Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California
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Beverly Hills is an affluent city in the western part of Los Angeles County, California. Beverly Hills and West Hollywood are entirely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles. The area's wealthy neighborhoods consists of Beverly Hills and the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Bel-Air and Holmby Hills.
Beverly Hills is bordered on the north by Bel-Air and the Santa Monica Mountains, on the east by West Hollywood, the Carthay neighborhood of Los Angeles, and the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, on the south by the Los Angeles neighborhood of Beverlywood, and on the west by Holmby Hills as well as Westwood Village and Century City, which are also Los Angeles districts.
Today, Beverly Hills has the most expensive housing market in the United States, with a median home price of $2.21 million dollars. Nevertheless, Beverly Hills is not as uniformly wealthy as Hollywood portrays it. Even though some of the largest homes in Los Angeles County are in Beverley Hills, they make up just 10% of the houses of Beverly Hills. The majority of the homes are small duplex rental units and detached homes with area size of less than 3,000 square feet. In fact, the average household income in Beverly Hills is just over $71,000, which is only $18,000 higher than the county average.
Beverly Hills was said to have been named by the developers in 1906 after a city in Massachusetts called Beverly. The developers were intending to create a west-coast replica of this town. Early celebrities to build in Beverly Hills included Douglas Fairbanks and Harold Lloyd. In recent history, the image of Beverly Hills has been enhanced by television and movie exposure, including the The Jack Benny Program (1950 to 1954), The Beverly Hillbillies (1962 to 1971), the Beverly Hills Cop movies, and Beverly Hills 90210 (1990 to 2000).
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