Yup, super liberal places like Palo Alto are also the most expensive to live in because of severe building and zoning codes. But then if you’d just paid $3 million for a three bedroom Palo Alto tract house, would you want a five story apartment building filled with low-income families next door?
Exactly.
The new nobility doesn’t want to look at or down on the unwashed masses.
They care about working class and poor Americans - as long as they can feel morally superior to them.