'Flexing their power': how America's richest zip code stays exclusive
Atherton, California – home to Silicon Valley heavyweights – isn’t technically a gated community. But its laws create walls of their own
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“Some Atherton residents think their town gets unfairly judged. “You look at the statistics, and it’s easy to make a bunch of assumptions based on the statistics,” said Seabolt, of the Menlo Circus Club.
But after living in town for 25 years, Seabolt has found that a sense of community and generosity also exists here. When his neighbors’ hens got loose, he and another neighbor went door to door to find out who they belonged to. Afterwards, as a thank you, that hens’ owner and her two children baked them chocolate chip cookies. “Last summer, our neighbor’s rabbits got loose, and we were all out there with flashlights, looking for them,” he said.”
Posted on 2020-12-07T06:01:49+0000