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*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. 
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It’s not that he bagged on SB. It’s that what he said was entirely devoid of facts. If he said that SB was lame and the people there sucked, it would be an opinion. He spoke with such authority and was factually wrong on every point. As an aside, Santa Barbara gets all of it’s water from Lake Cachuma and not NorCal. Nearly all of the NorCal water goes to agriculture.
His science stuff is similar. I have a graduate degree in engineering but am not an expert on rocketry. Nevertheless, he over extends a lot and states speculation as fact.