drab, concrete and ugly yet on the inside of those walls are a place where some of the most amazing, most beautiful, most influential music was recorded. I'm talking every Doors album, I'm talking Led Zeppelin, I'm talking The Beatles, Prince, TOTO, Elton John, Thriller -- It would be harder to find a famous artist who hasn't worked there. I guarantee you there are people who have walked or driven passed that building their entire lives that had no idea that was ground zero. They saw what they wanted to see, not what was actually there. Little heavens, little hells often behind gates and trying not to draw too much attention to themselves. The holy grail safely hidden in an unmarked alleyway between a Burger King and an Adult Costume Store. That's LA. LA can be beautiful but it's the ugly that I find most interesting. Remember, all those beautiful houses on the hills overlook all the ugly, all the interesting. Neighborhoods like look like hell are where you can find the best mole (a Mexican dish with a heavy complex brown sauce usually involving cacao) in the city, next to an auto garage with a razor wire fence. Pretense everywhere, pageantry everywhere, people trying to find meaning but like water that's too cold, afraid to just jump in. Doesn't matter if you're on Hooper Street or Summit Drive, everything is behind bars. Everything is gated. Everything segmented like the signs in the strip malls. Little worlds inside a greater space inside a greater space and so on. If you've ever had the opportunity to traverse that rats maze even to the little extent I have, from Watts to Westwood, you'd see LA as a much more fascinating place. It's not just about disparity, it's about the idea that we're agreeing to the disparity, it's about the idea that we're all in these little worlds we've created for ourselves believing in some truth that perhaps isn't as true as we thought it was. LA resembles the truth in the lie. I don't live there anymore but it will forever have a place in my heart for whatever it all meant.
i agree with you completely, i have lived here my entire life and there is such a complexity to it
South Gate is east of Alameda, it’s not an industrial city, you’re thinking of Vernon
@@joeso2727 If you want to get into semantics it was more of an industrial section of South Gate, not a "city." It was a bunch of warehouses between Tweedy and MLK but I know where I worked. I drove through Vernon to get there sometimes but I never worked in Vernon.
Seriously Dude, You need to write a book. Your words are mesmerizing and I don't even care about LA till now.
It's not molé. The stress is on the O. Mole...no accent.
Great video. I have spent time in some of these areas. The one thing that I can say is that in South Central and East LA which you have done videos, the areas are much more vibrant and lively. There is a strong sense of brotherhood and community that isn't based on material goods. You don't see that in the exclusive neighborhoods. Their sense of community comes from church, youth activities etc... There is no wrong or right but I prefer the vibrancy of regular neighborhoods.
love how the kid with hoodie got embarrassed that he wasn't wearing a kipah and sheepishly pulled up his hood!
This is the 1st time Peter was not welcomed in a neighborhood. What a disrespect to the Legend Peter.
What did you aspect? Tom Cruise serving him a coke? He could even enter the neighbourhood where they live.
@@JoostEurovisionFans Maybe, then Scientology, most people would have a really bad trip, unless they're ALL IN! choo choo, hype train for the cult!
Thats what thought to 💭
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@Peter Santanello Thanks for sharing the neighboorhoods of L.A. even we did not see so much due to limited visibility of high fences. I found the young tour guide showing you all the places very impressive. 😊 He seemed very mature for his age of nineteen years. I hope he has graduaded from the Community College with an associate degree meanwhile and continues his studies and is going for an MBA or a doctorate. I believe he will have a successful career. 🎉 Wishing him and you, Peter, contnued success. 🍀 Best wishes from Germany.
That's why i love LA, the motivation that gives me every time i drive around!
Josh seems like a beast guide, you should do more videos with him
He aint no good guide ... he said "french prince of bellaire" .....really ?
such a great person! 100%
@@motterwelon9500 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
lolit was boring to be guided from a 19 yr old...get 30s guys who has seen it all
yeah…. yeah
Josh was very well mannered young man
I felt the exact same in Bel Air when I randomly did a neighborhood drive through: Intimidated, Inspired and something opressive about it.
Another great video with perspective! Great work Peter!
