Tell me about San Luis Obispo? (Los Angeles, Santa Barbara: 2013, neighborhoods, school)

[littletraveller]

Why do people move there? What industries are strong? What do people do for fun

[NYSD1995]

its a college town. There is no industry there.

[2011KTM530]

People mostly retire there. Also, it’s majority white and liberal politically. Very wealthy community and you have to be rich to live in the town. For fun, they do stuff that rich people do for fun. In other words, stuff that costs money.

[BobsGL1800]

The entire central coast of California has gotten way to crowded in the past 10 years. I'm looking to move, but can't figure out a good place anywhere in the country to move.
So if you don't mind the crowded conditions, come and enjoy.

[Davecali]

Beautiful

[Csonka]

It's gorgeous

A slight homeless problem but it's a beautiful little old California town and you can smell the ocean air, the weather is beautiful. Wine is grown around there and nearby

A quick trip to Santa Barbara, which is like a larger beach version of SLO

Quick trip to Santa Ynez area -- gorgeous

Quick trip to Paso Robles

Amtrak runs daily (I believe) to Los Angeles

It's also a Mission town, along with Santa Barbara. Mission towns have a particular charm to them

[Davecali]

It’s pricey to live but I live in Sonoma, so we aren’t far behind these days.

[alliance]

I’m doing an extended job in SLO right now, and am staying in Cayucos for a couple months. I absolutely love this whole area. I tend to split time between SLO, Morro Bay, and Cayucos depending on my mood and the daily temperatures. If it’s too hot in SLO on any given day, then drive to morro or Cayucos and spend some beach time in cooler, but still perfect weather. Like today, I’m heading to the Cayucos stretch of beach. And it doesn’t matter where you end up, literally everywhere is naturally beautiful and peaceful.

And while SLO may slant liberal, it isn’t in your face and judgemental, as I find in the Bay Area (where I still live), which I find to be a nice breath of fresh air. I have no idea about political affiliation by talking to people or even driving through neighborhoods (not) seeing candidate signs and bumper stickers (no Bernie bros stickers on pickups here). I don’t feel judged for having a differing opinion on matters, or looked down on for not thinking the way I should. I don’t care what “side” you’re on, just don’t shove it down my face and make a fuss over political ideologies. A huge positive for the area.

I’ve also found Cayucos to be more on the conservative side of things, but still equally older and white in demographics. Again, I don’t label people by their beliefs the way people do in SF, so I love that people are allowed to have opinions here and that they don’t have to hide what they think and believe.

The younger population is also more down to earth and they have a grounded background, as cal poly attracts more small town kids, being that it’s a land grant ag school. Being from Texas, I find this quite appealing. I miss the live and let live attitude of what you find in Texas, so this has been a breath of fresh air (literally and figuratively). These are just normal people going about their lives. I’m probably making too much of this, but after living in the Bay Area for so long, I forgot what normal people are actually like.

Big thumbs up from me. I’m considering staying to be honest, as the slower pace of life, natural beauty, and lack of far left negativity has done wonders on my physical health and mental well being.

[Astral_Weeks]

As others have stated: a beautiful college town. The challenge for many is finding a job/career in the area that pays well.

[Csonka]

Originally Posted by alliance

I’m doing an extended job in SLO right now, and am staying in Cayucos for a couple months. I absolutely love this whole area. I tend to split time between SLO, Morro Bay, and Cayucos depending on my mood and the daily temperatures. If it’s too hot in SLO on any given day, then drive to morro or Cayucos and spend some beach time in cooler, but still perfect weather. Like today, I’m heading to the Cayucos stretch of beach. And it doesn’t matter where you end up, literally everywhere is naturally beautiful and peaceful.

And while SLO may slant liberal, it isn’t in your face and judgemental, as I find in the Bay Area (where I still live), which I find to be a nice breath of fresh air. I have no idea about political affiliation by talking to people or even driving through neighborhoods (not) seeing candidate signs and bumper stickers (no Bernie bros stickers on pickups here). I don’t feel judged for having a differing opinion on matters, or looked down on for not thinking the way I should. I don’t care what “side” you’re on, just don’t shove it down my face and make a fuss over political ideologies. A huge positive for the area.

I’ve also found Cayucos to be more on the conservative side of things, but still equally older and white in demographics. Again, I don’t label people by their beliefs the way people do in SF, so I love that people are allowed to have opinions here and that they don’t have to hide what they think and believe.

The younger population is also more down to earth and they have a grounded background, as cal poly attracts more small town kids, being that it’s a land grant ag school. Being from Texas, I find this quite appealing. I miss the live and let live attitude of what you find in Texas, so this has been a breath of fresh air (literally and figuratively). These are just normal people going about their lives. I’m probably making too much of this, but after living in the Bay Area for so long, I forgot what normal people are actually like.

Big thumbs up from me. I’m considering staying to be honest, as the slower pace of life, natural beauty, and lack of far left negativity has done wonders on my physical health and mental well being.

There is a little "country" sophistication in SLO and around there. Which may sound counter-intutitive, but country and small town people will have a deeper appreciation and understanding of human nature compared to city people. Maybe because they are more immersed in nature, or have more time to think about it, but it's always the case. My larger point is that people in a place like SLO are going to understand that politics is always more a matter of taste than it is intelligence, education, knowledge. They used to call it one's "bent". Like a tree, it means you just grow or bend that way, and you can't help it. Just how God or Mother nature made you.

So you are judged as a person. Getting mad at someone for their politics is like getting mad at someone who doesn't like pizza. Why get mad over someone's tastes? With the city, especially today, there is this huge effort to correlate politics with one's educational level, so politics becomes code language for how far you went in school, with liberal politics equaling college and masters education and conservative equaling you never went to college. That's how city people want the world to be. It's all b.s. I see the same in Los Angeles.