I half-joked on Reddit that folks in Atherton or Palo Alto might do it just to troll their neighbors. Not every rich person likes every other rich person; if y

I half-joked on Reddit that folks in Atherton or Palo Alto might do it just to troll their neighbors. Not every rich person likes every other rich person; if you've had a rocky relationship, what better way to get even than to make your uptight neighbors live next to a bunch of ordinary people? You'd have way better liquidity too. It's hard to sell a $15M estate. It's significantly easier to sell a pair of nice duplexes, each on 1/2-acre lots with double ADUs on each. You could probably get more than $15M in total for them too, since 8 units with an Atherton zip would rent for a pretty penny.