This thread is such a cluster forget
Anyway, I've only lived in California for my entire life but I spent my first 16 years in the Bay Area and the past 4 years in Southern California (San Diego area). Most of Southern California has nice weather but looks like a desert. There's hardly any forests and even the ones that exist are nothing like the redwoods I grew up near. Northern California is a lot more lush esp. when you get closer to Oregon and politically it tends to get more liberal as you go north. IMO Southern California is stuffty, Bay Area and Northern California have a lot more to offer but that's just my onion *shrug*