Pity the poor residents of Hope Ranch, California. On the one hand, they live in a beachfront, palm-treed paradise where the sun shines nearly every day. On the other, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are rumored to be moving in. The welcome may not be warm.
“Nobody in Hope Ranch holds any ill will towards the Sussexes,” one of them has said, “but the fact is, many fear they’re going to bring a circus to their quiet, super-private ’burb since they’re so famous and controversial.” The couple would present “real-world problems”, the resident continued, because the streets are narrow and could become clogged with paparazzi. “It could create peril,” they told the celebrity Web site TMZ, “especially for kids who are playing and walking to school.”
