Article: We're California dreaming Sholto Byrnes visits Santa Barbara, where the rich escape LA

In Santa Barbara, the ever-smiling sun bleaches the walls a shade of white that's as bright as the teeth of the Los Angelinos who spend their weekends here. By plane it's an almost sinfully short journey, barely 20 minutes from LAX. But those 20 minutes are enough to keep Santa Barbara separate. Its fortifications lie not in ramparts or castellated walls. Quite simply, you have to be wealthy to live here, so the blacks and hispanics who serve the town's inhabitants and visitors melt away with the dusk, leaving the god-fearing, surgically enhanced white folk of Santa Barbara to play out their perfectly buffed lives. This is where Ronald Reagan had his ranch.

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