They absolutely are. And if you've been there in an earthquake, it is very unnerving. Plus the grass in the summer is tall and very dry. All it takes is one flame and one windy day.
I live in the Hills. The sweet spot is 1/4 to half way up. Beyond that it's 10 to 15 minutes of narrow roads with tons of switchbacks. Toss in a work truck and that "short" commute is a daily pain in the arse. Stressful. At night, the views are spectacular
All until the heavy rain hits bad while an earthquake takes place. Then the dream is over. The hills come down like some melted chocolate on a cake and the hoses, along with people's lives and money, go down the drain.
MANY years ago I lived at 2020 Barcelona Dr. a small, red roofed A frame visible at 1:39. At the time I had an MGB, and yeah...nothing worse than getting home at 6:00 p.m. after a fifteen minute climb up from Sunset, the car is on the verge of overheating, only to realize that you forgot to get milk or whatever.
When I was younger, I lived in the Hills. First on Primrose Lane, then on Woodrow Wilson Drive (in Tony Danza's old house, so I would get invites to art galleries, etc. in his daughter Amy's name). I preferred my houses. They weren't built up on stilts, and they actually had yards with plenty of space. I never had to worry about earthquakes or mudslides where I was, as we were in the middle section of the hills. Plenty of privacy and quiet. I met my husband (boyfriend at the time), and he was a carpenter. He built a home in the Hills for the man who owned the trademark for the Hard Rock Cafe. It cost $10 million in 1990, and it had no backyard, basically. It sloped so far down, that the only thing my then boyfriend could come up with was a large deck with plenty of seating, and a place for their hot tub that wrapped around the back and side of the house and cantilevered out. A neighbor and I walked through while he was building it, and they had some expensive Brazilian cherry wood cabinets, but when we peeked inside, it looked like particle board. The windows they chose looked cheap. We laughed, because their $10 million dollar mansion couldn't buy them taste. The view is always yellow haze until noon ish, anyway because of smog. Our friend who received royalties from songs he wrote and sang (but were no longer popular), on the other hand, had a beautiful white stucco home that was tucked away in the upper part of the canyon, not on stilts, and he bought it in the 70s before prices became outrageous. Money doesn't guarantee good taste. We are required to have earthquake insurance, as well as mudslide insurance in certain areas. I think both of the houses I grew up in only required earthquake insurance. My father liked to move a lot, and he eventually moved back to Texas. I wisely moved back home, too. It's much cheaper here, and there's no smog. There's no place like home. Those mansions on the edge of a cliff don't look safe, and they don't look very homelike to me. Who needs 16 bathrooms, or wants to walk the equivalent of a football field to see their parent? To each their own, I guess. I am happy in my normal sized ranch where I don't have to send out a search party for my family members, or worry about who might be living unbeknownst to me in the unused wing of my home. That's a nouveau riche thing. Old money doesn't spend wealth on ostentatious things. That's how you lose your money. Anything above 6,000 square feet is a waste. Plus, some of those designs were just downright ugly. I would rather spend my money on collectibles and clothes. Also, stocks and bonds to get more money, which you can then give to charity. St. Jude's Children's Fund always needs money (as do many others).
Yes and answer to your question maybe a lot of those people are at work or on a film set Or is could have been filmed during the winter time and it was too coldOr is could have been filmed during the winter time and it was too cold
Fantastic filming and flying over the Hollywood Hills area. I was just out that way a few months ago…it certainly gives me a different perspective of the area . Nice work
I worked on a crew building a new house in Beverly Hills recently that had piles driven 60’ underground into the bedrock. That house is not going anywhere.
while it certainly is beautiful, even though they are close together, the side of peoples houses no one really uses anyway, so the closeness wouldn't bother me. The front and back of houses is what really counts. But, all the houses hanging over the cliffs, would really worry me. Even if it wasn't earthquake zone, I don't think id like a house overlooking a cliff. Not that what I live in is any better. **sigh** This was a fun video to watch. Like someone else stated, not many solar panels on the roofs, and in all this sun.
