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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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Malibu, CA
Malibu stretches across roughly 21 miles of Pacific coastline northwest of Los Angeles, and that combination of surfable beach breaks and dramatic coastal bluffs made it a magnet for the Southern California surf culture that took shape through the mid-20th century, with Surfrider Beach in particular regarded as one of the sport's most historically significant breaks in the entire state. The city has drawn entertainment-industry wealth to its beachfront for nearly a century, and the stretch of oceanfront homes along Carbon Beach — informally nicknamed "Billionaire's Beach" — has become one of the most expensive and closely watched residential real estate markets in the entire country, despite Malibu not incorporating as its own city until 1991. Pepperdine University's hillside campus, overlooking the Pacific from bluffs above the Pacific Coast Highway, gives Malibu a small but genuine higher-education presence layered on top of its beach-town and celebrity-residence identity, and the historic Malibu Pier, first built in 1905, remains a working pier open for fishing and dining along the same coastline. Malibu's combination of a historically significant surf culture, one of the most expensive stretches of residential coastline in the country, and dramatic bluff-and-ocean scenery along Pacific Coast Highway has made it one of the most nationally recognized coastal communities anywhere in the United States, despite a year-round population of only around 10,000 residents.
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