6:56 that literally looks exactly like GTA 5..Insane
Looks like Franklin's street
Yeah dude gta 5 is basically a carbon copy of LA
@@Dreww31786 yea I know, it’s just uncanny I’ve never seen that kind of house outside of a game. Where it’s looks half as big on the hill like that
Drove around Bel Air a few days ago and definitely felt the energy shift in the neighborhood. It was almost spiritual... But I understand that most of the people who 'live' in these homes are under public scrutiny or work in very demanding public fields, thus why the houses are built almost fortress like to reserve the little privacy they have. Great video!
Great point! We are so judgemental of the rich especially celebrities..look what's happening to Britney Spears. So sad.
@@melsmithmel what? Britney spears is currently being helped by her fan base. Her father is trying to cut her off from us ‘common’ people. I understand your point, but britney’s father is the bad guy. Not her fans.
I would say it's DEFINITELY a spiritual shift. City of (fallen) Angels.
@@smurfylee very interesting that you believe it is a spiritual shift.
Spiritual like demonic energy??
I like the honest commentary coming from you guys. Some people would not be able to pick up on what you’re picking up on. I really enjoy it. Also, you would’ve love the vintage Belair. It was gorgeous in the 60s and 70s the beautiful homes like Pickfair. And the Harvey Mudd estate a friend of mine, grew up in that home and went to church with me.
I get that same heavy feeling everytime im in Newport beach, beverly, calabasas etc. its a overwhelming amount of wealth
While watching this from my humble abode in Maine, I feel so blessed. Another excellent Video Pete P !
Maine gangggg
You are in a trailer park in Maine due to your own choices.
@@drooshmaroosh8261 wow. That escalated quickly
@@Peter-wd2ho It was merely supposed to be motivational to get her out of that crack house in Maine and into better circumstances.
Watching from my humble abode in Nairobi.
“Exploring LA’s 20 Feet Tall Privacy Hedges” (with a random guy named Josh)
😂
I saw some nice gates
i used to pick up and walk dogs in these neighborhoods. recognized a bunch of these houses.. it's truly a different world they live in
I live in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Lincoln Heights and work near this area. The difference between the two is completely different. The feel of the hills though is definitely “off” Something about it is very unsettling
I spent my whole life in LA, left last year to move to Dallas so these videos bring back memories for me. I hung out both in the hood and West LA. Josh seems like such a nice, good guy. I don't miss living in LA/SoCal but I do miss the weather. I love your videos Peter. You have such a great personality as well. Easy going, not bias and just showing us the real world. Keep doing what you do!
Why did you move, queen?
How you liking Dallas?
A lot of Californians are moving to Texas.
Go to dallas and voting DEMOCRATS🤦
@@theradioramires I'm a Republican so I'm not moving to Texas to turn it blue. FYI.
I used to work for interior designers in the 80's and 90's in L.A. and spent a lot of time going into these neighborhoods and working in homes like these. There are definitely some really interesting structures architecturally and historically, but I found the environment nauseating. I met a lot of super rich people who were completely miserable or paranoid. Or both. Money definitely does not buy you happiness and life is short.
keep telling yourself that -
@@sterlingmarshel6299 Agreed, not to mention all the many poor completely miserable and paranoid people around. I am sure they would prefer to be super rich even if still miserable and paranoid.
Interior design is my dream job ❤
I've come to the conclusion that, even in California, houses that cost much more than $4-$5 million dollars are mostly sterile and unlivable. They look more like fancy office buildings or event locations. I see so many amazing homes near the ocean that are like $3-$4 million and have character that I would be 100% happy in. Adding a few thousand extra square feet and hiding behind massive gates where nobody knows their neighbors doesn't make these home better for most people.
Their only purpose is to be rented for a day for fancy porn shooting.
" Adding a few thousand extra square feet and hiding behind massive gates where nobody knows their neighbors doesn't make these home better for most people." I think this says more about the mental state of the people that buy these kinds of homes than anything else. They probably feel very unsafe and violated so they retreat to their fortresses where they don't have to deal with us peasants.
