Zuckerberg, the neighbor from hell

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Mark Zuckerberg gifted noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors because of the nonstop construction around his 11 homes


Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has been rankling his neighbors in Palo Alto as he works on expanding and modifying the 11 homes that he has purchased in the area. To smooth over tensions, The New York Times says Zuckerberg gifted his next-door neighbors noise-canceling headphones as a peace offering.

Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire cofounder of Facebook and CEO of Meta, reportedly gave noise-canceling headphones to his neighbors in the Crescent Park neighborhood of Palo Alto in an effort to address years of frustration over ongoing construction and disruption surrounding his expanding residential compound, according to The New York Times.

Zuckerberg has spent more than $110 million purchasing at least 11 homes on Edgewood Drive and Hamilton Avenue over the past 14 years, transforming this once-idyllic neighborhood of lawyers, business executives, and Stanford University professors into a zone dominated by construction equipment, surveillance, and frequent lavish parties.

Some of these properties that were recently purchased sit unoccupied, despite being in a region known for its acute housing shortage, while others have been converted into guest homes, lush gardens, a pickleball court, a pool with a hydrofloor, and—at least for a time—a private school for Zuckerberg’s children and several others (a use that appears not to comply with local zoning ordinances).

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/mark-zuckerberg-gifted-noise-canceling-132335870.html

Nothing like a little excess.

[dem4decades]

1. Rich peoples problems.

[MIButterfly]

2. That is so disgusting to me.

I can't help but think how many poor people and children in this country could be helped with $110 million. Instead, it goes to one man's insatiable need to prove I don't even know what.

It's obscene.

[Skittles]

3. a pox on EVERYONE who made that POS a billionaire

UGH

[Boo1]

4. Oh no

Zuckerbergs annoying his billionaire neighbors. So sad.

[fujiyamasan]

13. I doubt they're all billionaires

Some may just be living in these homes for a long time. He’s just an entitled ass hole.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. Billionaire college professors?

Didn't know they made that much.

[Boo1]

19. IDK

is the Stanford Professor David Cheriton?


I mean maybe not everyone who lives on a block where 3 BR homes sell for $12 million is a billionaire, but they ain't living paycheck to paycheck either.

[Aussie105]

5. Zuck moves in?

Well, there goes the neighborhood!

Money can't buy class.

[karin_sj]

6. What a creep

These people are so entitled and selfish. It’s disgusting.

[not fooled]

7. Why did he pick on an existing residential, normal neighborhood???

Usually these sociopathic money grubbers go off and buy a secluded enclave where they can isolate themselves and their adherents.

This one plunks down his big footprint smack dab in the middle of a lovely, normal neighborhood.

Condolences to the poor neighbors, who never asked for this. And a pox on the Palo Alto planners who allow this (no doubt sketchy if not illegal) imposition to wreck the surroundings.

[catchnrelease]

9. He's done/doing the same thing on Kauai

He's got a compound there on over 2300 acres! I've read similar complaints--noise, multiple residences, native burial sites, etc. Crazy stuff!!

[fujiyamasan]

12. These ass hole billionaires are going to be bidding up public lands soon

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I have a feeling they’ll be auctioning a lot of federal lands including some national parks soon.

[slightlv]

8. It's like the story I heard many years back

about Lee Majors (I think it was him... 6 million dollar man)... getting royally p'o'd because he'd been cited for using more than the allotted amount of water during a dire water shortage, and because he was endlessly watering his lawn. His words were basically, I made the money... it's my house and my yard... as long as I pay for it, screw it. It's mine.

I DETEST the entitlement of these rich people to use resources as tho they are the only ones on earth that need or want them. $110 million could buy a lot of small homes for the homeless people in the streets right now... and they could buy a heck of a lot of meals for people who have no idea where their next meal is coming from. Not to mention, paying down medical debt for those who are under water with our great healthcare system.

With these people, it's always "me, me, me"... it's never "us"... unless they're looking to take something away from us!

[oasis]

10. Lee "no acting talent" Majors. What a jerk.

[LilyBelle]

15. Tom Selleck

stole water from a fire hydrant and paid a 20k fine.

[slightlv]

16. That was it! Thank you for correction, Lilybelle!

[PatrickforB]

11. I guess I'm just a simple working schmuck...what is a hydrofloor? n/t

[Borogove]

14. One thing money can't buy is character.

[LudwigPastorius]

17. Why don't these tech bros just go off and live on their own goddamned islands?

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That way, they can indulge their Ayn Randian libertarian utopia fantasies without bothering the rest of us.

They've already renounced the Social Compact by amassing more wealth than they can ever spend. Why do they try to pretend that they belong anywhere near normal human beings?

[DFW]

20. One of my nephews lives in Palo Alto

He has been in the same small apartment for about 15 years with his wife and (now) son. He wants something bigger, and wants to stay in the area but can’t afford anything that has both walls and an entrance door.