Posted on 06/03/2017 11:08:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Malibu is known as the playland for the rich and famous in the Los Angeles area. But is it overrated?
An article in the Hollywood Reporter talks about one of the most common pastimes in Malibu: dying by car.
Hollywood's summer getaway of lavish oceanfront rentals attracts 15 million annual visitors, but its main highway's "Blood Alley" is notorious for vehicular tragedy.
Fifteen percent of the more than 400 accidents each year on PCH [Pacific Coast Highway] are parking-related, and the shoulders on both sides of the highway are perpetually lethal. Rapper MC Supreme, aka Dewayne Coleman, was killed when a pickup truck slammed into his car when it was pulled over at Corral Canyon Road in June 2015. (Rob Lowe tweeted in response that PCH is "a death trap.") Producer Michel Shane (Catch Me If You Can; I, Robot) lost his 13-year-old daughter, Emily, after she was fatally struck in 2010 while walking along the road by Point Dume[.]
The roads that cross Malibu are small and windy and feature sharp turns that easily lead to collision from oncoming cars. People park their cars along the Pacific Coast Highway then walk along it to the beach, only to get hit by oncoming traffic.
Malibu is also home to wildfires.
Malibu is also home to mudslides.
Malibu's beaches are supposed to be great, but they are tiny strips of sand sandwiched close to the highway.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Not if you love the sight of your home sliding into the ocean.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Used to work there - during one of the biggest wildfires ever!
Time to jump into the ocean.
Yes, as some who is there often, has family and friends there and has worked in a office on the beach by the pier - I can say Hell yes. To keep out the rift raft everyone has to put in there own sewer which as you might imagine is only for the stinking rich - which exactly how it smells often, makes one miss the aroma of Tacoma. Once they took the La Salsa out why even go there save the beach.
If Liberals actually believe the lunatics saying that the Ocean levels will rise in a decade, why do they continue to buy overpriced Malibu Ocean Front Estates?
In CA our “Coastal Commission” has mandated that you cannot block Public Assess to the Beach in front of your home.
However, more than a few Hollywood types have done so for years, using their money to hire Lawyers to postpone any action to make them comply.
I believe David Geffen (the owner of the massive C02 Producing Yacht on which he just hosted the Obama’s) was famous for his opposition in allowing the little people to violate the sanctity of “his” Beachfront.
On a one week vacation, you won't suffer too much impact from the corrupt government other than dealing with the excessive traffic Brownomics helped to generate. :)
An long time a good friend of mine married the daughter of a famous well off Hollywood Producer.
From what I can see he appears to be living the high life in Mailibu, California. Although he’s traveling all over the world now. Spends 75% of his time there and 25% everywhere else.
Will wait and see where he is at in a few years. Then I will comment.
Another cousin (wife's first cousin) has been married to a guy for 30+ years who started a graffiti removal company which has major contracts with L.A., Las Vegas strip, San Francisco, etc... he's easing into retirement now and they bought a 5,000 sq ft house on the beach in Malibu.
Life is nice for some folks!
Always!
Just like the rest of California!
No - but Thousand Oaks is pretty nice.
I dont know about over rated but
it’s diffidently over priced.
And yet I’m still heading there in 15 minutes.
Many of the worst people in California live in Malibu. Malibu is mainly populated with trash. Obnoxious, arrogant, self-adoring, nouveau riche trash.
Agree...
Democrats.
Is Jim Rockford’s trailer home still parked there?
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