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Reminds me of how Zuck spent $110M buying all the homes around the one he wanted, to maintain HIS privacy. And then he had the city change zoning codes so he could stitch all 11 houses he bought into a single private compound.
I know I'm going out on a limb here. But I betcha almost nobody reading this thread can drop $110M buying out a whole neighborhood to get privacy, and then spend a couple years of heavy equipment and crew time to rebuild it.
Extreme example? Yah. But lots of smaller examples too, down here at normal ppl levels of money. You want privacy? It'll cost. Privacy becomes a luxury for the well off.