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It is a mix, but the permanent residents are definitely not extremely wealthy.

This place is really a time share shithole where the loonies get to larp the prepper life.

Things they missed:

• there's a couple dozen permanent residents at the most.
• it's an active cattle ranch too. You might wake up to cattle on your roof.
• it's fully off grid, you have to build your own septic and electric. They have an aquifer and you can pay to have water run to your bunker.
• your lease gets you a bunker. God only knows what condition it's actually in and what former army munitions catastrophes have happened in it.
• the family that owns the surrounding property with the easement for access is internally feuding and hostile to residents (they're also the cattle ranchers).
• trash is taken to a "burn bunker" where yes, they burn the trash in one of the bunkers.
• nothing is permitted or inspected. And no self-respecting crew wants these jobs in the middle of nowhere to build non-standard stuff. These are the drunks and the swindlers that have burned every bridge on their way out. Their work is shoddy and substandard when you can get them to show up. And your 3 month build out might be several years in the building. And you won't get your money back once you pay up front. And a contractor might get you (and himself) killed on the way back from your night drinking hard enough to get kicked out of the bar.
• you can be evicted, and might not have any recourse to recoup the money you put into building it out.
• the "improvements" are laughable. They used former railroad fill on the streets. It is full of shit that will blow your tires out.
• no guarantee that an ambulance or firetruck will show up, and someone has to let them through the gate

Yes, I know a bunker owner. And yes, I have visited.