Reply #15: Sort of.

[Cleita]

I live in the county behind several beach cities on the coast of California. My shopping is fifteen minutes away, although major medical is half an hour away. Most of the properties that surround me are at least 2 1/2 acres and up. Most of my neighbors keep horses, chickens, goats, Alpacas, pigs and more.

Only a few do it for a living though. There is plenty of wild life passing right in front of my window like deer and many birds, hawks, owls, ravens and sometimes even an eagle. Coyotes howl at night and I have seen cougar tracks on some occasions.

Vineyards are planted behind the hill that separates us from them as this is also a rising wine country, and their are plenty of fields of agricultural products as well as pastures with horses and cattle. However, having spent years living in the wildernesses of Eastern Washington, Northern Idaho and Western Montana, this area seems very tame and citified to me.