Sixteen-year-old Corey Sifter is plucked from his working-class home to become a yard boy on the plush estate of the Metarey family.
With time and encroaching urban development, some burial sites from the period have disappeared, hidden under huge rubbish tips or inside the gardens of plush housing estates.
But over on West Vancouver's Marine Drive, home to plush waterfront estates (one sold for $50m last year), the city's biggest realtor to Chinese investors, Clarence Debelle, says the new taxes are "driven by jealousy and envy".
But one morning as Wayne pulls out of the driveway of his plush Pittsburgh estate, he finds a nervous, badly dressed man waiting for him.
Based on the 2007 novel by Shannon Hale, the film stars Keri Russell as Jane Hayes, a thirty-something American singleton who blows her savings to cross the Atlantic and stay at a plush country estate where she can channel her inner Austen and, perhaps, find a Darcyesque Mr Right.
From this hilltop eyrie in Bel Air, LA's plushest neighbourhood, other estates belonging to the likes of Jennifer Aniston and Elon Musk look puny in comparison.
Napoleon Dynamite co-director Jerusha Hess's film stars Keri Russell as a hardcore Jane Austen fan who blows her savings to cross the Atlantic and stay at a plush English country estate themed around the celebrated English novelist.
Cocaine cash flooded the economy, fuelling a real estate boom of plush condominiums and shopping malls.
My favorites were Wölffer Estate Vineyard's plush, colorful 2008 Caya ($40) and its regular 2008 ($23), which was sultry and graceful.
A spool of lies to assistants in high-end retail, to estate agents of plush apartments, to work colleagues and to her boyfriend eventually begins to unravel.
