[latchkey]

> I disagree that the coastline is the only "nice" place to get a house

Maybe it is just me, but if I'm going to move to a beach city, I'd want to live at the beach.

> it all seems a little more tame to me than the same issues in LA/SF/Seattle.

It is just more spread out. The police are a lot more on top of pushing the homeless around to different parts of town.

Here at the beach, the parking lots will get a few people living in their cars/vans/whatever, then it'll get more as word gets out... then all the sudden, the police will come in and hand out tickets. Over night, they will all be gone.