Nah, Too many hippy-dippy agriculturalists and other rich people from when they were still cutting down the now non-existent Redwood forests. Plus they have way too many earthquakes and tidal waves to really relax enough to enjoy the coastline.
I'm about 90 miles inland and about the same south, in the center of the north state Sacramento Valley. Lottsa orchards, and where there are no trees there are rice paddies. Been home here for 40 years, but raised up North on the other side of the Columbia River, and attended College north west of you in the Willamette Valley. Always enjoy having a major river nearby, though the Columbia is more major than most.
I spent 4 or 5 months in Sacremento putting the Light Rail down Arden Way and wrapping around the Capitol. Didn't get to see much of the Sacremento Valley. Saw all of Sacremento that I could take.
I'm way north of Sacramento, in the "real" northern California.
I suppose that's all for me for now, of this chatting over the backyard fence.
Phone calls are backing up, and I'll probably have to do some of this objectionable stuff here in front of me, even though it goes by the innocent name of "work".
See ya later.
And thanks for the fun story-line detective word puzzle.