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Originally Posted by rlmesq
I have a four mile commute to my office. If traffic is really busy, it takes ten minutes.
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That's because you are in a part of California that few people know about and nobody (relatively) lives in.
Somewhere between 2/3 - 3/4 of the California population are in the Bay Area and the greater LA area (including going down to San Diego). Throw another 2-2.5M in the Sacramento area and you are down to maybe 7M people spread out through the remainder of a quite large state.
I always found it funny that most people (even Californians) consider the Bay Area to be Northern California, although it is much more accurate to consider it a part of Central California. There is a whole lot of very magnificent country north of the greater Bay Area!
Of course there aren't a whole lot of jobs in those areas either.
I spent a fair amount of time in both Oroville and Chico back in the 70's and always loved it up there. Definitely one of the better places to live in CA.