I would say San Francisco. It is the most beautiful city in the US, and the weather is amazing all year long.
I can understand that you are aware of the expense living here, but are you aware that California is one of the hardest hit in unemployment because of the recession?I have been unemployed for 1 year and 4 months before I found a job (which I found last week actually.) So you better have a job ready before moving here.
Sunnyvale is good. There is good and bad everywhere.
bako is the only place i know (bakersfield i think) idk its where the band korn formed together and grew up soo yeh.
Your problem with moving to California is not only how expensive living here is, but also finding a job if you do come here. Unemployment in California is the second highest in the country (Michigan is the only state worse) , and jobs are practically non existent. Unless you have megabucks saved up to live on for an extended period of time I wouldn t come here without a GUARANTEED job offer. The places you mentioned are in Northern California which is completely different from Southern California. Some schools here are very good, but taken as a whole the school systems in California score poorly compared to the schools of other states ranking 37th of the 50 states. By the way, if you do move here PLEASE do not call our state Cali . Most of us consider that word insulting. It (originally) was intended as a way for people from the East Coast to compare our state to a drug city in South America, and it was meant as a put down . When we abbreviate our states name we call it Cal .
San Francisco is indeed one of the most cosmopolitan and beautiful cities in the United States. The weather is fairly comfortable most of the year, but the Bay causes fog to roll into the city on a very large portion of the days. San Francisco is near Napa Valley, which is very much a showcase sort of location for the beauty of Southern California. A place like San Diego is going to be a little bit smaller city with a more hometown feel to it. Think like Greenville, SC: just a good family-oriented place to live. While the weather is pretty spectacular almost all year round for most of Southern California, San Diego is bordering Mexico and it really will be 75 and sunny at least 340 days out of the year.Los Angeles will tend to have a somewhat similar feel to Atlanta. Both cities have an exceptionally large geographical footprint and tend to sprawl across the landscape. Atlanta is a newer city than LA and the LA architecture is obviously a lot more Southern Californian, but they have a lot in common in terms of things like really big 8 lane highways that still get jammed up with traffic; tons of strip malls; anything interesting is really far apart; the public transportation options are crummy; and no real character to any area of the city that really gives you a sense of where you are. It s all the same. For miles upon endless miles. Really, I think that LA has a lot of things that I don t like about Atlanta, only on a larger scale, because the city has a larger population. Hope my views on Atlanta and LA don t offend anybody living in either of those places.Don t know much about Northern California.