As someone else who lives in Santa Monica, the extra detail here is that it's so freaking temperate year round that you don't need as much heat/AC. We typicall

As someone else who lives in Santa Monica, the extra detail here is that it's so freaking temperate year round that you don't need as much heat/AC. We typically just ventilate our home during the day and don't run AC, we've never turned the heat on (I don't know if we have heat, actually).