Everything fucking grows there, kikismom! Added bonus - plenty of shade (and not just the kind I throw!). Oh, and the locally grown foodie scene guarantees some very sweet farms and micro businesses that are ripe for foraging. I have an unreasonable fondness for crab, but the place teems with seafood and produce, and a plethora of foresty foraging (gotta know your 'shrooms, though). :-) Plenty of islands to hop to, if you're so inclined, and every type of watercraft & houseboat imaginable. Stay close to the coast and the winters are tolerable, too - but if you need some mountainous terrain to escape to, it's a stone's throw away, as is wilderness.