Meghan Markle and Prince Harry may be moving from Montecito to Hope Ranch, an affluent neighborhood of Santa Barbara, Calif., but it doesn’t seem like their potential new neighbors have any interest in rolling out the welcome mat.
After the rumors began, a Hope Ranch realtor told the New York Post that residents are concerned the pair, who left the royal family in 2020, will cause chaos in their quiet community. “The people that made the calls to me don’t want change and they don’t want all the hoopla,” the realtor told the outlet.
“People are not happy, that’s the word around town. They want them to stay in Montecito and not be drawing that kind of attention to Hope Ranch,” another realtor added.
Locals are worried” that Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, that Hope Ranch will turn into an “extension of Montecito.”
Hope Ranch residents have also not heard the best things from Harry and Meghan’s neighbors in Montecito, where they moved to in 2021. One insider claimed the duo asked how they could shut down a public road.
“It is really not right for streets to be closed down and things to be closed down. And that’s been very disruptive to a small beach community that’s used to being private,” the employee said. “People pay a lot of money to live here, you know.”