Never realized that those homes were so jam-packed in there (never seen extended aerial views like this before). Maybe it's also a lot worse now than it was 30 years ago. And what an awful, awful view most of them have. Pretty dystopian.
Would be so cool if you could add in some descriptions like Laurel Canyon -blue Heights - different key -Kirkwood bowl, Sunset Plaza, etc. roads so you can get a sense of where you are..
ABSOLUTELY INSANE. I'm no Geophysicist or Earthquake-educated builder but I have a much better understanding of construction than most people and I COULD NOT believe my eyes!! How in the BLOODY HELL did that construction get approved🤯🤯🤯⁉
A guy from LA who won a few hundred mil in the lottery earlier this year recently bought a big house there. He was a regular Joe blow, probably wanted to live there his whole life, had a huge chunk of money fall into his lap and gets to live his dream.
I see an appocolypse just waiting to take place the way these houses are practically on top of one another it’s just crazy, well you see what’s happening on the coast there in some areas where costal irrosion is happening and houses are falling into the water below, one little crack open up and away goes many houses.
That soccer field you see at the very end could very well have been built on the priciest real estate in Los Angeles proper (well, outside of some pockets of Bel Air, at least.)
0:50 , Big house in the center with the 3 huge bays is on the market for $78,000,000 right now. A lot others are for sale too but that one caught my eye.
I lived in the Hollywood Hills and loved it, but at any moment Biblical prophesies get fulfilled at random: mud slides, wild fires, earthquakes, flooding.
Why would you live on a house on a cliff near the Andreas fault line? I'd never sleep easy! (and being in a house on the bottom of the hill wouldn't thrill me either)
Because they're dumb, what hollyweird won't admit, is that there's a mass exodus of "actors and actresses" leaving L.A. for good. So their agents and lawyers could move in to the recently fled wasteland.
Views, location, climate, opportunity, I could honestly go on forever. The Hollywood hills are one of the geographically flawless zones. We have data to predict earthquakes, and almost every luxury updated building in LA is built for earthquakes. Where do you live? Please let us examine what factors your environment consist of to understand why your asking such a question.
The whole area is totally overcrowded with more or less beautiful buildings. The streets are very often in a desolate condition, as are the embankments. I wonder what is supposed to be so special here?
where we are going, we don’t need roads! just kidding, i believe that was Oriole way, but at some point i flew over the houses to Thrasher Ave. i hope this helps.
Am I the only one who thinks the gianormity of these houses is just ridiculous? No one needs that much space unless they have like 16 kids. It is insane to me how much house ONE person has. Or two. These houses are ridiculously huge and there’s no need for it.
@@gregorytwerkingtonthethi-sr3dv how do you know I can’t ever have a house like that? You don’t know how much house I can afford. I WON’T ever have a house like that because like I said, it’s ridiculous. I won’t ever live in a house bigger than a 3 bedroom. I don’t need more space than that. No matter how rich I am, there are more important things than a mega mansion.
Why in the hell would you want too live in such close Quarters, and on a Hill🤔that one day you will wake up and you and your house is sliding down the hill,🤔
Doubtful that they, or at least the newest hoes will crumble even in the most severe seismic event. Why? Good question. Most of these modern hillside homes have very deep caissons anchored to bedrock that supports the homes - 20 to 30 feet deep. Yes, there will be some shaking but the house probably won't fall down the hill with perhaps things inside falling off shelves. Since the hills shake less than say downtown Los Angeles with sits upon a couple of miles of soils, that will shake more. A modern well engineered home in the hills would be most likely the safest place to be. Now, there could always be a landslide from a hillside above. Fire would be my biggest worry and even then most of these homes are built with that in mind.
In a major earthquake the place I would not want to be would be in a 1950's - 1960's midrise on the Wilshire corridor. Why you ask? Good question: Most of those mid century buildings build of poured concrete have insufficient rebar to support the columns during the lateral moment in a major seismic event, unless the building has been retrofitted. Another place to avoid, are soft story apartment buildings better known as "Dingbat" apartments. You can google that if you are not familiar wi th the term. Basically they are apartment buildings usually two floors built on top of parking. The thin column won't support the building in the event of lateral movement.
