Chapter 10, The Southern Coastlands: On the Subtropical Margin

If we think about the southern coastland of the Bay Area, it would include San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties.  Unlike the subtropical environment that the southern coastland has, the bay area has a more similar environment to maybe Oregon or Washington.  Southern California has an equivalent climate, but unfortunately it is not in my blog's region. 

The text had mentioned that California produces more lemons and naval oranges than Florida.  According to pearsonranch.com, California is the largest producer of eating oranges, while Florida is the largest producer for juice oranges.  Lemons are also plentiful to California.  Grown mostly in the San Joaquin Valley, the California lemons are of great quality and flavor.  Eureka and Lisbon Variety lemons are mostly produced in California, while Florida grows Sicilian type lemons.

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When we here the word "sugarcane" we immediately think of either Florida or Hawaii.  But California should also be included into that list.  Crockett, CA (35mi. north-east of San Francisco) is an unincorporated city in Contra Costa County, and it is home to C&H Pure Cane Sugar headquarters.  The refinery at Crockett refines, packages, and markets all of the output from Hawaii's sugar factories.  If you did not already know, the C&H stand for California and Hawaii.  
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Florida is known as a sort of retirement area.  People over the age of 60 had populated 22% of the state.  In the bay area, there are not too many retirement facilities or neighborhoods that would compare in scale to Florida.  When we look at San Francisco on a global view we have the perception that it is a progressive city with high technology and great universities to help along the young minds of the future.  It is projected that by the year 2020 the elderly population aged 60 and over will be a percentage increase of 50-99%.
 http://www.aging.ca.gov/