What you said about SF is true about most of CA ( in general terms and with the customary exceptions). 

People still say ‘good morning’ to strangers on the street.  No one jumps to checking out your political affiliation without getting to know you first.
People can know each other for a long time, just discussing the weather, family friends, dinner wines, books, movies,whatever.

It’s generally more politically and otherwise relaxed. 
It might be difficult for those uncomfortable with the suspicion that the neighbors might not be in  agreement with every political obsession  of theirs, however.
Too bad.

There’s a litttle bit of beach just south of SF that is hard to spot from the road and requires a pretty steep climb down to it, thus guaranteeing a good amount of privacy.
I’d love to go there again, whether it be hell or heaven.

I guess they are friendly if you don’t dare be a military veteran or a conservative.

You must have been in different bits than I Jason. In SF people are people, like they are everywhere. Though I won’t deny there is an anti-military and especially an anti-conservative atmosphere, most people will treat others as individuals, not as figureheads for their political views. One of the most prominent members of my über-liberal neighborhood, Noe Valley, is an old-style conservative, with pictures of himself with Reagan in his storefront (along with loads of GOP memorabilia), and he was, when I left years ago, hands down one of the most loved and respected people in the community, and probably still is if he hasn’t retired yet.

She lives in SF and DC.  She’s in hell already.

Hell? Oh no, just Sodom and Gomorrah

(ex-SF resident, I’m allowed to say that!)

I guess they are friendly if you don’t dare be a military veteran or a conservative. Then again, I know they are “tolerant” of “diversity” because they keep saying so. I’m sure their actions will catch up with their rhetoric by, oh, 2050 or so.

The redwoods were fantastic though. Too bad the aging hippies keep spoiling every experience with some new bizarre PC claptrap.