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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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Santa Monica, CA
Santa Monica sits directly on the Pacific coast at the western edge of Los Angeles, and Santa Monica Pier, opened in 1909 and marking the official western terminus of Route 66, remains one of the most visited and photographed landmarks in all of Southern California, anchored by its small amusement park and iconic solar-powered Ferris wheel. The Third Street Promenade, a pedestrian-only outdoor shopping corridor spanning three blocks just inland from the beach, has functioned since its 1989 redesign as one of the most successful car-free retail districts in the country, drawing both tourists and locals to a concentration of shops, restaurants, and street performers unusual for a Southern California city built so heavily around car culture. Over the past two decades, Santa Monica became a significant hub for technology startups specifically clustered along the coast, a concentration substantial enough that the area earned the nickname "Silicon Beach," distinguishing it from the more traditional entertainment-industry employment that's long defined the broader LA economy. Served by the Metro E Line, which reopened direct rail service between downtown Los Angeles and the Santa Monica coast in 2016 after the original Pacific Electric "Red Car" line had been discontinued decades earlier, Santa Monica's combination of an iconic pier, a genuinely successful pedestrian shopping district, and a modern tech-industry cluster has made it one of the most visited and economically significant coastal suburbs in the entire Los Angeles area.
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