Charli
cool little "title"
Here are my impressions of Southern California and I lived in Northern California and the mentality is quite a bit different:
1. EVERYBODY is on their cellphones. You look left, you look right, and I mean everybody all the time are on their cellphones. Sure in Santa Cruz you'd see a few folks chatting away, but not like this. I mean everybody, including housekeepers are on their cellphones!
2. Aggressive behavior on road. I saw this back in '86, but boy, people yelling from their cars at pedestrians (we're tripping over that), honking, etc. Uptight people.
3. Friendly. I don't care what anybody says, just on our walk to and from the Promenade, people have said, "hello" or "good morning" or whatever. If we get lost, someone is always ready to help us. People ARE nice.
4. Weather. To DIE for. I'm going to get one glorious tan here.
5. Wealth. At the grocery store we see Mercedes, Lexus, Beemers, and those are SUV's. Santa Monica reminds me of North Dallas/Plano area.
6. Clean. Streets are clean, sidewalks are clean, the environment in Santa Monica from the Promenade area is very clean. We also walked back from Venice beach today and I was surprised how clean things were there as well.
7. Superb transit system. There's a bus coming and going every 5-10 minutes. You can get just about anywhere you want to and now that they have a subway system in the city (they didn't have it in '86), you can take the subway into LA and up to Universal Studios and Disneyland (plan on doing that soon). We took the #1 bus to Venice today and then just walked back, we're that close.
8. There is always something to do. If not in Santa Monica in Venice, in LA, in Hollywood, in Burbank. There is always something going on.
9. Health minded. A tremendous amount of people walking, young, old, in wheelchairs for God's sake. Whether in Santa Monica or Venice, you'll see them out early in the morning for a brisk walk.
10. Clean beaches. Santa Cruz's beaches were littered with algae. These beaches are raked and clean.
May I just say the view of the Ocean is freakin' unbelievable. Many want to move here because of the industry. I say move for the view, move for the weather, move because there is so much to do, and yes, there are apartments for almost every price range you can imagine.
My impression of Santa Monica, I think I've found myself a place I can finally call home.
1. EVERYBODY is on their cellphones. You look left, you look right, and I mean everybody all the time are on their cellphones. Sure in Santa Cruz you'd see a few folks chatting away, but not like this. I mean everybody, including housekeepers are on their cellphones!
2. Aggressive behavior on road. I saw this back in '86, but boy, people yelling from their cars at pedestrians (we're tripping over that), honking, etc. Uptight people.
3. Friendly. I don't care what anybody says, just on our walk to and from the Promenade, people have said, "hello" or "good morning" or whatever. If we get lost, someone is always ready to help us. People ARE nice.
4. Weather. To DIE for. I'm going to get one glorious tan here.
5. Wealth. At the grocery store we see Mercedes, Lexus, Beemers, and those are SUV's. Santa Monica reminds me of North Dallas/Plano area.
6. Clean. Streets are clean, sidewalks are clean, the environment in Santa Monica from the Promenade area is very clean. We also walked back from Venice beach today and I was surprised how clean things were there as well.
7. Superb transit system. There's a bus coming and going every 5-10 minutes. You can get just about anywhere you want to and now that they have a subway system in the city (they didn't have it in '86), you can take the subway into LA and up to Universal Studios and Disneyland (plan on doing that soon). We took the #1 bus to Venice today and then just walked back, we're that close.
8. There is always something to do. If not in Santa Monica in Venice, in LA, in Hollywood, in Burbank. There is always something going on.
9. Health minded. A tremendous amount of people walking, young, old, in wheelchairs for God's sake. Whether in Santa Monica or Venice, you'll see them out early in the morning for a brisk walk.
10. Clean beaches. Santa Cruz's beaches were littered with algae. These beaches are raked and clean.
May I just say the view of the Ocean is freakin' unbelievable. Many want to move here because of the industry. I say move for the view, move for the weather, move because there is so much to do, and yes, there are apartments for almost every price range you can imagine.
My impression of Santa Monica, I think I've found myself a place I can finally call home.
