<p>Well, to be fair, Isla Vista is very small too. Imagine taking Davis, kicking all the adults out, squashing everything together, and having crappier housing haha. That’s Isla Vista in a nutshell. In Davis, you have Sacramento as an escape for big city life, however, at UCSB, you really only have downtown Santa Barbara 12 miles away (which is beautiful, and being a tourist town, it has a disproportionally high amount of activities, but it’s still far from a metropolis). </p>
<p>Isla Vista still has a lot to do, in part because it’s pretty much unheard of for students to go back home on the weekends. According to [this</a> research](<a href=“http://www.sariweb.ucdavis.edu/factbook/county/countymap0507.cfm]this”>http://www.sariweb.ucdavis.edu/factbook/county/countymap0507.cfm), the tri county area around UCSB only made up about 15% of the student body, so 85% of the students live about 2 hours or more from the school. As a result, weekends are packed and there are many festivals, concerts, and similar gatherings throughout the year.</p>