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The Bay Area and Sacramento are very much like Pacific Northwest cities in that both regions offer a plethora of outdoor activities and recreation nearby, and a lot of residents take advantage of them. In my experience, though, the PNW cities are somewhat more closely tied to the outdoors - you'll find quite a few people in SF, Oakland, SJ, Sac, etc. who rarely hike or ski, while that seems less true in Seattle or Portland. But as Count David points out, the rest of NorCal is very different from the Bay Area or the Sacramento region and is very similar in many respects to, say, the Oregon Coast or the Willamette Valley depending on what city or town you're talking about.
The coast starts being pretty similar about around Mendocino, north up through Washington. On I-5, Corning to Redding is pretty similar, then you get into the Shasta forests and then the Rogue Valley, from Ashland north to about Roseburg, then the wetter, cooler Willamette Valley from Eugene to Vancouver, Wa.
That's just the basic arm-waving version, there are a lot of microclimates (rainshadows and the like) involved.
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The Bay Area and Sacramento are very much like Pacific Northwest cities in that both regions offer a plethora of outdoor activities and recreation nearby, and a lot of residents take advantage of them. In my experience, though, the PNW cities are somewhat more closely tied to the outdoors - you'll find quite a few people in SF, Oakland, SJ, Sac, etc. who rarely hike or ski, while that seems less true in Seattle or Portland. But as Count David points out, the rest of NorCal is very different from the Bay Area or the Sacramento region and is very similar in many respects to, say, the Oregon Coast or the Willamette Valley depending on what city or town you're talking about.
Can’t speak on people from the Bay because they’re much further away from any Mountains with snow activity but Sac there are plenty of people in the Sac region who Ski/Snowboard. With the closest ski resort literally an hour away from Sac it’s quite easy to have season passes and utilize to the fullest. Also there is plenty of hiking in the regions as well, however I do agree those cities would be more closely tied to the outdoors.
I've lived in the SF Bay Area most of my life, spent around 20 years in WA from the southern border across from Hood River, OR, to a tiny town near Mt. Adams, to Seattle and Bellingham and a tiny town right on the Canadian border. So, I feel like I can speak to what the PNW feels like.
The only place in CA that feels like the PNW to me, is Crescent City. Eureka and Arcata are close.
But, even Yreka and Weed feel more like CA than the PNW. The difference is that it feels more like CA gold country than PNW logging towns. And even though they do get snow, and it's somewhat similar to the eastern side of OR or WA, there is a difference. Not as much snow, different economies and cultures.
But Redding? Not at all. Way too hot, hardly any rain or snow, way different culture. It's more a CA cowboy culture mixed with equal parts of marijuana growers, with the whole Jefferson State thing. That's just not how the PNW is. So, wrong weather and wrong culture.
But Redding? Not at all. Way too hot, hardly any rain or snow, way different culture. It's more a CA cowboy culture mixed with equal parts of marijuana growers, with the whole Jefferson State thing. That's just not how the PNW is. So, wrong weather and wrong culture.
Is Medford in the Pacific Northwest?
Medford's summer highs are in the 90's, it gets about half the rain Redding does (18 in. vs. 35 in.), and about the same amount of snow.
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