Hillary and Bill Clinton are substantially downsizing their Hamptons vacation this year by renting a home for a mere $100,000 during the last three weeks of August, reports The Daily Mail.
Though this is still a steep price for any regular American family — the cost is twice the average yearly household income in the United States — the Clintons are actually only forking over half of what they did last year for their Hamptons vacation home.
Imaginably, Hillary is attempting to make less of a cash splash on vacation after telling Diane Sawyer earlier this summer that she and Bill were “dead broke” upon leaving the White House in 2001.
The property features seven bedrooms and seven and a half bathrooms and is located on a buff boasting beautiful views, yet the home the Clintons selected is shockingly on the “cheap side of town,” writes Page Six.
The Huffington Post’s Blake Fleetwood, who lives in the section of the Hamptons where the vacation home is located, gave his own insight into the Clintons’ unusually cost-conscious getaway.
“Bill and Hillary are going to be my neighbors in Amagansett this summer. They arrive tomorrow,” wrote Fleetwood on August 5. “But, they are definitely laying low this August, compared to their fancier digs of years past.”
“Laying low” is certainly right. After all, just one half-hour of a Hillary Clinton speech would more than cover the housing costs of their three-week vacation. She can use what’s left over to shop at the grocery store and interact with fellow Americans. Talk about being economical.
Yet, the Clintons are stilling showing up the Obamas this vacation season. Hillary and Bill’s vacation destination in the Hamptons is valued at a whopping $18 million, while the Barack and Michelle are reportedly staying in a 17-room home on Martha’s Vineyard worth only $12 million.
