In Reference to the I Hate Santa Barbara thread... (Davis: top, east coast)

[Bluesbabe]

I prefer Santa Cruz. I even prefer Pismo Beach, although it's smaller.

[SOON2BNSURPRISE]

Snort, thank you for posting a picture of the area.

[fairweathergolfer]

Originally Posted by Scott5280

Boulder Colorado is a pretty fair comparison to Santa Barbara: beautiful surroundings,liberal, affluent college town. Pop. 93k..

LOL. Boulder Colorado is a radical, hippy town whose beauty does not compare to the mountains and ocean dramatically intersecting with one another in a lovely village of extraordinary architecture as Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara has affluence that Boulder couldn't fully comprehend. Santa Barbara additionally has a variety of types of people and is considerably more multicultural. Santa Barbara has year round lemons, limes, oranges, grapefruits, olive and avocado trees, palm trees, beaches, greenery (not part of the year brownery like Boulder), and sun. Santa Barbara is a colorful city that retains the beauty of her past and rich offerings of the present. Boulder has four seasons and no ocean. There is not even a FAIR comparison. So you just take your itty bitty, chipped marbles and go home. LOL.

[fairweathergolfer]

To Scott5280. I couldn't edit this last thought as I was past my 90 minute time, but I wanted to say to you: the latter is me teasing you. You sound like a decent, smart guy. Glad you 'brought it' to the thread. You are just wrong that is all. :-)

I am sure Boulder is lovely. Just doesn't compare to Santa Barbara.

[fairweathergolfer]

To Scott5280. I couldn't edit this last thought as I was past my 90 minute time, but I wanted to say to you:

I wanted to make sure you understood the latter is me teasing you. You sound like a decent, smart guy. Glad you 'brought it' to the thread. You are just wrong that is all. ;-)

Boulder is a nice place. Just doesn't compare to Santa Barbara.

[Scott5280]

Originally Posted by fairweathergolfer

To Scott5280. I couldn't edit this last thought as I was past my 90 minute time, but I wanted to say to you:

I wanted to make sure you understood the latter is me teasing you. You sound like a decent, smart guy. Glad you 'brought it' to the thread. You are just wrong that is all. ;-)

Boulder is a nice place. Just doesn't compare to Santa Barbara.

I should have read the thread title closer, "it says more beautiful."-however I am hardly the first person to make the comparison between Santa Barbara and Boulder in terms of land use planning, attitude,and politics. Having lived in both towns myself at various times not only have I personally witnessed many similar attributes to the people ;I have also encountered the same actual people who have moved from SB to Boulder or visa versa..Yes, of course I am aware of the economic differences between the towns--mainly it's housing prices, but many of the so called hippie-crits in Boulder are hardly pan handling out of their Range Rovers..Boulder boasts the highest educated population of any US. town or city and it is well known for it's cutting edge technology and ecological preservation--also one of the fittest and athletic towns ANYWHERE.UCSB brings in some pretty firm competiton with respect to those studies as well.I wasn't trying to assert that Boulder was some how better than SB or more beautiful--just very,very similar in many ways; I have considered moving back to SB from my home here in Denver, but I have to live in town here for family reasons..I have always enjoyed the fantastically beautiful greenery/lush mountain back drop that is Santa Barbara--I agree it really is a paradise to which I will return many times. Perhaps in terms of shear beauty and affluence Telluride, Aspen would be closer examples of comparative Colorado towns--although the AVERAGE housing prices in Aspen at over seven million and over $2200 psf make both SB, and even Malibu seem reasonable..And no big surprise that you won't find a Wal-Mart in Aspen either, nor in Boulder. How does it become the ultimate deal breaker for people to decide on where to live dependent on the location of Wal-Mart? The population of Santa Barbara is very lucky to have such gorgeous surroundings,Channel Island Sea Lions and all.

[Snort]

Scott,
By mentioning Telluride, you reminded me of Durango. That's a very pretty town!
Still doesn't draw me in like SB does though.

[silver47ag]

I would like to know of towns as well maintained and planned as Santa Barbara in the Hawaiian Islands. I will be moving there after sailing from New Zealand to Fiji, New Caledonia and Australia. Santa Barbara was one of my favorite cities I've ever lived in and though i want warm weather I'm searching for similarly maintained coast towns in the US (Hawaii in particular)

[MtnSurfer]

Easy,

Carmel, Pebble Beach, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Santa Cruz, Rancho Palos Verdes, Brookings, Port Orford, Bandon, Cannon Beach, Portland OR, Aspen, Telluride, etc...

Derek

[zagyzebra]

OK, if you're willing to travel away from the coast, check out Ashland just above the Cali border in southern Oregon. In an absolutely, incredible beautiful valley, known as the Rogue Valley, ringed by mountain ranges, rolling hills and vineyards, threaded with rivers, dotted by lakes, incredible organic scene, sustainability, back-to-earth high-culture people. It's got it all...good restuarants, beauty, culture, theatre, reasonable population base spread throughout the valley so attracts good music acts, etc.