“Pacific Palisades was the perhaps the most idyllic example of the American dream.”
A good friend of my grew up in PP and loved her life there. Her father was dentist. I was borderline envious of her because it sounded like she had lived in a ‘50s TV family.
Yes, I too spent my early years in So Cal and had many friends from the area. Much is being made of celebrities’ losses, but most of these were very old, well-established middle-class neighborhoods.