Out in the hinterlands of the AV, a goodly portion of the lots are owned by overseas businessmen, mostly Japanese we think. My neighbor told me he tried to find out some of their names once, and it was so convoluted he gave up. He thinks many of them were sold on "it's only 70 miles north of Los Angeles!" and they'd never actually seen what they were buying. Who knows what they paid for them.
I can’t really rest easy until I know what Sir Al Bore thinks of all of this.