I hate Santa Barbara (Bakersfield, Lancaster: moving, land, Walmart)

[stevemack]

LA.. very crowded. i just take a chance and say that it is better to choose SB (lovely place with good atmosphere)

[Mossy]

Originally Posted by razorback_06

It sounds like you have a personal problem. May I suggest Scranton, PA.

Why Scranton?

[sourdough]

I was in SB for a couple years in the late '80's. Nice weather. IMHO that was the best thing about it... Oops, my mis-speak. Met my wife there, which is the best thing that ever happened to me. To bad she wants to move back now. I don't think I will...

[sjnative]

Originally Posted by rachelinala

And it's making me want to leave California for good. I adored San Francisco, so maybe I'll just go back up there for my next job.

In one sentence, you want to leave CA for good and in the next, you want to live there.

I think this typifies the "I want to leave CA.. I don't like CA" attitude. It's often based on one city or one regional experience while ignoring the rest..

The OP's epiphany in the next sentence- that there is more than one region of CA- is sadly rare as most people stop thinking after the first sentence and the rest of the post is just a diatribe.

[Seacove]

Originally Posted by Jasmine728

Stanford is about 30 miles from San Francisco.. so was it Palo Alto that you loved or SF?

I thought the same thing reading this. Palo Alto is quite nice but what is the OP really comparing? It doesn't sound like it's SF

[Menina2]

When I moved to SB I also did not like the city at all... but for totally different reasons: it's small, fairly conservative, not very racially diverse. Let#s put it this way: it's too white! That#s the problem with SB. You can't compare it with LA or SF. SB doesn't even have 200,000 people living in it! I like big cities with people from different ethnic and racial backgrounds, so SB was not it. However, I got to make great friends there overtime. the good thing is: you meet tons of people in SB that hate SB, so there is solidarity going on, especially among graduate students...!
Yes, the beach is not clean... but considering how cold the water is, I wouldn't swim in Cali anyways.
As a UCSB student I must disagree with you on the campus: have you even looked inside the buildings? How is the U-cen run down, how is the engineering/marine biology buildings ugly and cheap? The lagoon in front of the beach is beautiful... UCSB campus is a good place to read, study, and focus away from the hokus-pokus. Now, of course there is poverty in SB... what did you expect? And trash in State Street get polished every day in the early morning... of course by Mexican immigrants. Same thing with the houses in Montecito.... the poor are always there where the rich use their services, for cheap.
And you seem to be a myopic arrogant elitist yourself actually, so I wonder why you don't like SB. It should be the perfect place for you!!! Not sure about your "dumb" comment, what you affirm seems all quite dumb to me.

[Highnlite]

not very racially diverse. Let#s put it this way: it's too white! That#s the problem with SB

That is why it has such a great hispanic gang problem?

but considering how cold the water is, I wouldn't swim in Cali anyways

Cali has no beach, it is inland.

[Oerdin]

Originally Posted by NorCal Dude

Yea the thread seems insane. Sb is lovely.

I loved living there.

[the city]

Santa Barbara beats San Francisco in my mind. More nice people in the central coast, the beaches r nicer in my mind, and the shopping is decent for the size of the city. The school is awesome compared to others and doesn't matter if the campus looks old because the education is what counts. The people might be weird there because it's a college controlled economy. I guess you don't like college towns?

[ghost123]

Originally Posted by Capt. Dan

Flint Michigan
Yazoo City Mississippi

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Yeah - go to Scranton, PA! lol