santa barbara, ca

Yeah this rain is ridiculous. It keeps stopping for a bit, tricking me into going outside without my raincoat, and then starting again.

I get an email from the building manager whenever it's supposed to rain here along the lines of "weather models predict RAIN this weekend, please close your office windows and secure your bunkers from the RAIN"

santa barbarians also drive very slowly on the 101 in the rain, as if their 911 carreras would glide right off the highway because of a little rain

i did not pack for this

No deaths yet this time but still a couple of days to go

― caek, Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:01 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

saw a v serious looking bike accident today : (

That shit was LA unless you're playing me d00d

haha yes it was in echo park actually so it's not technically another SB fatality for me.

I tried to go to eureka burger on my last night btw but it was heaving via a live band in which the lead singer was wearing a trilby. I went instead to a place on state near velvet jones and the adult store, called sth like sana or para or rasa or something. Pretty good.

oh man. my apologies for nearly mraz-ing you. I wasn't aware that eureka burger had live music.

I've never been to the place you ended up. I've been meaning to check it out. I think it used to be a burger place called Momma Donna. Momma Donna had a peanut butter and bacon burger on the menu that was pretty good. But the turnaround has been very fast as both you and iatee have noted.

when you return to santa barbara, we should go surfing with kroemer or something btw

what is the place i ended up at called? it's not on gmaps. been trying to google it.

from your description of the location, I thought you were talking about: http://pacefoodanddrink.com/

yes that's it thanks

i'm jetlagged btw

it has kind of a strange menu. what did you end up trying? it has good reviews, but I remain skeptical.

that looks like a place that won't be there in 2 years

i only had desert, bread pudding. it was amazing. didn't like the beer selection. the staff were really nice.

xpost the turnover at that location has been swift. caek, you should've gotten the 24 oz PBR

and then you should have sauntered over to The Neighborhood and played beer pong on their PBR tables with more PBR

i actually should have yes. i suppose the location down there is a bit remote without being cutely tucked away.

I'm too old to drink anything but PBR. When I went out on Friday, I had 6 fat tires and felt awful the next day. That was at Dargan's, which I'm pretty sure is a legit irish pub just like the ones in ireland.

The photonics/materials UCSB grad students favor dargan's because it's apparently owned by an MOCVD grower

xpost. yeah, the 400 block seems to struggle. with the exception of Baja Sharkeez, which is a favorite of the undergraduates. Sharkeez has moved up state st. a couple of blocks now, though.

well shit

yeah. well this all happened in isla vista, which is a good 15 minutes on the 101 from santa barbara.

#califroniapedant

totally

thank you for explaining santa barbara to me kind sir.

anyway, shit

well shit

― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Saturday, May 24, 2014 6:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you really want to get pedantic the airport is legally santa barbara so it's 2 mins away

or we could get on that county vs city tip

you wonder if this guy goes on a rampage if he went to uc riverside, like watching his videos being surrounded by beautiful happy people was not a minor issue

should have gone to ND. Parietal rules and everything.

Santa Barbara revive.

Anyone from ilx living here/visiting here lately?

Should I move to there.

do u like fleeing fires

For context, spouse and I are planning to relocate from DC to CA in the coming year or two. Given that I abhor DC summers and spouse abhors DC winters, a year is sounding better than two years but housing market situation blah blah blah it could take a minute.

We visited LA and I vetoed because I don't want to do that level of car culture. Also vetoed because we have a 1000 pound complication: a horse that will be coming with us. LA does not have any close-in horse housing that meets criteria.

So then we thought OK, we will do Bay Area. Horse will live in Castro Valley and we will live in Oakland. Decided that we would really prefer to be in SF than Oakland, making the commute to horse a real bitch.

