Southern CA didn't seem to interest me much. It pretty much all looked the same to me when I was out there. It was all a combination of traffic, brown buildings, and once you got out of the cities, sand and low brush. Not very appealing, really.

Plus it's a bit weird how everyone seems to speak spanglish. Even the TSA agents who check your luggage at the airport. It doesn't give me a good feeling when I'm asked by the baggage checkers at the airport (LAX in this case) if I have a gun in my luggage and I don't even understand what they are talking to me about. (answer wrong, and you might not make it home....)

I think that the more northern the location, the better.