Please help me find a No Cal coastal liberal town (San Francisco: homes, university)

[ksheridan6]

...that is lovely with lots of cliffs. South or north of San Francisco, tiny, small mid-sized are all ok. It does not have to be commutable range to SF. My husband and I will both have very portable jobs (in health care) and want to settle in a liberal area, preferably heavy in the arts or homestead style living.

Thank you.

[Adriatica]

Humboldt or maybe Santa Cruz? Guerneville and Sebastopol might work, but they aren't right on the coast.

[ksheridan6]

Humboldt is near Arcata, is that right? I have looked at pictures of Arcata and didn't see much in the way of cliffs, but I will try Humboldt.

I didn't know Santa Cruz was a liberal town. Good to know! How about Half Moon Bay?

Thank you.

[ridestick66]

I second Santa Cruz.

By the way, its norcal not nocal

[humboldtrat]

Originally Posted by ksheridan6

I didn't know Santa Cruz was a liberal town. Good to know! How about Half Moon Bay?

Santa Cruz is very liberal town. The University of California has a campus there and the liberalism carries over into the city government and elsewhere. I would say Half Moon Bay is probably in the middle of the road - neither liberal nor conservative.

[wburg]

Originally Posted by ksheridan6

Humboldt is near Arcata, is that right? I have looked at pictures of Arcata and didn't see much in the way of cliffs, but I will try Humboldt.

I didn't know Santa Cruz was a liberal town. Good to know! How about Half Moon Bay?

Thank you.

fyi: Humboldt is the name of the county, not a city. The major cities are Arcata and Eureka. There are cliffs if you head north or south--lots of mountains--but the major settlements were on the flatlands around Humboldt Bay, for access to shipping and farmland. Arcata is about as liberal as one can possibly get (only city in the US that ever had a Green Party majority) and it's close to mountains, cliffs, and the ocean. The Humboldt State University campus is literally up the side of a hill.

[NorthernCalifornia]

Santa Cruz is insane, although cliff-laden. Cliffs, especially large ones, aren't that common in California and are mostly found in very isolated parts of the coast.

[northbayeric]

For a very small town, I would eyeball Mendocino. It's just down the coast a little ways from Fort Bragg. That region is quite isolated, and getting over to Willits from Fort Bragg involves about 30 miles or so of some really twisty driving.

The entire California coast from Santa Cruz all the way up to Eureka has always seemed liberal to very hard-left to me, so no worries about that. The drive along Highway 1 is spectacular regardless of whether you're a MoveOn person, a John Bircher, or anywhere in between!

[CMKM-Miller]

Move to Marin County if you want a liberal/marxist community. I would imagine Bolinas and Inverness could be good options. Bodega Bay in Sonoma Co. is on the coast but I'm not too sure it's political leaning, though I would imagine it's liberal.

[northbayeric]

Yep, Bodega Bay tilts pretty heavily to port. The hiking and beach at Bodega Head are a whole lot of fun as long as you bring a jacket with you! Great tidepools as well.