Join us on our 3rd year for our celebration of fantasy, creativity, art, music, folklore, and more in the Danish Capital of America! Faeriefest is back with art installations, live shows, drum and dance workshops, puppetry, storytelling, costume contests, arts and crafts, and more!     Bring your favorite legends and fairytales to life 2 weeks before Halloween! Frolic in the faery ring among 10 gallons of bubbles, or join us in the evening for a glass of wine and masquerade ball. From creatures of the woods to pirates, to time travelers from the future that never was, we've been waiting for you to come home.

  The Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) has one of the top 25 concentrations of very high income households in the United States. Our MSA is 16th among some 388 MSAs in the country. That puts us in the upper four percent of MSAs.

   Notice that our MSA has less than half the concentration of very high incomes in Bridgeport-Stamford Norwalk, just outside New York City. We have a smaller concentration of very high income households than Oxnard-Ventura-Thousand Oaks to our immediate south. Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA, north of San Francisco, represents the lower limit of concentrations among the 25 top MSAs.
  Very high income is a relative term. Here it means incomes in the topmost five percent of all household incomes. The lower limit of the top 5 percent is $191,469 a year. Median household income in the U. S. is $50,502, so that very high income is more than three times the national median. 

  Household income is the income of the householder and all others in the household who are at least 15 years old.

  Median household income is the midpoint of all household incomes when all household incomes are arranged in order of size.

High income households spend more than other households on basics such as food. Households having income in the top 20 percent of all households spend nearly 55 percent more dollars on food than those in the bottom 20 percent. High income households spend more on restaurant food than do other households.

  High concentration of very high income households makes possible the availability of goods and services that are not found as readily elsewhere. Goods include luxurious houses, automobiles, clothing, jewelry, and household furnishings. Services include above normal numbers of offices of financial professionals such as bankers, brokers, and investment advisors.

  Another effect of high concentration of these households is to foster unusually large numbers of local non-profit institutions such as churches, clinics, schools, libraries, and museums.