WWYRL: California Edition

[Mr. Smith]

Had to be done.

1 and 2 should be obvious.

3 is pretty much Sac-town up to the end of the valley where the I-5 goes into the mountains. Chico and Davis are the main drags here besides Sacramento...although Oroville did get some attention after the dam broke.

4 Everything south of Sacramento such as Stockton, Fresno, Merced, Bakersfield, etc.

5 Everything west of the Sacramento Valley, but north of Marin County, biggest city here is Santa Rosa

6 Everything south of San Jose, west of the Central Valley, and north of Santa Barbara.

7 Everything east of LA and San Diego, but south of the Sierra Nevadas

8 The mountain ranges, biggest towns are along the 49 in Gold Country such as Placerville or Auburn, but Lake Tahoe is arguably the place here. Politically the farthest right area in the state.

Oh, and for salty plants, there's option 9.

[Kamala]

SoCal. I want that weather.

[The Govanah Jake]

The Northern Coast and the rest are not even close.

[Mr. Smith]

As a Bay Area raised man,...I have to go with the Northern Coast.

The Bay Area was a great place 20 years ago, but now, there's just too many people crammed in and everything's gentrified to hell, also the metro is a joke.

I detest SoCal (all of it) and its terrible weather, the Central Valley is even worse in that regard.

I do lurve me some Tahoe-y goodness, also some of the towns down the 49 are quite nice, but ultimately, I like coastline more than mountains....so that leaves the Central and Northern Coasts.

The deal-breaker is the redwoods and fog.

[JA]

The Northern Coast and the rest are not even close.

If Eureka was in a better socioeconomic condition, that'd be my dream place.

[Lechasseur]

I've never been to California, so I'm not familiar enough with it to say where I'd rather live out of these regions but I'm sure I'd much rather live in LA or San Diego than in the San Francisco Bay Area.

[kcguy]

Inland Empire

I have close friends in San Diego County--I was their best man--but the coastal areas are just too expensive.

Also, my company has an office in Palm Springs.  (Well, actually, one of the partners moved out there, and he operates out of his house, but close enough.)

[kyc0705]

Southern California (LA/San Diego) if money wasn’t a factor.

[Xing]

Bay Area for sure, though the Northern Coast is nice, too.

[TDAS04]

Bay Area for sure, though the Northern Coast is nice, too.