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Going full pedant, the more pertinent issue with the house you posted upthread is that it's 8 miles from downtown and outside Santa Barbara city limits. No one in Santa Barbara would consider it a "Santa Barbara" house. Despite the zip code allowing use of "Santa Barbara" on the address, it's in "Noleta", the less expensive unincorporated suburban area between Goleta and Santa Barbara. Shithole is probably overstatin…
Thanks for the info! Yeah, I didn't realize the different neighborhoods. That first one you linked to must be priced based on building something new there. The Zillow listing even has pictures of plans for a new house. Here's a 2270sqft 3BR3B for $1.9M that I think is actually in Santa Barbara (looks like the edge of Riviera), although it doesn't really have a yard: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/533-Conejo-Rd-Sa…
How ironic that you now backtrack when someone else makes my point. You did no research, made a spurious claim, then doubled down.