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# Letter: Resident Says Santa Monica Has Become Too Tourist-Driven and Hard to Live In
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/030307-story-20070303-10/
- Published: 2007-03-03T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:11:32.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

“SANTA MONICA HAS TURNED INTO A little New York. The City Council has sold it to the highest bidder very much like Washington D.C. does. It is becoming almost impossible as a resident to live there. They have turned it into a complete Disneyland-like tourist town. I can’t believe that there’s a person dying from a heart attack every 30 seconds but it is just constant. I hear more sirens in Santa Monica than when I visit New York City.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 3, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/030307.pdf?ref=smdp.com)