I agree those houses 🏘️ are too big. Who is going to clean 🚰 them? Imagine trying to dust the place? And who is going to go into all those rooms? How can you pay the taxes, water 💦 bill and water the lawn 🌿 even? I think 🤔 when you get older you are practical and not want to live in such a giant place.
@You are correct But Me too. It's too big. Plus it would be scary by yourself to live there alone.
Also the upkeep of these huge homes employing staff etc. It’s like you are running an empty hotel that only you live in.
At the end of the game the pawn and the king go inside the same box !! 😉God bless !!
Cope
Great video. Born and raised in LA and I didn't get a real close look at just how different things are until a few years ago because of a job. You think you know bit you really don't until you actually go to these places. I met some really awesome people in these places but they definitely have a clouded hazy view of the the rest of LA and what's going on
Imagine if you were a middle class person trying to buy a home, you put in an offer, and there are 50 offers with 20 of them being all cash offers from wealthy foreign people. That’s what people don’t realize about the housing difficulty in LA. Not so much in these mansion neighborhoods but in normal neighborhoods. It drives prices up and is definitely connected to the homelessness problem. Wealthy power brokers don’t mind it because they just see money being pumped into the metro. CA’s immigration problem isn’t migrant farm workers, it’s international investors and making an already competitive housing market even less affordable to first time home buyers. It’s the entire state, not just LA and SF bay.
Yup! I’m in the most northern part of California and this has been the issue the past couple of years!
it should be illegal for a foreigner to buy property in the USA with the problems we have going on at home!!!! American born should be priority just like other countries do! see if Americans can go there buy up all the properties!
This not just LA problem here in Toronto homes average over a million dollars. Sad.
If you have to put in an offer to buy the house, you can't afford it. You need to have the money in full so it can be sold the second you walk in the door. That's how you get a house. Also never consider a house with a realtor that has an "offer system" in play. It's the same as eBay sellers that put reserve prices on a listing. They want to get more money from a house they bought from the bank for dirt cheap, so they will deny anyone except the top tier. I live in Wisconsin of a city of 30,000 people and there are many houses around you can buy for $10,000-$15,000. 2 story houses ready to go. They sit on the market 8-17 months with no takers.
@@MrWolfSnack WTF are you talking about? Half of the offers in the most competitive cities are cash offers 20% above asking price. Not everybody lives in small town Wisc and this video is about LA, a highly competitive and heated housing market where you're competing with all cash offers from around the globe. The agents would be morons if they took the first all cash offer when they are getting 20 all cash offers over asking price on a typical Bay area or socal home.
I drive around there once in awhile it makes me not wanna come back to my own neighborhood lol
Lol
here's the thing though, whether rich or poor, this type of neighborhood from what I've seen in the video isn't really a "neighborhood" as much as it is an endless expanse of houses connected by roads. You guys may see this as the norm, but what if you just want to walk out of your house and buy some bread or milk or whatnot? Can you walk for 5 minutes to get it? Or even ride a bike - would that seem "weird" to everyone else? Let's say you have a headache - where's the pharmacy within 10 minutes walking distance? If a house is worth 500 mil but you need a car to go literally anywhere, is that really somewhere one would want to live?
@@yuriythebest Most neighborhoods in socal are like this. I have no clue where you're from, but almost all suburbs in southern California do not have any stores or pharmacies within walking distance. That's not a rich neighborhood thing. The only difference I see is there are no sidewalks, no kids playing outside, and I am assuming none of the neighbors greet each other because there is so many walls.
I use to do it all the time when I lived in Hollywood
@@fighter91 yes, that's why I mentioned "whether rich or poor neighborhood"
What’s so incongruous in those neighborhoods is how high end the houses are yet they’re plunked right on the sidewalk with no frontage or privacy.
You are doing such a great job peter👍
My early days as an architect while earning enough for a Volkswagen Beetle took me through many of these beautiful neighborhoods and often involved having to explain my presence to the security or parking people. Don’t think ordinary humans ever got to see beyond the gates and very high fences of these homes. But they’re occupied by ordinary people who are just a lot wealthier than you and me.