I saw one drone video over Brentwood a few years back and there was a porn shoot going on, needless to say it was quite weird the things you can see with a drone.
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Those houses are just jam packed almost on top of each other.
They absolutely are. And if you've been there in an earthquake, it is very unnerving. Plus the grass in the summer is tall and very dry. All it takes is one flame and one windy day.
I live in the Hills. The sweet spot is 1/4 to half way up. Beyond that it's 10 to 15 minutes of narrow roads with tons of switchbacks. Toss in a work truck and that "short" commute is a daily pain in the arse. Stressful.
At night, the views are spectacular
All until the heavy rain hits bad while an earthquake takes place. Then the dream is over. The hills come down like some melted chocolate on a cake and the hoses, along with people's lives and money, go down the drain.
MANY years ago I lived at 2020 Barcelona Dr. a small, red roofed A frame visible at 1:39. At the time I had an MGB, and yeah...nothing worse than getting home at 6:00 p.m. after a fifteen minute climb up from Sunset, the car is on the verge of overheating, only to realize that you forgot to get milk or whatever.
That's what I call living on the edge!
Thanks for showing my house 👍
When I was younger, I lived in the Hills. First on Primrose Lane, then on Woodrow Wilson Drive (in Tony Danza's old house, so I would get invites to art galleries, etc. in his daughter Amy's name). I preferred my houses. They weren't built up on stilts, and they actually had yards with plenty of space. I never had to worry about earthquakes or mudslides where I was, as we were in the middle section of the hills. Plenty of privacy and quiet. I met my husband (boyfriend at the time), and he was a carpenter. He built a home in the Hills for the man who owned the trademark for the Hard Rock Cafe. It cost $10 million in 1990, and it had no backyard, basically. It sloped so far down, that the only thing my then boyfriend could come up with was a large deck with plenty of seating, and a place for their hot tub that wrapped around the back and side of the house and cantilevered out. A neighbor and I walked through while he was building it, and they had some expensive Brazilian cherry wood cabinets, but when we peeked inside, it looked like particle board. The windows they chose looked cheap. We laughed, because their $10 million dollar mansion couldn't buy them taste. The view is always yellow haze until noon ish, anyway because of smog. Our friend who received royalties from songs he wrote and sang (but were no longer popular), on the other hand, had a beautiful white stucco home that was tucked away in the upper part of the canyon, not on stilts, and he bought it in the 70s before prices became outrageous. Money doesn't guarantee good taste. We are required to have earthquake insurance, as well as mudslide insurance in certain areas. I think both of the houses I grew up in only required earthquake insurance. My father liked to move a lot, and he eventually moved back to Texas. I wisely moved back home, too. It's much cheaper here, and there's no smog. There's no place like home. Those mansions on the edge of a cliff don't look safe, and they don't look very homelike to me. Who needs 16 bathrooms, or wants to walk the equivalent of a football field to see their parent? To each their own, I guess. I am happy in my normal sized ranch where I don't have to send out a search party for my family members, or worry about who might be living unbeknownst to me in the unused wing of my home. That's a nouveau riche thing. Old money doesn't spend wealth on ostentatious things. That's how you lose your money. Anything above 6,000 square feet is a waste. Plus, some of those designs were just downright ugly. I would rather spend my money on collectibles and clothes. Also, stocks and bonds to get more money, which you can then give to charity. St. Jude's Children's Fund always needs money (as do many others).
Id rather give that money to the poor who live in mud huts.
I would love to send out a search party for people in my house. Lol
@@worthyisthelamb7 yeah the poor in mud huts that are busy making as much poor children as possible... Playing the victim is easy ofcourse.
I truly wish I knew a carpentar....I have some pure Honduran Mahogany wood my daddy left me.
@@worthyisthelamb7 Why?
