I live in San Jose California, at the bottom of the Silicon Valley. What's cool about where I live is that even though I'm in the 10th largest city in the U.S, with over a million people, I'm also about a 1/4 mile away from the mountains. We get deer in our front yard and I've seen rattlesnakes, bobcats, and even a mountian lion, all within a mile radius of our house. I can spend all day hiking and then go into town for a good dinner. clubs, whatever.