"You know, the rich are different from you and me." - F. Scott Fitzgerald "Yes. They've got more money." - Ernest Hemmingway
I think unless the security recognises you, everyone regardless of income will be instigated with also regardless of what one drives.
@@h0lynut yea their job is to be security after all especially when dealing wit a lot of wealth
That's what security is for! It's a gated community. Otherwise, what is the point of having security? People pay a premium to live in a gated community.
lots or regular people enter those homes. Each one is maintained by at least a handful of tradesmen
The same people who don’t want a border fence will construct a huge one with armed security around their home 🤷🏻♂️
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They want cheap labor for their home gardening , maid and cleaning services. They can't afford to pay American wages.
Not really. If your talking about Iranian Jews many of them are more Republicans.
Blows my mind how there are no sidewalks. I live in a quite affluent neighboorhood near Paris, and people love to jog or walk their dogs or whatever. How do people stay healthy driving everywhere ?
Woe! Ty for this; it was fun.
Best part of the video is Josh and learning a little about the Persian Jewish community, who knew?! Maybe that should be your next exploration Pete. For me, beautiful houses are not interesting, people are.
I found that interesting as well. Persians are awesome people as a whole, his iranian videos are good
I appreciate both specially the different ways a house can be built. Theres something beautiful about the arquitecture in general.
Beverly Hills is also known as Tehrangeles, due to the large Persian community living there. Not just Jews but many Muslims as well.
@cometestify Secular people are secular, muslims are muslims.
probably because youre broke
You cant take what you see of L.A in movies or shows seriously. It's a very small part of L.A that's how big and diverse it is. Being born and raised here 39 years I still find gems I have never seen before.
There's so much in LA you will never visit all of it.
@NICK GRRR how about Nazi Europe your fkn parents should have never left and died there defending their country !
It's definitely not a small part the rich part is huge too
Good to know, but I haven't ever been to the US let alone LA, guess never will, so movies and videos like this are the only way to get some impression of it. "Falling Down" did a good job introducing all the vastly different environments that coexist next to each other, and also the sometimes tangible tension.
@@LegalShield3000facts bro 😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you Peter for taking me to LA I feel motivated I love 🇺🇸
I worked these areas and other high scale areas as an inhome technician, but I’ve also worked in south and east LA and and other areas and it’s insane to see the difference in wealth in the same city. Going to a mansion in West Hollywood with people who have so much money that all they do is drink wine all day, then right after going to Vernon to an old house that’s falling apart and trying to get out of there before it gets dark, it’s an eye opening experience to me.
It should be to anyone. We live in a crazy world on this planet. Life is strange.
The rich can protect their “area” with walls and intimidating signs, but the common man cannot. These are the same celebrities that go on the grammies and preach about boarders LMFAO
theyre allways going to have more power in political views than the common man, because at the end of the day their tax adds up to thousand of peoples yearly income. money talks
@@das_not_auto1970 Doesn’t mean you have to look up to these people or care about their political opinions….many of them think their opinions are as grand as their wallets…totally disassociated from the real world. Best thing we can do is teach our kids to not look to celebrities and athletes as role models.
@@ashdav9980 well said
@@das_not_auto1970 you think rich people pay taxes? LOL
I doubt any lefties preach for borders 😂
Man I was actually disappointed the video was coming to an end. Peter it's so easy to watch you man seriously I really enjoy your videos and especially your narrations
LA weather always looks stunning!!!
What a amazing humbled guy! Down to earth and realistic. I love him
Did you notice they have their help park on the streets? when my nephew first moved to La, he delivered for Domino's . Said people in BH were very cheap on tipping :). He now lives in Beverly Woods. No more domino's for him.
I've heard that Uber/Lyft drivers all hate hate HATE driving into the Hollywood Hills. You have to drive 15 minutes out of the way through windy, narrow roads to pick up some kid who thinks he's too important to tip you.
@@DeflatingAtheism ha I hate driving in the Hollywood hills too!
Peter, come to the Hamptons! Similar vibe. I'll show you around.
