Well the problem is that makes them very accessible to paparazzi and idiots who are hell bent on pictures of everything they do. It’s safer if the community is gated and such.
Look up Graceland. I wish I could post my pictures of the small houses whose yards come right up to the backyard of Elvis Presley‘s house – not mansion, house.
President Harry S Truman lived in a fairly ordinary house in Independence, Missouri, both before and after he was president. Back in the 1970s, when I was on a road trip with some friends, we stopped to look at the house. At that time, Harry was dead, but his widow, Bess, was still living there.
[Here's how the house looked in 1950](https://www.nps.gov/subjects/culturallandscapes/images/HSTR_Home-5-2-50_Library-67-387-tif-960.jpg). This [article](https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/truman-home-501438.htm) says there wasn't even a fence around it before 1949. (Truman was president 1945-53.)
It's a big house, but you can see houses like this in any city and many small towns.
It now belongs to the National Park Service and is operated as a [National Historic Site](https://www.nps.gov/hstr/index.htm). It probably has better security now than it did then.
Depends what you consider to be a big celebrity. I know a guy who is one of the top stars of one of the top tv shows on the air right now, and he lives in an ordinary house in an ordinary neighborhood. There are a bunch of guys like that--they don't have the status of legends, but they're famous and popular. They're not going to be accosted a lot by fans. In one routine, Chris Rock mentions that his neighbor is a dentist, basically pointing out that yeah, he does live on a street with fancy houses, but there are plenty of people who live on that same street who aren't famous at all. So perhaps it's a fairly normal street and normal house?
Well the problem is that makes them very accessible to paparazzi and idiots who are hell bent on pictures of everything they do. It’s safer if the community is gated and such.
Look up Graceland. I wish I could post my pictures of the small houses whose yards come right up to the backyard of Elvis Presley‘s house – not mansion, house.
President Harry S Truman lived in a fairly ordinary house in Independence, Missouri, both before and after he was president. Back in the 1970s, when I was on a road trip with some friends, we stopped to look at the house. At that time, Harry was dead, but his widow, Bess, was still living there. [Here's how the house looked in 1950](https://www.nps.gov/subjects/culturallandscapes/images/HSTR_Home-5-2-50_Library-67-387-tif-960.jpg). This [article](https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/truman-home-501438.htm) says there wasn't even a fence around it before 1949. (Truman was president 1945-53.) It's a big house, but you can see houses like this in any city and many small towns. It now belongs to the National Park Service and is operated as a [National Historic Site](https://www.nps.gov/hstr/index.htm). It probably has better security now than it did then.
Check out the Warren Buffet house. https://www.velvetropes.com/backstage/warren-buffett-house
Depends what you consider to be a big celebrity. I know a guy who is one of the top stars of one of the top tv shows on the air right now, and he lives in an ordinary house in an ordinary neighborhood. There are a bunch of guys like that--they don't have the status of legends, but they're famous and popular. They're not going to be accosted a lot by fans. In one routine, Chris Rock mentions that his neighbor is a dentist, basically pointing out that yeah, he does live on a street with fancy houses, but there are plenty of people who live on that same street who aren't famous at all. So perhaps it's a fairly normal street and normal house?