I suddenly realized I don’t know much about Santa Barbara. I mean, I’ve been a Barbarian for 13 years — I know how to face due south (some of the time) — but I really don’t know the facts and figures which describe our city. So, I took a census. Actually, I just looked up the U.S. Census. Here’s what I found:
People who need people: Using Census figures from 7/1/22 — if you were told that Santa Barbara’s population is approximately 1/9th of San Francisco’s, 1/5th of Oakland’s, and 3 times the size of Goleta’s, how many Barbarians would you say there are?
87,531
87,533
87,535
Whatever you picked — close enough. Recent Census figures suggest that it’s very probable that we will have lost, and gained, one Barbarian today.