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View Poll Results: What county is your favorite?
Santa Barbara 7 35.00%
San Luis Obispo 5 25.00%
Monterey 8 40.00%
Voters: 20. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-16-2014, 06:04 PM
 
Location: California → Tennessee → Ohio
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Out of these 3 Central California Coast places, what one do you like the best?

Santa Barbara
San Luis Obispo
Monterey
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Old 05-16-2014, 06:10 PM
 
Location: East Bay, San Francisco Bay Area
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SLO County, for me.
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Old 05-16-2014, 10:52 PM
 
Location: Oroville, California
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Monterey. Lived there over ten years and it's absolutely the most sublime place in California, if not the country.
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Old 05-16-2014, 11:54 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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All are beautiful and it depends on what you want. A beach vacation to swim? Santa Barbara. Serenity and beauty? Monterey (which I voted for). Something in between? San Luis Obispo.

Monterey is near Big Sur and 2 hours from the Bay Area, so a convenient and pretty location.
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Old 05-17-2014, 02:10 PM
 
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Beauty wise, I would vote for Monterey County. It offers both spectacular vistas and very easy access to the rocky beaches. Great coffee shops, bakeries, restaurants, fresh seafood too. Diverse mix of people. Only thing is it is very expensive and you could probably live more cheaply in San Luis Obispo. What is your budget?
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Old 05-17-2014, 09:44 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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All 3 places are so expensive. Why not move to somewhere in Oregon or Washington? Much cheaper and equally beautiful, if not more so. The only disadvantage is that the beaches are way too cold to swim in, but on this list the only swimmable beach area is Santa Barbara, and just barely at that.
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Old 05-18-2014, 04:57 AM
 
Location: Overlooking the vineyards, olive groves, cattle and horses in the hills of San Miguel CA
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All 3 places are so expensive. Why not move to somewhere in Oregon or Washington? Much cheaper and equally beautiful, if not more so. The only disadvantage is that the beaches are way too cold to swim in, but on this list the only swimmable beach area is Santa Barbara, and just barely at that.
Been there done that... there's expense and then there's *value*... although all three of these Counties are rural in primary nature, they are on the Central Coast of California and profoundly different than OR/WA in HUGE ways like weather, population diversity, telecommuting job opportunities, culture, little things like that... IOW OR/WA are WAY the Hell and Gone culturally by comparison to name just one factor that distinguishes them as backwaters compared to Central CA coastal Counties... which mostly boil down to the Wolf's admonishment to Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta at the end of The Bonnie Situation act of Pulp Fiction: "Move out of the sticks fellas!"
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Old 05-18-2014, 03:01 PM
 
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All 3 places are so expensive. Why not move to somewhere in Oregon or Washington? Much cheaper and equally beautiful, if not more so. The only disadvantage is that the beaches are way too cold to swim in, but on this list the only swimmable beach area is Santa Barbara, and just barely at that.
I've seen the entire west coast, more than once. I don't think the Washington coast holds a candle to what you see in Monterey and other parts of Northern California. Parts of the Oregon Coast are just as beautiful but there are other factors that bring down the quality of actually living there, at least in my opinion.
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Old 05-19-2014, 05:41 PM
 
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Beauty wise, I would vote for Monterey County. Diverse mix of people.
Monterey is so diverse they have both the old and the elderly.
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Old 05-19-2014, 06:40 PM
 
Location: SW King County, WA
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Don't forget the rich and wealthy!
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