Outside of California, where else to find "Cali Vibes" as they say (rental car, sales)
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This^^. Denver and Austin have Cali looks/vibes/feels, in some parts.
Also, and some folks might be surprised, but Nashville and to some extent, Chattanooga, have a lot of certain Cali vibes, in both house (newer) look and feel, the hills in each city and so many Californians relocating.
"California Vibes" are downstream of cosmic natural phenomenon and they cannot be replicated.
The fusion, like a chemical reaction of raw, unadulterated natural wonders of the world with massive, modern urban areas in a perfect climate by the sea.
A tattooed guy with a goatee kicking around a hackeysack at a craft beer joint that serves dog food in Austin or Denver doesn't quite get you there.
I agree with this. There’s not really a singular “cali vibe” imo as there are so many places in that state that feel so different.
Yeah, I'd love to see someone try to define that. A poster upthread mentioned "hippy/weird"...well maybe in 1970 but there are very few people like that in Orange County nowadays, but we're definitely Californians.
I think people really downplay how Texan Austin is because it leans left and has tech. It has UT, Longhorns Football, BBQ, TX hill country and blackland prairie landscape, Texas like suburbs and infrastructure, the state capitol, taco trucks, Tex-Mex. I could go on and on but Austin is a Texan city and doesn’t really remind me much of California other than tech (and I like it that way). Even the liberalness in Austin has a Texan feel to it (Austin isn’t the only left leaning area in Tx). Also most of the transplants in the city are not from California but from Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. I’d be willing to argue that Collin County gives me more of a California vibe than any other place in the state as it seems similar to Orange County without the beautiful scenery.
Austin is kind of dry and very hilly, lots of sage brush. It looks like OC in some ways. It's also not just left leaning. I think Biden got like 70% of Travis county votes, no not just Austin the county vote. Austin voting was closer to Portland than it was Harris County. Only the Triangle area in NC is more liberal.
Washington State also feels very Northern Cali to me in its vibe. Also a good amount of Cali transplants there too.
IMO, SF and Seattle don't feel that similar. It's a lot of things but a big one is that SF is so much more Asian/Chinese, like over the entire city. And the city has a much longer history and stronger urban bones.
Berkeley does feel a lot like Seattle though. And I get an Eastside vibe in a lot of the San Jose/Santa Clara Co. area.
The more inland areas of both states are the most similar imo. Oroville, Chico, Yuba City feel very eastern WA.
Austin is kind of dry and very hilly, lots of sage brush. It looks like OC in some ways. It's also not just left leaning. I think Biden got like 70% of Travis county votes, no not just Austin the county vote. Austin voting was closer to Portland than it was Harris County. Only the Triangle area in NC is more liberal.
It’s rainier than the major California cities for sure. It’s rainfall is pretty similar to Dallas and San Antonio. The eastern half of Austin sits in the same blackland prairie landscape as Dallas and San Antonio. The west side sits in the TX hill country which is unquestionably a Texan landscape not a California one. San Antonio shares this too. Also going by county size isn’t a good indicator when comparing Austin to Houston. Sure Austin is more liberal but not so much more liberal as the county margins would suggest. Harris county is enormous and the far exburban and suburban votes heavily dilute how liberal Houston is. Either way Austin is definitely more Texan in feel and not Californian.
I think the best choices are Phoenix (similar to Inland Empire) and Vegas. Even the PNW major cities feels different from California and has their own vibe.
Depends on what you mean by "California vibe," but having lived in SF, LA, and Las Vegas, I don't think Las Vegas feels anything like SF or LA, which are the quintessential Californian vibe cities. Vegas feels like a small suburban desert town once you leave the strip.
Probably South Florida on the east coast and that’s about it.
Growing up in S. Florida, the only thing we have in common with California is palm trees and beaches. Florida has more of a vibe like Jersey than California. Even the Latino culture is totally different.
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