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why you should ditch Beverly Hills and Culver City instead

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💥 Time to flip the script! Here’s why the smart move is to ditch Beverly Hills and plant your flag in Culver City instead:

1. Real Estate Value 🚀

  • Beverly Hills: Median home ~$4–5M, with price per sq ft pushing $1,000+ — you’re paying more for the zip code brag than the lifestyle.
  • Culver City: Median home ~$1.2M, per sq ft ~$865, with luxury towers (like the ARQ) sprouting up. Translation: you can get modern, design-driven, luxury living for Âź the price.

💡 Culver is on the way up — Beverly is mature and overpriced. The upside potential is with Culver City.

2. Celebrity & Influence 🌟

  • Beverly Hills: Still packed with “old Hollywood” stars.
  • Culver City: The new stars — Apple TV+, Amazon MGM, TikTok, Sony, and a flood of influencers, media execs, and startup founders. Culver is where the next generation of celebrity power is being minted.

Think: producers, creators, innovators > aging actors.

3. Shopping & Style 🛍️

  • Beverly Hills: Rodeo Drive = luxury mega-brands. Dior, Cartier, Rolex — safe, but predictable.
  • Culver City: Platform LA + Helms Bakery District = curated, indie-luxury vibes. Aesop, Reformation, rotating high-concept pop-ups. Style that feels fresh, not stuck in 1980s flex.

4. Food & Dining 🍽️

  • Beverly Hills: Spago, Nobu, CafĂŠ Boulud — iconic, but leaning corporate.
  • Culver City: Vespertine (2 Michelin stars, avant-garde, literally architecture as dining), Destroyer, sushi omakase counters, new wave bistros. Culinary experiments that make Beverly’s staples feel safe and boring.

5. Culture & Creativity 🎨🎬

  • Beverly Hills: Polished, legacy galleries, luxury events.
  • Culver City: Sony Pictures, Amazon MGM, TikTok, Apple studios, plus dozens of cutting-edge galleries (Blum & Poe, Honor Fraser). Culver is literally where the future of entertainment is being written.

It’s not just culture, it’s creative production at scale.

✨ The Verdict:

Culver City is the new Beverly Hills — but younger, faster, smarter, and still affordable.

Why settle for Rodeo nostalgia when you could live in the epicenter of LA’s creative/tech/media future?

👉 Beverly Hills = yesterday’s flex.

👉 Culver City = tomorrow’s empire.

Want me to craft this into a bold manifesto-style essay — “Why I Ditched Beverly Hills for Culver City” — in your Eric Kim voice?

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