Im from LA and used to work food delivery. Every time I was in Bel-Air, Padific Palisades etc…. always felt like I was in another world. Gates, security and have to explain to security why I am there etc lol … most of them didn’t tip well though 🤣🤣. Still loved those routes. Killer views
I enjoyed the conversation between Peter and the driver, and very interesting and insightful video. I want to visit LA and those neighborhoods myself one day to experience those views myself. But this video was the next best thing until that time comes!
Rich living in "Gated" communities/houses is almost universal around the world. its almost like you can be RICH but not free of fear in true sense..
Yeah, more money doesn't always mean more freedom.
Criminals walk alone to steal.i walk 3 am #SHAUGHNESSY,NOT GATED,IT AIN'T AMERICA IF WAS,WANT ALL SECURITY
So true, regardless of how we have heard on news how a country economics is struggling or political unrest, those communities are world wide!!
Australia is the same. Housing is so unaffordable for many especially in Sydney.
@@melsmithmel I live in Australia too, though real estate in Brisbane in particular is becoming more expensive to live/rent in because interstate people are moving up here because of work or even wanting a change of lifestyle etc. I still live with my parents but a median priced house in my area/suburb is like $700'000-$800'000 AUD.
I've been to Belair for the first and the last time as the owner of my previous company lives there. They decided to just host a summer party at his home, rather than the promised beach summer getaway for the company employees. It was awesome, we had a tour of their home. Home was made to last even the strongest earthquake, has some swing mechanics, so the whole house would just swing together with the quake, etc. We also had an expensive hotel-like service and buffet on top of expensive wines and spirits. Real nice!
how did you know its gonna withstand "The Big One"? hahaha
Thanks Peter for a pretty comprehensive video:)nice vibes
Go until No - my new favorite motto. I will apply this in my life.
Cool dude young Josh...hope he reaches all his goals
The type of people that want open borders also live in gated communities
It’s hilarious that you guys think these people care anything about politics LOL
same white liberals telling blacks in the hood to defund the police. defund Beverly hills police department first dipshits
and the type of people who want closed borders support u.s war crimes
@@howdareu964 you’re thinking of Portland hipster dyed hair non binary 18yr olds that took their first college class and are woke.. not rich Persian Jewish people. I worked along side them for half a decade they don’t care for politics lmao.. how else do you think they’re so wealthy 🤣 the American dream and hard work? LMAO.
@@misanthropyunhinged having a controlled boarder is for everyone's benefit. Especially those at risk from abuse by the traffickers and kidnappers.
They can have it all for me. I`m happy having a job, appartment and my family. Nothing can replace that in a fancy house or lot of money.
From working in retail many years to the ABA field with kiddos with disabilities to getting into the real estate game…I am definitely hungry to grow and enjoy these beauties much more then I currently am. I also am looking forward to creating good for people with disabilities. Great Content. Embrace the Suck…Sucks…but it’s much needed to strive and grow. Once again, awesome content. Thank You Peter!
Only I have this weird feeling that everything there looks so sad? Only walls, roads, empty spaces, cameras, gates but there is not much people interactions there. Really not sure that I want to live there.
Kind of a metaphor for the people in that neighborhood..
exactly! at least there should be people roaming around, so a vibe can be generated..
Bel Air and Alta Beverly Hills aren't really "neighborhoods", per se, they're just places where houses are. When everyone's house in surrounded by hedges and gates, nobody's going next door to ask for a cup of sugar. Most of the time, there aren't even sidewalks.
Notice that there isn't any sidewalks there. Because walking is for poor people.
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Lol, that’s why American cities suck. Here in European cities we admire of architectural beauty, observe decorative details while simply walking in old good streets. American cities make you wanna get in car as fast as you can to move from point A to point B
I used to get stopped by police for walking in that area.
@@lollolich2399 Exactly and why the French are not obese..they walk every-where.
@@lollolich2399 Not all American cities are like that. On the East coast there are a lot of cities that are pedestrian friendly such as NYC, Boston, Jersey City, and Philadelphia.
Great video Peter! Thanks for all the LA area videos. Come a bit east to the San Gabriel Valley - Pasadena, San Marino and the incredible Bradbury… SGV has incredible variety of ethnic food - especially Boba Tea! Keep up the good work! 😃
The last house that was being built , I polished the floors in! Crazy to see it on your video
Peter, you are just the most ultimate people person. Keep doing what you are doing!
