Speaking up from So Cal:
It's enough that we live in a premier earth quake zone,
that the LA basin is crime and illegal alien paradise, and...
that those conservatives in residence get lumped into the 'fruits and nuts' thing.
Malibu is an extremely expensive enclave for the rich & famous, the rich & getting richer, and every hollyweird character who demands status.
Every two or three years it gets burned out, immediately rebuilt (bigger & more exclusive) and the state and media make it out to be first rate news.
Then the cycle repeats.
If you think this is fun, check out the mega million dollar homes hanging over cliffs in Santa Monica (on the way to Malibu) - then tell me why you might actually want to live there.
At least in the gulf they build houses on stilts and remain standing after floods and hurricanes - here it's a neo-ranch style mansion with two swimming pools and beach frontage or canyon isolation, or it's a dump.
The seriousness of this story is that (like New Orleans) the state allows people to rebuild there and to expect state help when the sky actually does fall.
Your preaching to the choir I have worked on some of those homes for over 20 years I know all about Malibu
Worked the fires in 79 as a volunteer
Thanks for you info
I had a summer fling as a kid with a gal from Malibu (Topanga Canyon). I recall a photo of her and her horse where she noted that "now Bob Dylan has built a mansion on what was once a beautiful horse pasture".
"The times they are a changin'!"