Recently more discussions about what really mattered to us boiled down to this:

• Excellent weather year-round
• Neighborhoods where you can walk to decent food shopping (farmers' markets, etc.)
• Reasonable proximity (half-hour drive) to horse boarding with plenty of pasture (I want my guy to live on pasture with friends 24/7 and not be jailed in a 12x12 stall 23 hours a day). Access to great trail riding.
• Excellent weather year-round
• Nightlife (bars, clubs, live music, etc.) not important at this stage in life. A good bookstore or two would be nice, a coffee shop or two, handful of good restaurants will do the trick.
• Excellent weather year-round

I love cities but for day-to-day life, excellent weather year-round and lots of horse time and good farmers markets--these have become increasingly important.

xpost taking sides: fleeing fires vs. fleeing Mike Pence as a neighbor

Oh I forgot that proximity to airports is also important. SBA will be fine for domestic and for international we can schlep to LAX.

well i mean if you can afford it i can't talk ill against santa barbara anymore and have been considering doing the same, when our jobs go away and maybe a trailer and a swift death by rising sea levels would be nice.

SB does have those things u require. Keep an eye on the city land/county land boundaries for when the fire does come and you have to hope the state can get mobilized in time. Also if you do research on the previous decade of fire management you'll see the cutoff pattern of where they set the evac lines.

Have you looked at SLO-MORRO BAY-LOS OSOS? IDK what your employment situation is/how important being near a hub is but that whole area is pretty and has all that stuff too (except maybe bookstore; i haven't looked lately. Santa Barbara has Chaucer's still, bless it).

ALSO re: airport domestic flights get cancelled later in the day fairly regularly due to backups w/ ATC at other airports - there is a good chance you will miss a connection or etc. We stopped flying into SBA direct and instead airbus to LAX, which hasn't let me down and is very stress free (and sometimes they send you up/down to LAX via PCH which is a very happy experience).

Ah good tips, thanking u. I guess I really do need to educate myself on fire sitch--especially since horse will be in the hills and I will need to have an evac plan for him. Is downtownish SB safe enough, fire-wise? Ugh why do all of the good places shake, catch on fire, flood.

yeah downtown is fine. basically foothill is the drop dead fire line tho the last few years it's gotten hairy enough for the greater san roque area to get mandatory evac notices. then mud slides:))))))))

have you looked in santa ynez valley? like if you don't actually have to commute may as well stay in the valley with ur pony

Santa ynez valley too rural by a lot.

It is not easy to be a city-lover with a horse.

Should have been a horse cop or something.

Also spouse needs a jobbie and I doubt there is much of a demand for IT operations folks in santa ynez.

My jobbie will hopefully come with me (remote work), so less of a concern for me.

Ya very good - wasn’t sure of ur commute situation.

SLO-MORRO BAY-LOS OSOS

My m-i-l lives in SLO and I would say it's not generally walkable, so I think you'd end up with a fairly narrow range of (expensive) housing options. Also, the airport has added a few more routes recently, but it's pretty hard to get there in a reasonable amount of time from, say, the East Coast. My partner and I often end up flying to LAX and then driving 3 hrs to avoid needing to make multiple layovers. That said, as a result of its relative remoteness, it's pretty chill and feels less ~intense~ than other parts of CA

YMMV! I think slo is very walkable; certainly v bikeable

We visited LA and I vetoed because I don't want to do that level of car culture. Also vetoed because we have a 1000 pound complication: a horse that will be coming with us. LA does not have any close-in horse housing that meets criteria.

did you look at la cañada/flintridge, altadena and then points east along the northern edge of the SGV, i.e. toward the race track at santa anita? pasadena in particular is relatively walkable, has a meaningful downtown, etc. "affordable" is a stretch, but pasadena school district (which covers pasadena and altadena) is not good, so it's not crazy by socal standards. if you're willing to drive 30 minutes to the horse, then glendale and south pasadena (different city to pasadena proper) might also be relatively walkable options with famer's markets.

i do not know the area at all, but given you care about the weather ... san diego?

Who were the jackasses that freaked out when I suggested Carpinteria to you that one time? Haha. Suckit, whoever you were

That was xp to quincie

Ventura/Oxnard maybe, cheaper than SB though maybe not as cultured.

Had to go to Ventura the other week. Seemed sort of grim. All I saw was strip malls. Didn't have time to poke around though

There is a smallish "old town" area that looks nice. And horse boarding may be available in Santa Paula, which isn't far.