Let me stipulate at the outset, I love many things about Santa Barbara, but I could do without many of its residents. Before I’m run out of town for suggesting what many are too intimidated to say, let me first state unequivocally that Santa Barbara is a great place to live. It’s been my home for 33 years, and for most of that time there hasn’t been another place I would have wanted to live.
As much as I love this city, it pains to me to say that I increasingly feel alienated by the overabundance of meddling busybodies who think they know what’s best for all their neighbors and are never afraid to stick their noses into everyone’s business, even when they have no idea what they’re talking about. It really sticks in my craw to have tone deaf, insufferable, and sanctimonious know-it-alls lecture me about my white privilege or moral indifference.
To be perfectly clear, it doesn’t bother me that a majority of the citizens of our fair city don’t share my political views, inasmuch as I don’t expect, nor do I want, conformity of thought. What does bother me is the blatant hypocrisy and constant lecturing from people who routinely don’t observe their own rules.
