Uncontrolled growth vs. a pleasant existence with H20

After both my wife and I completed graduate studies in the late ’70s in the Los Angeles area, the question became, “Where should we make our permanent home?” We looked around us in the LA area at the hubbub of traffic and the mass of individuals in close proximity to us in the LA suburbs and it was not a pleasant picture or thought for our future. We both had grown up in the beauty and solitude of North Santa Barbara County in areas devoid of smog and the clamor of uncontrolled growth.