There are no fawning crowds or legions of press, also fawning, in the compound. There are when he hits the bricks between the Compound and the Marines' gym.
Also he gets to disrupt the Marines' routine, with the Secret Service and all that. It means showing the Marines who the new boss is.
Bleech!
“It’s weird that Obama doesn’t have a treadmill and weights at his 32 million dollar vacation compound. What could possibly lure him every day to the gym at the Marine base ?”
Because there he gets to see a lot of young male hardbodies??? Half nekkid?