Question one
What does it mean to be Coastal Elite?
Is it where you live?
What you own?
What you don’t own?
Is it money? Time? A very good sweater?
Good question.
There are signs.
Question two
How do you become one?
There is no application.
No initiation fee.
No minimum net worth.
There is, however, a handbook.
Question three
Are you already one?
Possibly.
This has apparently been happening for some time.
Nobody bothered to name it.
Until now.
If you’ve ever referred to a rental as the house, your application may have been approved without your knowledge.
The Editorial Board has noted
“The view doesn’t know who owns the house.”
Make of that what you will.
There’s a handbook for this.
A deadpan guide to the people who quietly figured out that the old rules were optional, and that access to the good life, the coast, is the asset.
How to retire rich instead of . Fill in the blank: , , , , etc.
One way to find out.
Pick your copy.
Both out October 23. A Friday, so you have the weekend.
No spam. The board has standards.
Get in line.
Apparently there’s a line now. Leave your email. We’ll give you a number. On launch day we’ll send the Amazon link for Kindle and paperback, plus 15% off the absolutely must-have merch you were doing perfectly well without. Until now.
Cooper answers the mail.
The Editorial Board posts there. Sometimes the dog.
Live anywhere. Nice.