Peter, I can’t say enough about your videos. Its like a Netflix series to me. They are so well done and you do a wonderful job of showing the “real” side of life in these cities. You get a real perspective of it unlike a documentary.
hey, european here ;) Watching thise walk I wonder why there are no sidewalks? They had to walk on the road between cars. Any US citizen can explain? Thank you
@@stefanj11 I studied geography at the University of Arizona before I went to law schol so I think I can answer. Starting in the 1950's America built auto age cities. Fuel was [and still is] cheap compared to the rest of the world and everyone owns a car. Prior to 1960 the big auto and tire companies bought up small trolley and light rail lines across the country and shut them down. New houses were built larger, with on-site parking and streets were built without sidewalks. Freeways were built that make it possible for people to work many miles from where they live. Suburbs were planned with strictly defined residential areas and business districts. Almost no new public transportation was built. As the country has become more prosperous auto ownership has become universal and walking to get somewhere has come to be considered low-class. Things have begun to change in recent years as people more and more want to live near the places they work and shop but, unfortunately, these auto age cities are still the norm across America.
@@chrisackerley1842 Thank you very much for those insights. I didnt know the background of American road infrustructure, but now it makes sense for me. Thank you for you time you spend on writing this great comment. Greetings from Poland! :)
It’s amazing how so many people that claim walls are evil and don’t support them, live behind them…
Dude I just recently found your channel but one thing I appreciate about your channel is something I have a gift with as well I just haven’t managed to use it as well as you have and that’s the ability to make a solid friendship real quick with cool people like this young kid. I’m 28 myself but you and him seemed like you were good friends for a few years in this video and that’s awesome and my family always admires my ability to do the same with people and there’s so many KZheadrs who do stuff like you who create fake friendships real fast and it’s gross to watch. But you’re an expert and I appreciate it brother keep doing what you do! Another thing that’s really cool about you is you even stated it in one of your videos and you never ask people to like and subscribe Because you said you feel like they would do that already if they were interested in it. You have so many KZheadrs out here faking it to make such a good vibe just so they can earn a subscription and they like but you seem like you’re well off financially without tube so that probably has a huge part to do with it considering a lot of these kids are dependent on every dollar from KZhead.
No rich person should ever say they understand the struggles or the poor or "we're all in this together."
To be honest they are some who came from the bottom and just worked really hard including celebrities. Not all are born with a silver spoon. I know of many wealthy people who give back some way.
Lot of them started dirt poor. Especially the people who immigrated from Iran
@@alkoma4586 No those Iranian in Beverly Hills were rich even when they came in 1979, and bought most of those houses by cash. It was all over news in the states. Majority of them are the Jews who were business men back home. Of course they had lost many properties and assets in Iran when the MULAS came.
Tehrangeles 🤩
what a life, imagine waking up in 5am and looking outside to see your perfect house and clean streets with the sea...
Grind hard
@@alexanderstyrlander7991 i can't, i had a bad spwan here in Morocco, all i can do is wait for death
@@digitalhouse6969 Theres people from your hometown and probably close to your age WHO are successfull… Find them and cooy
Amazing videos, I feel like traveling myself, thank you Peter, cheers from Chile.
One of the best channels on KZhead. Show's so many cultures. Guy has a gift too, a great personality and talks so easily to people. Something I lack
I enjoyed this vlog. Just driving around seeing all the houses. Josh is such a nice friendly person.
Great tour of some beautiful gates!
Keep up the amazing work u do homie😎🤝👊👏👍
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I do Uber and I drive through these neighborhoods almost everyday to pick up people ...and these are the only ones they don't tip
Tell me about it !! I bring them their uber eats and postmates orders and I feel like I make more when I deliver in west Hollywood or Culver city .
Thank You for your Good Work
Just stumbled across your channel and really enjoying your videos. This one in particular... just makes me think about all of us out there working hard and still have financial burdens and stresses that some of those people will never understand or even fathom, and it's hard for me to even wrap my brain around that.