Sounds like Santa Barbara where my brother lives. He & his wife found this place up a mountain around 2...3...4 million dollar homes and they rent on the cheap and live in this utterly glorious landscape where they can see ocean and mountain and sunset from their front room. Anyway sounds like you saw that M Night Shamylan sp? movie with Mark Walberg. I didn't see it but keep seeing the previews on my "Jumper" DVD where the bees start disappearing then humankind starts disappearing. Sorry just a little stream of consciousness there.