Inside the secretive waterfront town that's home to Bill Gates' $125 million 'Xanadu 2.0' and Jeff Bezos' $91 million estate

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Most of the town is equipped with surveillance cameras.

Forget about the Upper East Side of New York or Atherton, California, as bastions for the ultra-rich.

The tiny waterfront city of Medina, Washington, is where several of the world's wealthiest people live.

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Located just outside of Seattle, Medina is home to the world's top two richest people - Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.

But they are far from the only moneyed residents. The town's inhabitants include a number of other Microsoft bigwigs, tech entrepreneurs, and telecom magnates.

We visited to see why the sleepy town has become a haven for the 1%.