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