They are also home to highly regarded university campuses — Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, U. C.
Dan Witters, the survey’s research director, said Santa Cruzans ranked first in the nation on one question
that is a powerful predictor of overall well-being: 76 percent said they “learn or do something interesting everyday.”
“That’s a real vanguard of high well-being cities,” he said, “and they knock it out of the park.”
So what California city ranked lowest?
• How California’s biggest cities lined up: San Diego, 22, San Francisco, 31, San Jose, 39, Los Angeles/Long Beach, 53, and Sacramento, 68.
The California Today columnist, Mike McPhate, is a third-generation Californian — born outside Sacramento and raised in San Juan Capistrano.
California Today is edited by Julie Bloom, who grew up in Los Angeles and attended U. C.
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Maybe it’s no surprise that the Santa Cruz region was the highest-ranked metropolitan
area in California in the latest Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.
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• San Bernardino leaders sent a letter to President Trump asking for help in fighting crime, including marijuana trafficking.
