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# Santa Monica is a circus of fun
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/santa-monica-is-a-circus-of-fun/
- Published: 2002-10-11T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:47:05.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Environment, Downtown, #archive-import, Homeless

Last week, Q-line asked, “What’s so great about living in Santa Monica?” Here are your responses: ■ “Santa Monica is great. We have such great generous people here, the way they feed their citizens and poor people. They made a survey throughout the country, and 50% of people would pay more taxes to help the poor and the homeless. With religious groups it’s almost 90%. And we here in Santa Monica are so beautiful to help the poor and the homeless. Especially Herb Katz and his kittens. They are more than generous. I couldn’t believe they’re Republicans either. God bless Santa Monica, and God bless the generous people.” ■ “The Pacific Ocean and the Santa Monica Bike Path.” ■ “The greatest aspect of living in Santa Monica is the fact that we have the world’s best circus. It appears with the seven most famous clowns on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at City Hall. And we get to watch it on Channel 16, cable TV and listen to it on KCRW. So we are very blessed and fortunate in the fact that we have the world’s most famous circus right here in Santa Monica.” ■ “I’ve lived in Santa Monica some 70 years. If the City of Santa Monica wants to turn my home into an outdoor museum, then they should be, by ordinance, obligated to pay me the going price for my property with or without a house on the lot.” ■ “It is the best climate, it has better schools, and the circus atmosphere of our city council, which is a zoo of kooks.” ■ “Without a strong rent control policy and Santa Monica Renters Rights Organization to enforce it, I would not be able to respond to your question today. I moved here 23 years ago as a young single mother. I worked hard and continued my education to provide a quality life for my family. I am thankful for Santa Monica Renters Rights that I still live in my apartment with my daughter. If it weren’t for them, we would have been evicted a long time ago. I am thankful for Santa Monica City Council and it’s great Mayor Michael Feinstein and Mayor Pro Temp Kevin McKeown. Without their intelligence and caring leadership, this city would be just another tourist beach town. I love Santa Monica, and I am thankful for its governing city council and the environmental leadership that it has brought to Southern California and the awareness that industry and people and the environment can live together in harmony. I am also thankful for the Santa Monica Daily Press, that is also what’s so great about living here. That we have a Santa Monica Daily Press that will reflect the average persons views and newsworthy views in the paper.” ■ “My wife has put it so simply over the last fifteen years we’ve been in Ocean Park: We live where people want to vacation. It’s a beautiful, wonderful place Santa Monica, with a great set of resources almost on every level. I have a two-year-old boy, and we have such a great neighborhood. I am in the Third Street historic district and it’s a wonderful place to live.” ■ “What’s the best thing about living in Santa Monica? The climate! The weather!” ■ “The Pacific Ocean is what’s great about living in Santa Monica!” ■ “Thank you for the opportunity to say what I like about Santa Monica. One, the weather is great. You can walk or ride the bus anywhere you desire in town, you are close to whatever you may want to participate in such as entertainment, good restaurants, sports and so forth. Even though the homeless problem has gotten larger and we are a city really not able to cope with it, because it is more than just a local problem. It is bigger than Santa Monica, just as the living wage proposal is bigger than Santa Monica. We all must start thinking bigger and work for the change to be made more on a state and federal level.” ■ “It’s like hell living in downtown Santa Monica. Even the weather stinks the last two years. It was once the best climate in the world before then. Expensive isn’t the word. It’s a disgrace. The cold weather is probably due to all the useless driving that is encouraged by all the stupid events put on and the hundreds of thousands of idiots lured down here for no good reason. No sensible, useful stores exist in Santa Monica. Thank you.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 11, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/101102.pdf?ref=smdp.com)