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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Dec 25, 2025, 07:24 PM Yesterday

Zuckerberg, the neighbor from hell [View all]

Mark Zuckerberg gifted noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors because of the nonstop construction around his 11 homes


Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has been rankling his neighbors in Palo Alto as he works on expanding and modifying the 11 homes that he has purchased in the area. To smooth over tensions, The New York Times says Zuckerberg gifted his next-door neighbors noise-canceling headphones as a peace offering.

Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire cofounder of Facebook and CEO of Meta, reportedly gave noise-canceling headphones to his neighbors in the Crescent Park neighborhood of Palo Alto in an effort to address years of frustration over ongoing construction and disruption surrounding his expanding residential compound, according to The New York Times.

Zuckerberg has spent more than $110 million purchasing at least 11 homes on Edgewood Drive and Hamilton Avenue over the past 14 years, transforming this once-idyllic neighborhood of lawyers, business executives, and Stanford University professors into a zone dominated by construction equipment, surveillance, and frequent lavish parties.

Some of these properties that were recently purchased sit unoccupied, despite being in a region known for its acute housing shortage, while others have been converted into guest homes, lush gardens, a pickleball court, a pool with a hydrofloor, and—at least for a time—a private school for Zuckerberg’s children and several others (a use that appears not to comply with local zoning ordinances).

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/mark-zuckerberg-gifted-noise-canceling-132335870.html

Nothing like a little excess.

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Zuckerberg, the neighbor from hell [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday OP
Rich peoples problems. dem4decades Yesterday #1
That is so disgusting to me. MIButterfly Yesterday #2
a pox on EVERYONE who made that POS a billionaire Skittles Yesterday #3
Oh no Boo1 Yesterday #4
I doubt they're all billionaires fujiyamasan Yesterday #13
Billionaire college professors? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 23 hrs ago #18
IDK Boo1 21 hrs ago #19
Zuck moves in? Aussie105 Yesterday #5
What a creep karin_sj Yesterday #6
Why did he pick on an existing residential, normal neighborhood??? not fooled Yesterday #7
He's done/doing the same thing on Kauai catchnrelease Yesterday #9
These ass hole billionaires are going to be bidding up public lands soon fujiyamasan Yesterday #12
It's like the story I heard many years back slightlv Yesterday #8
Lee "no acting talent" Majors. What a jerk. oasis Yesterday #10
Tom Selleck LilyBelle Yesterday #15
That was it! Thank you for correction, Lilybelle! slightlv Yesterday #16
I guess I'm just a simple working schmuck...what is a hydrofloor? n/t PatrickforB Yesterday #11
Don't positively know for certain, but... Ferretherder 16 hrs ago #21
that's what the google says. mopinko 14 hrs ago #24
That is obscene. That Zuckerberg has that when there are so many poor. n/t PatrickforB 12 hrs ago #25
One thing money can't buy is character. Borogove Yesterday #14
Why don't these tech bros just go off and live on their own goddamned islands? LudwigPastorius 23 hrs ago #17
One of my nephews lives in Palo Alto DFW 19 hrs ago #20
11 homes unavailable to others because of one man's greed. travelingthrulife 15 hrs ago #22
"Thanks for the coordinates" - Next Democratic President maxrandb 14 hrs ago #23
Gosh thats big of him. mahina 12 hrs ago #26
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