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At that point, all of the affluence, urbanity and privilege in the world wasn’t much good.

Through every incinerated block, reminders of the property owners’ affluence lingered: a home gym burned nearly beyond recognition, then a blackened hot tub, next the husks of multiple cars parked in a garage.

But at that level of affluence you don’t have grounds to complain about paying a minimum 25% of your annual income.

California was seen as a land of affluence, fashion, celebrity and new ideas — no matter that much of that was a facade.

But it has slowed in the past decade, the report said, hindering progress toward greater affluence.