Santa Barbara, Santa Maria or San Luis Obispo?

[fairweathergolfer]

i just moved from west LA to slightly east of Goleta in between S.B city and Goleta city boundaries in the foothills above Cathedral Oaks (We are in Santa Barbara county legally). We are very, very happy here.

I do not know about Solvang, but do know a lot of people move there to raise their kids in a safe, small town environment. No matter where you choose here I do not think you can go wrong. Shoot me a message if you have any questions. Just stay away from areas too close to the college in Goleta. Would love to have you in our area . Go Red!

Originally Posted by shanezmum

Anyone know the most coservative areas near Goleta or solvang?? I am a life long republican moving from Southern Cal up more north and would like to live in a more conservative area...sorry to all you dem's out there

[Steppedinit]

SLO is pretty snobby too. I work in SLO, but live in Orcutt for affordability reasons, and really get looked down upon. Santa Barbara is just absolutely beautiful, but not for the average joe to move to if they want to buy a home.

SLO is also getting a bunch of big box stores. Already have Costco and Home Depot, and trying to get Target, Lowes and a bunch more. The city fathers are tired of Santa Maria getting all the tax dollars. SLO used to have a very nice traditional downtown, very midwesterny, but now is just getting upscale stores. SLO of 10 years ago was great, but now they are just looking like any other Southern California town.

Not aware of any traffic or smog problems in Santa Maria. Definitely has the poorest population due to all the field workers. Very poor performing schools too. Orcutt schools are much better.

Originally Posted by the city

Santa Maria has gangs, smog, traffic, affordible housing, middle and poor class, and lots of big-box stores. but it has good communities like orcutt around the city.

Santa Barbara has gangs, traffic, expensive housing, high poor population (small middle class), and not getting better.

Santa Barbara is building an Edwards Cinema, and they have 2 open-air malls and the downtown for upscale shopping. Then they have some other stuff to do.

San Luis Obispo has a Regal Cinema in Arroyo Grande, Movie Experience in SLO downtown, the Grad nightclub, sunset drive-in theater, a good clean downtown, an auto mall, a strip mall with gottschalks-cost plus-bed'bath'beyond', staples-and others, a regional airport, and pricing is almost as high as santa barbara. slo is a college town, so there is a middle and rich class.

paso robles has a lot more to do than santa barbara and san luis obispo. though it's at 29,000 population right now, it will be about 65,000 population in 2030. pricing is cheap, no smog and same amount of traffic as san luis, but more gangs. though, it's hotter in paso than the other cities.

[the city]

Originally Posted by Steppedinit

SLO is pretty snobby too. I work in SLO, but live in Orcutt for affordability reasons, and really get looked down upon. Santa Barbara is just absolutely beautiful, but not for the average joe to move to if they want to buy a home.

SLO is also getting a bunch of big box stores. Already have Costco and Home Depot, and trying to get Target, Lowes and a bunch more. The city fathers are tired of Santa Maria getting all the tax dollars. SLO used to have a very nice traditional downtown, very midwesterny, but now is just getting upscale stores. SLO of 10 years ago was great, but now they are just looking like any other Southern California town.

Not aware of any traffic or smog problems in Santa Maria. Definitely has the poorest population due to all the field workers. Very poor performing schools too. Orcutt schools are much better.

Santa Maria has good private schools, and Orcutt has good public schools. That's kind of the way it works until they build another school. There's also the charter school in Los Olivos, and u could also interdistrict transfer to Lucia Mar.

SLO is trying to get Target in Prefumo Creek Commons, Lowe's in San Luis Obispo Promenade, Macy's to replace Gottschalks, and then also next to Home Depot will be the Shops at Irish Hills with Kohl's. Kohl's originally was going where Target would have been.

The mid-west charm of SLO is long gone, and now it's become another urban coastal city. All though it has got a good economy.

[Mesawoman]

SLO by far is the best choice.

[AZCats82]

California as a state sucks, give it up already.

[NewToCA]

Originally Posted by AZCats82

California as a state sucks, give it up already.

You dug up a 10 month old thread to post this comment???

Regarding the original question though, San Luis Obispo.