Santa Monica was originally developed as a seaside retreat
at the turn of the 20th century. The railroad owners built the first version of
the amusement park on Santa Monica pier as an attraction to fill empty train
seats on weekends. Santa Monica grew into an urban, eclectic, and prosperous
beach city whose real estate values are amongst the priciest in the world.
Santa Monica is a very desirable city whose people are drawn to its
accessibility and its progressiveness as a community. Today, Santa Monica is a
mixture of very affluent, single-family neighborhoods, renters drawn by the
high quality
