Most people cannot afford to live in CA.
Only about 7.5 million single family homes. The rest are apartments. 40 million people.
Today at my very modest home in Stanislaus county I picked 5 big artichokes and watered the Lemon, Orange, Peach, Plum and Olive trees.
Where else can that be done? Nowhere.
Between regular summer fruits and vegetables, there’s also a winter and spring bounty.
For the home gardener the harvest season is literally year round.
What no Sensimilla ?
I thought all you California Hippies grew their own pot?
I think most of us know about the weather in CA, but a lot of us aren’t home gardeners, anyway. So, instead of picking artichokes, lemons, oranges, plumbs, and olives, we do that at the supermarket and pocket the %5000-$6000 you pay each year in higher income, fuel, sales, etc. taxes and housing expenses. It’s all a matter of choice.