All those pools & nobody swimming?
Yes and answer to your question maybe a lot of those people are at work or on a film set Or is could have been filmed during the winter time and it was too coldOr is could have been filmed during the winter time and it was too cold
And I'm sitting here in Arkansas Burning 🔥 up
@@kimeddy4743it’s hollywood it’s never too cold and not everyone is an entertainer and they’re sure as hell not at work
Status symbol
Here In L.A. almost no one uses them except kids.
Fantastic filming and flying over the Hollywood Hills area. I was just out that way a few months ago…it certainly gives me a different perspective of the area . Nice work
Favelas de milionarios
I hope those geographical surveys were AND are accurate! I couldn't live in some of those highly perched homes, despite not having the money.
Despite not having the money? I don’t think you know what despite means.
Amazing views!!! And the fab climate to go with it!!!
A-mazing views !
Madness in concrete form ;)
If it suddenly got very rainy I wonder if many of those homes would just slide off of their hills...
One good earthquake should do it 😂
@@alison__16 How's your horse paste today, Goober?
@@greeneyedwarlock882 forgot your meds today?
@@alison__16 I’m not in a PHUCKING CULT so no meds needed, Honey. Time for YOUR Thorazine.
They can afford another by the looks.. Don"t worry bout it .
Awww. I read it as drone FIGHT and was waiting for another drone to appear and an epic fight to follow.
I moved out in 2018.
Got tired of the wall to wall rooftops.
1. Great work on the filming. 2. Why the hell would you want to live there if you had that much money?
excellent, do more of that. maybe add a sunset flight? add flights for malibu, palm springs, oc, the valley, etc. thanks for the great job.
Interesting but would loathe to live there
I worked on a crew building a new house in Beverly Hills recently that had piles driven 60’ underground into the bedrock. That house is not going anywhere.
Mother Nature "hold my beer"
Even if they don't go anywhere, fires will come to them, as we have seen so many times. The good thing is that they have money to run from disaster.
Reminds me of Darjeeling.
Wow! Nicely done...
You know they all own binoculars to spy on the neighbors.
If it's possible, can you do an aerial view of the redwood forest? Or if you already have a video of it. Can you show here? I would appreciate it. 🙏
Looks ghastly!!!
Magnifique ❤
while it certainly is beautiful, even though they are close together, the side of peoples houses no one really uses anyway, so the closeness wouldn't bother me. The front and back of houses is what really counts.
But, all the houses hanging over the cliffs, would really worry me. Even if it wasn't earthquake zone, I don't think id like a house overlooking a cliff. Not that what I live in is any better. **sigh** This was a fun video to watch. Like someone else stated, not many solar panels on the roofs, and in all this sun.
This is awesome
Shocking to see so few solar panels...even here in The Netherlands you see 20 x as many on houses.
Rich people don’t care about the climate. Solar panels are for poor people.
Solar panels aren’t really popular in the US. In my neighborhood, there’s probably 2 houses out of 20 that have solar panels.
Australia has loads of solar as well
I have. Never been there, but to me it looks like all houses and no landscaping ! 😢
guy- super,amazing recording~ see ya!.:)
That was fun! More, More More!..........Thanks
Some of these luxury homes look as though they are going to tumble down from the precipice that they are built on.
The houses are so close together.😬
Would love to know what criteria people have for building a new home here. I'd feel like surrounding homes could see into my windows
Never realized that those homes were so jam-packed in there (never seen extended aerial views like this before). Maybe it's also a lot worse now than it was 30 years ago. And what an awful, awful view most of them have. Pretty dystopian.
@@betsyj59 Exactly. Bet it felt like a pretty sweet deal 30 years ago, before the 30 neighbours.
house of cards, lets wait and see next earthquake. i hope a drone will capture the massive erosion from top down.
These people live to be seen.
@@piloto_loco Better than where you are...Dog Patch USA!
What was it like during all those heavy rains? Some of these homes are in valleys.
Watch me not care.
