Beverly Hills

Wealthy Los Angeles enclave

Beverly Hills is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, surrounded by Los Angeles proper.

Known for luxury shopping, celebrity residents, and expensive real estate, it serves as shorthand for wealth and glamour: She dreamed of a Beverly Hills lifestyle.

The 90210 zip code became cultural shorthand for elite American affluence.

Opposites
socioeconomic status

Beverly HillsSkid Row

Impoverished urban district

Compton · Appalachia · Watts · inner city · shantytown

cultural symbolism of wealth/poverty

Beverly HillsSkid Row

Impoverished urban district

poverty · squalor · deprivation · hardship · struggle

urban character

Beverly HillsSkid Row

Impoverished urban district

urban decay · shantytown · favela · tent city

Family

hills, uphill, hilly, downhill, hillside, hilltop, hillsides, anthill, Hill

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G