The Opt-Out Class: Montecito and the New Luxury of Disappearing
Harry and Meghan’s move to Montecito wasn’t an anomaly—it was a signal. Montecito isn’t just a retreat; it’s a blueprint for the new elite economy of disappearance.
“California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.” — Joan Didion
The Most Public Couple in the World Vanished. Quietly.
There was a time—somewhat brief, yet strangely endless—when Harry and Meghan were everywhere.
Talk show couches, transatlantic headlines, podcast rollouts, streaming-serv…
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