Back in June I had to do some work in Carpentaria outside of Santa Barbara. Let me start by saying the whole area is breathtakingly beautiful. I envy you who live there.
I took my 16 year old son with me so he could see the sites. We also went all over the LA area. Griffith Observatory and La Brea Tar Pits were his favorites (he wants to be a scientist). We do not hate California in any way. Would love to live there but can’t afford it. We live in Alabama with a 20 acre mini-farm and my taxes are only $400 a month. Doubt if I could make that happen in the Golden state!
Anyway, my son was a big fan of Carl’s Jr. We have Hardee’s everywhere here but it has about 1/3 the menu items of Carl’s. So, after repeated meals at the Carpentaria Carl’s, my son befriended the workers there, who were all Hispanic. He asked one of them if they lived in Carpentaria. The guy snorted and said no! He said Carl’s doesn’t pay enough for even a shack there. He and most of the others lived in Ventura, Thousand Oaks, Ojai etc. in cheap apartments and drove to work. He said that was true for almost all of the service workers in the whole area by the coast.
Correction, my property tax is $400 a YEAR.