California, my entire life. Northern, to be more specific. a couple of counties north of San Francisco, not far from the Coast. Wine country, yeah, but more than that -- a place I'd like to live even if I didn't live here already. Nice to meet you.

I get that California isn't a country. It's just that it's different (culturally, etc.) from other parts of the U.S. , and Northern California differs from Southern California, and the Coastal region has its own cultural style, as well. The land, itself, along the Coast varies as much as the people who inhabit it. We are not a homogeneous group, for sure.