Would be so cool if you could add in some descriptions like Laurel Canyon -blue Heights - different key -Kirkwood bowl, Sunset Plaza, etc. roads so you can get a sense of where you are..
Wow, look at that platform, or foundation at 4:44!
ABSOLUTELY INSANE. I'm no Geophysicist or Earthquake-educated builder but I have a much better understanding of construction than most people and I COULD NOT believe my eyes!! How in the BLOODY HELL did that construction get approved🤯🤯🤯⁉
A guy from LA who won a few hundred mil in the lottery earlier this year recently bought a big house there. He was a regular Joe blow, probably wanted to live there his whole life, had a huge chunk of money fall into his lap and gets to live his dream.
Yep, I saw the pictures. His new-build contemporary megamansion is right next to a vertical wall of mud!
I see an appocolypse just waiting to take place the way these houses are practically on top of one another it’s just crazy, well you see what’s happening on the coast there in some areas where costal irrosion is happening and houses are falling into the water below, one little crack open up and away goes many houses.
That's one long drive for work 😮
They the boss😂
They aint commuting!
Video is nice.
Good job dude. More confused by the steel on the one build.
Imagine all the cocaine consumption in that area ..😬
Ummmm........this is 2023, not 1983 Dude. Cocaine is the Model T of drugs and has been for decades now.
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Hanno costruito in maniera selvaggia, però da innamorato Los Angeles è spettacolare. Un italiano
That soccer field you see at the very end could very well have been built on the priciest real estate in Los Angeles proper (well, outside of some pockets of Bel Air, at least.)
Come on I want see new one see that house being built on that hill drive me crazy crazy
0:50 , Big house in the center with the 3 huge bays is on the market for $78,000,000 right now. A lot others are for sale too but that one caught my eye.
Looks like most of them don't need their lawns mowed. In the case of a bad earthquake I wouldn't want to be perched on the top of some of those hills.
impressive
Agreed, looks like overbuilding 😮to the MAX. Pass.
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I spotted Leo's house during the flight!
I wonder how many of those homeowners have an earthquake insurance? Not to mention the fires and landslides...
Home.danks..please more..
What did you have to do to be allowed to do this?
The views are fantastic but it is precarious.
I lived in the Hollywood Hills and loved it, but at any moment Biblical prophesies get fulfilled at random: mud slides, wild fires, earthquakes, flooding.
Wonder how many are AirBnB?
When SOCAL gets the 'big one' how can some of those houses not go tumblin' down them thar hills??
Why would you live on a house on a cliff near the Andreas fault line? I'd never sleep easy! (and being in a house on the bottom of the hill wouldn't thrill me either)
Because they're dumb, what hollyweird won't admit, is that there's a mass exodus of "actors and actresses" leaving L.A. for good. So their agents and lawyers could move in to the recently fled wasteland.
One word: view.
Views, location, climate, opportunity, I could honestly go on forever. The Hollywood hills are one of the geographically flawless zones. We have data to predict earthquakes, and almost every luxury updated building in LA is built for earthquakes. Where do you live? Please let us examine what factors your environment consist of to understand why your asking such a question.
@@pony0110Earthquakes still cannot be predicted anywhere on earth.
I’ve seen inside nearly all of these thanks to producer Micheal! 😂
Da li je to blizu cielo drive 10050?
Excellent aerial footage but sad that only a few of those beautiful Spanish homes still remain replace by those ugly "moderns".
I wouldn't live on those hills. I'd be afraid of the home crashing down the hill.
So you are Not in the Class B airspace?
nice
Mud ❤😊
Hollywood Hills??? You only showing the house around Rising Glen Rd🫤
i got some bird streets too. 😝
That pool on stilts was ridiculous?
For how expensive these homes are, there's hardly any property.
the amount of luxus cumulated in one place is just sickening
at 9:30 the house being constructed, what on Earth??
In the distance. LA, Century City, and ????
santa monica/pacific palisades
Cool. I hope they enjoy it. One good quake could tumble it all.
swimming pool over then edge
Nice Enclave of luxury and security, surrounded by homelessness, crime and poverty.
