I lived on the East Coast a few years and was amazed at how little people outside the West understand about CA.
It is bigger than Japan
The cities of San Francisco, Boston, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, St. Louis and Clevelandplus the island of Manhattan can fit within the Los Angeles city limit simultaneously. You can fit another 8 or so "major" cities within the rest of the county of Los Angeles. Next county over from L.A. is San Bernardino County which dwarfs L.A. county geographically, if not in population.
They assume the weather is the same throughout the state.
They assume 2-3 big fires in remote areas affects the whole state. Those fires are usually hundreds of hundreds of miles from populated areas.
They assume the terrain is all the same - we have deserts - Joshua Tree, High desert, and Sahara sands style, which are all completely different, forests, snow capped mountains, Midwestern style plains, and beaches. Even the beaches can be vastly different.
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Not everyone is suitable to kill a lion - Maasai proverb.