Climate change, please, and yes, like an iceberg detached from the coastline of Buffalo or Cleveland, California is arriving on our shores.
Shon - you're right - there is lots of beautiful, more authentic (often old) Spanish colonial in California, including a fair bit in Santa Barbara. When I leveled my swipe I was thinking of those Spanish colonial suburban tract houses that feature in films like ET, ETc. I don't hold out much hope that the California condos here will resemble, say, LA's gorgeous Mission style Union Station for example. I rather expect that this California will look as Californian as Malibu, which while not a bad building, certainly did not arrive on our shores from that particular bit of Pacific surf.
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