Santa Monica, California dwellers enjoy a year round of beautiful climate. It is a city resort. Located in the Santa Monica Bay and bordered by Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades and Brentwood, Santa Monica City can also be accessed through the Santa Monica Airport.
The city is known as one of the leading sustainable cities in all of the US as most of the Santa Monica public transport runs on alternative fuels. The “Green City Resort” offers pedestrian friendly streets. The Third Street Promenade is a stroller's paradise as cars are not allowed. Multitude of restaurants, café’s, and performers are in the street. The Santa Monica white sandy beach is 3 miles long and offers a lot of activities. Swim, dine, stroll or just lay back and enjoy the sunset. The Santa Monica pier is the home of food stalls to enjoy the different foods. It is the home of the 9 storey ferries wheel where you can enjoy the city and the ocean sites at the same time. Festivals are often organized by the city guilds and this includes the Santa Monica Film Festival and the Tastes of Santa Monica.
There is no shortage of shopping as the Santa Monica Mall and the Farmers Market offers good buys and produce. The Santa Monica Museum of Art and the Santa Monica Heritage Museum are strategically located for the culturally inclined residents. Movie theater includes the Aero Theater and the Criterion Theater which were built in 1930’s. More than a dozen movie screens are also available in the Promenade Street.
The Palisades Park winds along the crumbling bluffs overlooking the Pacific and is a favorite walking area to view the ocean. A long stair case called the Santa Monica Steps is the place for your outdoor workout. As Santa Monica enjoys a cool breeze coming from the ocean, smog is far less a problem. A home for sale in Santa Monica is a better investment for yourself as you are investing not only on a property but also your own private resort. Santa Monica is the home of business giants like Lions Gate Films, the RAND Corporation, Dimensional Fund Advisors, and Business.com. Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Universal, MTV and Edmunds.com have already established their branch in the city.
Popular land marks in Santa Monica includes the Santa Monica Monica Looff Hippodrome that was built in 1916. and the Lincoln Park which was adopted by the band group “Linkin Park”. The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is a multipurpose convention center and caters for sporting events, concerts, meetings, awards shows and other events. It hosted the 1961-68 Academy Awards.
Notable private schools have also made Santa Monica their home. The Carlthorp School and Santa Monica Montessori School are among the few. The Santa Monica College is a community college founded in 1929 occupies 35 acres (14 hectares) and enrolls 30,000 students annually. The Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School, and the Art Institute of California — Los Angeles is also located in Santa Monica. The city of Santa Monica is consistently among the most educated cities in the United States, as measured by the percentage of residents with graduate degrees.
Hate crime has typically minimal in Santa Monica, with only one reported incident in 2007.