-It's really beautiful
-There's so much traffic that you're guarenteed to be late to everything, so why stress about it
-You're constantly surrounded by big nature. The sky, ocean and mountains are omnipresent and huge
-Weed. Lots of weed.
-It's too hot to get worked up about nonsence
-Eastern religions are popular, as are vegans, raw diets, farmers markets, healing crystals, and some other crunchy stuff