*shrug* I grew up in NorCal so everything south of the Grapevine and Big Sur is all butthole country to me. They're the rich bastards who grab all the water and make the Delta sucky and unswimmable so they can have eighty million swimming pools. It's really just a matter of perspective, and I don't see someone dissing Santa Barbara to be unforgivable. Generally I find
Stranger's posts to be oases of sense in the general miasma of Durpiness.