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Laguna Beach Lands On Yet Another Best-Places List

Coastal Living magazine says Laguna Beach is one of America's happiest seaside towns.

The Laguna Beach Visitors & Conference Bureau must be thrilled ... the city has once again landed on another best-places list.

This time, its Coastal Living magazine's list of the Happiest Seaside Towns in the U.S. Laguna Beach wound up at number six.

Six? So who beat us? Would you believe such grotesque, inhospitable hellholes as Tiburon and Sausalito, California; Lake Bluff, Illinois; Naples, Florida; and the winner, Kiawah Island, South Carolina?

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Feh! Those slums can say what they want, but you know what they don't have? They don't have

Of course, these things are largely compiled by people who parachute in, spend a few hours making quickie observations ("Oooh, look, they're smiling, therefore everyone here must be happy!") and leave to make their deadline. That is, if they're not just Googling their way through. But hey, we'll take it.

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Meanwhile, we wonder where Laguna will rank when some pub eventually compiles a list of ...


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