I hate Santa Barbara (San Diego, San Francisco: unemployment rate, school, taxes)

[jillz]

Originally Posted by rachelinala

What a waste of $200! Not to mention bad service. Another overrated & overpriced place here in Santa Barbara. Just like the disgusting "taco stand" La Super Rica!

I just figured it out. You have no taste whatsoever. La Superica is fantastic and has been in SB forever. It has been written up in Sunset magazine and when Julia Child was still alive, she was a regular. As were Jackson Brown, Darryl Hannah, and loads of other celebrities. The line out the door every weekend is an example of how popular it is.

If you hate it, leave. There are plenty of us that love it. I am not sure what you gain by writing what you are about Santa Barbara. Maybe it isn't for everyone but you seem like you are he** bent on hating every aspect of it.

[jillz]

Originally Posted by youngmoney

I agree with original post - Santa Barbara is a millionaire's ghetto, and overrun with bums. The natural area is beautiful, but the graffiti and trash are not. Is there even a WalMart in SB? .

NO! And that is a good thing!

[Twinkle Toes]

Originally Posted by jillz

NO! And that is a good thing!

What? Are you saying SB doesn't have that fine, upscale store known as Walmart???

That right there's a shocker!

[jillz]

Originally Posted by Twinkle Toes

What? Are you saying SB doesn't have that fine, upscale store known as Walmart???

That right there's a shocker!

HA! Someone tried to put a Target in Goleta and that got shot down big time. Most people around here just don't want a big box store. The only reason Costco got in was because it was before Goleta was actually a city.

If I want to buy cheap stuff made in China, I have to drive to either Ventura or Santa Maria. BOO HOO!

Jill

[Twinkle Toes]

I am tired of big box stores. You drive through any town, anywhere and one intersection looks like the last with the very same stores and strip malls. There is nothing unique or quaint about a big box. Where are the boutiques? We have them where I live, but they grossly overprice the merchandise. I've gotten to the point (for several years now) where I make my own unique clothing and accessories. I've made a few of my own ballgowns and I love to create. I might have to open my own boutique one day.

[mading6]

What does the make of your car have to do with wealth? Almost anyone besides poor and sometimes them also can afford a bmw, audi, mercedes, infiniti, whatever.

And you want to brag about your Audi and bash it against Cadillacs, etc. what really is the point. I am sure your Audi is an A4.

A lot of very wealthy people I know drive the cheapest cars.

[SOON2BNSURPRISE]

Jills and Twinkle Toes, you two crack me up. I have to add that I doubt few people visit Santa Barbara so that they can go to the local Wal-Mart. I am not into wine or anything, but do you travel to Napa to visit a big box store? Do you go to Hawaii in search of that next got to have plastic item from China?

Everything has its place in the world. Wal-Mart seems to work for Oxnard. When I visit Santa Barbara I prefer a nice resteraunt like I don't know, maybe La Superica. (Actually I prefer getting something at Stearns Wharf.) Does anyone ever visit Santa Barbara so they can shop at a Target or Wal-Mart?

[happ]

Originally Posted by SOON2BNSURPRISE

Jills and Twinkle Toes, you two crack me up. I have to add that I doubt few people visit Santa Barbara so that they can go to the local Wal-Mart. I am not into wine or anything, but do you travel to Napa to visit a big box store? Do you go to Hawaii in search of that next got to have plastic item from China?

Everything has its place in the world. Wal-Mart seems to work for Oxnard. When I visit Santa Barbara I prefer a nice resteraunt like I don't know, maybe La Superica. (Actually I prefer getting something at Stearns Wharf.) Does anyone ever visit Santa Barbara so they can shop at a Target or Wal-Mart?

Due to Wal-Mart's anti-union policies\ extremely poor employee benefits, it has been strictly limited where it is allowed in LA [probably none in the city limits - both Inglewood & Baldwin Pk fought & won to keep Wal-Mart out

[that1guy]

I personally miss Isla Vista. It was a walkable safe area with actually a lot of culture. I miss the Pacific right out my front door and being able to walk practically everywhere. I miss Santa Barbara's ecletic nature. One minute SB is snobbish and rich, the next rugged and untamed, then following that it's an immigrant enclave, it again changes to a bohemian enclave, and finally an old fashioned mid-western college town with a California twist. It has the personality of a city three/four times its size. Personally, I think it's a shame that people try to equate it to Laguna or Beverly. It's not. It may be an affluent area, but it is also a not a suburb. It is the Central Coast's main city area. It is not an affluent suburb of Los Angeles. This is why there is that dichotomy. This is why State/Hollister runs the gamet from lower middle class (Old Town), to upper class (Upper State). I am happy though that people that want Walmarts and want a sterile Santa Clarita on the coast, or a more northern version of Laguna Beach...well they all leave. It keeps Santa Barbara weird.

[Winston Smith]

Originally Posted by that1guy

I personally miss Isla Vista. It was a walkable safe area with actually a lot of culture. I miss the Pacific right out my front door and being able to walk practically everywhere. I miss Santa Barbara's ecletic nature. One minute SB is snobbish and rich, the next rugged and untamed, then following that it's an immigrant enclave, it again changes to a bohemian enclave, and finally an old fashioned mid-western college town with a California twist. It has the personality of a city three/four times its size. Personally, I think it's a shame that people try to equate it to Laguna or Beverly. It's not. It may be an affluent area, but it is also a not a suburb. It is the Central Coast's main city area. It is not an affluent suburb of Los Angeles. This is why there is that dichotomy. This is why State/Hollister runs the gamet from lower middle class (Old Town), to upper class (Upper State). I am happy though that people that want Walmarts and want a sterile Santa Clarita on the coast, or a more northern version of Laguna Beach...well they all leave. It keeps Santa Barbara weird.

Everything that1guy said! Particularly the sentiment that Santa Barbara is not -- and hopefully never will become -- Laguna, Beverly or "Santa Clarita on the coast."