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# Santa Cruz
- URL: https://cutelittlepaperblog.com/santa-cruz/
- Published: 2020-07-11T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:34:59.000Z
- Author: Katherine Leung
- Tags: California, US & Canada

Santa Cruz has a cult following around the Bay Area. Everyone has a bumper sticker of The Mystery Spot. Well, it seems that way. I finally got to visit. It definitely reaffirmed that Santa Cruz has a strange energy to it, not in the sense the attraction advocated about, but in the attitude that people living here share about it.

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Since then, I’ve only been back once. It is kooky, laid-back, and I understand why so many people move there for a breath of fresh air.