Members of Mark Zuckerberg’s local community in California say the Meta CEO’s decision to move in has completely upended life in their otherwise peaceful and leafy district.

“No neighborhood wants to be occupied,” Michael Kieschnick, who lives in a home in Crescent Park, a neighborhood in Palo Alto that’s surrounded on three sides by properties owned by the tech tycoon, told The New York Times Sunday. “But that’s exactly what they’ve done. They’ve occupied our neighborhood.”

Zuckerberg, along with his wife Priscilla Chan and their three daughters, moved to the community more than 14 years ago. In the time since, the family has spent more than $110 million buying at least 11 houses spread across just two streets, offering prior owners up to triple the value of their homes to move out.

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