The whole area is totally overcrowded with more or less beautiful buildings. The streets are very often in a desolate condition, as are the embankments. I wonder what is supposed to be so special here?
Beautiful views, and lots of wildlife.
As F Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, "The proximity to millionaires."
@@MothGirl007 film history, nice weather all year, restaurants....if it exists, it's probably in L.A.
A narration or titles of which celeb's house we're looking at would be lovely,Thanks for not adding any stupid or infuritating 'music'.
Hollywood Hills favela
what is the name of the street at minute 10:52?
where we are going, we don’t need roads!
just kidding, i believe that was Oriole way, but at some point i flew over the houses to Thrasher Ave. i hope this helps.
@@be3n867 thanks bro
So much for privacy
Am I the only one who thinks the gianormity of these houses is just ridiculous? No one needs that much space unless they have like 16 kids. It is insane to me how much house ONE person has. Or two. These houses are ridiculously huge and there’s no need for it.
You are not the only only and you cant ever have a house like that so you cant worry.
@@gregorytwerkingtonthethi-sr3dv how do you know I can’t ever have a house like that? You don’t know how much house I can afford. I WON’T ever have a house like that because like I said, it’s ridiculous. I won’t ever live in a house bigger than a 3 bedroom. I don’t need more space than that. No matter how rich I am, there are more important things than a mega mansion.
Why in the hell would you want too live in such close Quarters, and on a Hill🤔that one day you will wake up and you and your house is sliding down the hill,🤔
Some people have too much money...
Great video. Maybe some instrumental music in the background would help.
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Looks so over crowded.
I spotted slum dwellers.
Do a terminal flyover of the Whitehouse and see how close you could get before getting shot down and going to jail. 🤔😳
Under Biden's administration, a flyover of the white house, they would probably throw you a baggy full of cocaine.
And they all will crumble come the big quake 💯
Doubtful that they, or at least the newest hoes will crumble even in the most severe seismic event. Why? Good question. Most of these modern hillside homes have very deep caissons anchored to bedrock that supports the homes - 20 to 30 feet deep. Yes, there will be some shaking but the house probably won't fall down the hill with perhaps things inside falling off shelves. Since the hills shake less than say downtown Los Angeles with sits upon a couple of miles of soils, that will shake more. A modern well engineered home in the hills would be most likely the safest place to be. Now, there could always be a landslide from a hillside above. Fire would be my biggest worry and even then most of these homes are built with that in mind.
In a major earthquake the place I would not want to be would be in a 1950's - 1960's midrise on the Wilshire corridor. Why you ask? Good question: Most of those mid century buildings build of poured concrete have insufficient rebar to support the columns during the lateral moment in a major seismic event, unless the building has been retrofitted. Another place to avoid, are soft story apartment buildings better known as "Dingbat" apartments. You can google that if you are not familiar wi th the term. Basically they are apartment buildings usually two floors built on top of parking. The thin column won't support the building in the event of lateral movement.
You're about as sharp as spoon, aren't you, "Susie"??
@@greeneyedwarlock882 I don't think that yo are replying to me.
Vídeo lindo, mais pelo menos colocasse uma música...
Umm, a lot of those houses do not look secure..I want my house on a Solid Ground..What if there is severe Rainstorms..
I saw one drone video over Brentwood a few years back and there was a porn shoot going on, needless to say it was quite weird the things you can see with a drone.
They love the mudslides😅😅😅😅😅
fax um pix pra mim ae o dia ta lindo e eu vejo
Cool video...Just something..."ugly" looking about all those Homes.
Tennis courts are a total waste of space. My neighbor has one and I never see anyone playing on it. Through up an ADU on it and rent it out
Too noisy, turn the volume down!
i think this is not legal, but cool vid
i tried to comply with all local and federal laws. please let me know what i did wrong? to the best of my knowledge, all my videos are legal. i even believe that non-monetized publication do not violate part 107. I am not a lawyer, i hope i am doing this correctly. 🤞