California is just awful... I live less than 90 minutes from snowskiing, I have a choice of five or six different water skiing areas less than half an hour from me (in fact several years ago we went waterskiing on Saturday and snowskiing on Sunday), I'm 3 hours away from the most rugged and beautiful coastline in America, 45 minutes away from great pheasant- quail- dove hunting, 90 minutes away from San Francisco, arguably the most scenic city in North America, bout three hours from Yosemite, two hours from Sugar Bowl and Take Tahoe, an hour from the Wine Country, and, now that we have Indian gaming, twenty minutes away from the largest Casino in California.
California is a terrible place. By all means, please- STAY AWAY. It's horrible here.