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Beverly Hills, CA
Beverly Hills incorporated as its own independent city in 1914 specifically so residents could avoid being annexed into the rapidly growing city of Los Angeles surrounding it, a decision that's let the small city — just under 6 square miles — maintain its own separate police and fire departments, school district, and municipal government for well over a century since. Rodeo Drive, the city's three-block luxury shopping street, has become one of the most internationally recognized retail addresses in the world, lined with flagship stores for nearly every major global luxury fashion house and drawing visitors specifically to window-shop or shop the strip regardless of whether they have any other reason to visit Los Angeles. The city's residential streets, particularly north of Sunset Boulevard in the area known as the Beverly Hills flats and the hillside neighborhoods above it, have housed generations of entertainment-industry stars and executives, and the zip code 90210 became so culturally loaded that it was used directly as the title of a nationally broadcast television drama in the 1990s. Beverly Hills's combination of over a century of genuine municipal independence from Los Angeles, one of the most famous luxury shopping streets in the world, and a sustained concentration of entertainment-industry wealth has made it one of the most internationally recognized suburb names of any city on Earth, despite its small physical size.
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Calabasas, CA
Calabasas sits in the Santa Monica Mountains at the western edge of the San Fernando Valley, and its extensive network of gated communities and large, custom-built estates has made it one of the more consistently private and security-conscious affluent suburbs anywhere in the greater Los Angeles area. The city gained substantial national visibility over the 2000s and 2010s as the home base of the Kardashian-Jenner family, whose reality television programming frequently featured Calabasas homes and local businesses, giving the small city — incorporated only in 1991, making it one of the more recently established municipalities in the entire region — an outsized level of national pop-culture recognition relative to its modest population of roughly 24,000. The Commons at Calabasas, an open-air shopping and dining center built in a Mediterranean architectural style, has functioned as the city's primary retail and social hub since opening in the early 2000s, drawing shoppers and diners specifically for its combination of upscale retail and a walkable, outdoor mall format uncommon in much of the surrounding Valley. Calabasas's combination of Santa Monica Mountains scenery, an extensive network of gated luxury communities, and a level of reality-television-driven name recognition unusual for a suburb of its size has made it one of the more culturally distinctive and consistently expensive communities in the western San Fernando Valley area.
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