Before the election of *gulp* President Donald Trump, most people weren't all that familiar with his Mar-a-Lago club. Membership costs more than a normal house, and also Florida has alligators, so why bother?

That was the attitude before President Trump started taking little trips down there anytime he needed a weekend getaway, and now it's the public's business what's going on at Margs-a-Plenty. It's not unusual for a president to need to take a retreat to someplace like Camp David, but Camp David is kind of tucked away in the middle of nowhere. Mar-a-Lago, on the other hand, is situated in an area that around six million people actually inhabit. We sat down with some folks who live down there to see what it's like to live near the president's "second White House."

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Mar-a-Lago Is A Literal Island Of Wealth In A Sea Of Crime

Obviously, Donald Trump is a very rich man. He owns a lot of fancy buildings, and the people who buy real estate from him tend to cough up a lot of money for it. So for Mar-a-Lago to be Trump's favorite place to visit, it must be a very well-off area, right? Well, sort of.

"It's an island of money," explained Jim, who lives and works in West Palm Beach. "Get back on the mainland and it's back to lower-middle class."

"The part where Mar-a-Lago is is essentially one road with mansions on either side," continued Alyssa, who is from nearby Boca Raton. "All of Palm Beach is really nice."

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Just to give everybody a quick geography lesson, Palm Beach is home to Mar-a-Lago. Right across the waterway is the creatively named West Palm Beach. And while Palm Beach is an ideal place for rich people to live and schmooze, West Palm Beach has crime rates on par with Chicago, a place that our president may very well actually be scared of. According to Alyssa, the nearby Delray Beach "has a reputation for being the drug rehab clinic capital of the U.S." Lake Worth also has some major violence problems. So basically, if one of America's most violent cities decided to lay a medieval-style siege to Mar-a-Lago, they might be able to pull it off for a hot minute.