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Facts About Santa Barbara

The average age among Santa Barbara residents is about a gazillion.
Santa Barbarans don't like Los Angeles.
You can't afford to live here.
That is Los Angeles' fault.
Everything bad about Santa Barbara is Los Angeles' fault.

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Santa Barbara

This is a stupid page thus far and I apologize...

I grew up in this silly little town so I thought it would be a piece of cake to write about, but I seem to have writer's block. Anyway, below is a picture of the pier. Every once in awhile it burns down and they have to rebuild it.

The restaurants on the pier are notoriously overpriced and the food is usually lousy. If you want to eat on the water, go to Brophy Bros... that's where all the locals go. I can't tell you where it is though, because if too many out-of-towners show up they may trace it back to me and then they'll change the secret handshake and I won't be allowed back to SB. Just be aware that it is well hidden, always packed, and they put up a few decoy restaurants along the way to snag the slightly less determined.

Santa Barbara Pier On a Sunday Afternoon.
The very touristy pier at the foot of State Street in Santa Barbara.

Santa Barbara is often on fire, as seen above in this lovely picture of the nice Santa Barbara mountains plus a huge cloud of smoke. Santa Barbarans secretly love these fires because they burn down their old 60s and 70s ranch style homes and allow them to rebuild nice big houses with red-tile roofs.