I think all of California is wonderful. Yet, having read this thread, I'm beginning to think you need an influx of Minnesotans.

After you have a four foot snowfall.

Land use planning, good transportation, reasonable sales tax policy, good schools and colleges, and health care that is, if not any more affordable than anywhere else, easily found in Rochester. Where it snows.

A lot.

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