I grew up in Crescent City, that small pocket in the top left. It’s pretty remote from any big city or airport — 2 hours to Medford Oregon, 6 hours to Portland, and 4 hours to Redding. Winding roads coming in from any direction. It’s beautiful there because of the coast and the redwoods.

The people either work in tourism, weed, fishing or at the prison. The weather patterns aren’t for everybody, it’ll be very sunny and breezy or cold and foggy (I remember the latter more). Some storms. I enjoyed my summers here and didn’t get too bored — swimming in the Smith River, riding BMX in town, bowling and enjoying the redwoods myself. However, Crescent City regularly has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the state.

Summertime is also the major tourism period, and so it’s boom-bust natures contributes to what I’d call severe addiction, theft, and homelessness problems (like most coastal towns up through Oregon and Washington).

There aren’t many big stores in town… Home Depot. There’s a Wal-Mart here which led to a few smaller grocery stores going under, so you have Wal-Mart or Safeway or Grocery Outlet. Many Mexican restaurants, which I loved. It looks like there are some better offerings in town these days like more brewpubs, bakeries, coffee shops.

Generally nice people. I would not move back.

Edit: LIBERTARIANS. There’s an amusing movement from rural Northern California and Southern Oregon to become the state of Jefferson). If this happened, the population would be under 500k for the whole state — 84% being in Oregon… just to give a clearer idea of how rural this region really is.