More recently, however, it has begun to feel more like Malibu, as film stars and the very rich erect trophy homes along its pristine shoreline.

Santee is not the New West suburb of tri-level trophy homes and three-car garages.

And believe me we're getting worse, with all the trophy homes they're building in Westchester as opposed to tucking our houses in the woods.

While Ms. MacLaine dropped her plan after intense opposition, the community has become highly sensitive about trophy homes being built on hillsides over the city.

Many of Mr. Moulene's clients own multiple trophy homes.

Many of the trophy homes that have become ubiquitous in the red soil around Sedona are summer escapes for Phoenix desert dwellers.

Steve White, hanging on to a nearly 100-year-old 150-acre dairy farm in sight of trophy homes sprouting in the surrounding fields, scoffs at the changing valley.

And how are the owners of those kinds of trophy homes going to observe Super Bowl Sunday?

At public hearings in Vail last spring, one resident drew applause when he said, "We want to look at trophy elk, not trophy homes."

But the local people drive slowly and grant riders a wide berth, especially as trophy homes give way to the farms of the island's hinterlands.