Top 10 Best Cities in California

The Top Ten
1 San Francisco San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

Great public transport and tons of tourist attractions, but traffic is atrocious, living prices are absolutely outrageous, and there's homeless people wherever you look.

It is the best best!

Go 49ers (and Giants)!

2 Los Angeles Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often abbreviated as L.A., is the largest city in California. It has an estimated population of nearly 4 million, and is the second-largest city in the United States, after New York City, and the third-largest city in North America, after Mexico City and New York City. Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, Hollywood entertainment industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. ...read more.

This should be first. San Francisco is awesome but sooo cold. Los Angeles has beaches... Nice weather... Celebs... Its great for show biz... It has awesome amusement parks and much more

Los Angeles is the heart of California!

Los Angeles is the Best!

It's 4 hours from Vegas

3 San Diego

Best weather ever, no smog, beautiful mountains, and really really safe!

This should be #1

4 Sacramento
5 San Jose
6 Fresno

Many people say Fresno is a trash city with dumb people, they are right. But I think it is a native thing, If you grow up in the Downtown or on the West Side than yes it is pretty crappy. But living anywhere else it is a fairly moderate city I would say. There is a bit more crime than a city our size should have and we do have a homeless problem, but other than that it is a cool city. Most people have a, "If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you." attitude. It is very diverse, having a large Hmong, Armenian, and Hispanic community. We are between San Francisco and L.A, so you hear slangs and see culture from both of those areas.

Honestly, there is not much to say about Fresno. The City has its Pros and Cons, but that kind of depends on where you are. It is a good place to visit, but you might want to think hard on whether you want to live here or not. I love the place and do not plan on leaving, but many people will understand why if you do not feel the way.

I live in Northern Fresno bear the golf area and let me tell you.. I love it.. You get a good view from the Sierra Nevada mountains and you can play golf any time.. Many mansions and big houses that you want to live in! If you live near downtown Fresno, you wouldn't like that area.. :(

7 Huntington Beach
8 Oakland Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port city, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the San Francisco Bay Area, the eighth most populated city in California, and the 45th largest city in the United States.
9 Cupertino
10 Long Beach

Long Beach is like, THE BEST city to live in. We have really nice people, pleasant weather, and clean oceans! We also have some awesome sea life!

It looks like a really good city.

The Contenders
11 Westminster
12 Irvine
13 Folsom
14 Cypress
15 San Bernardino
16 Los Alamitos
17 Rocklin
18 Fountain Valley
19 Aliso Viejo
20 Anaheim

Disneyland is in Anaheim.

21 Fremont
22 Buena Park
23 Lake Forest
24 Redding
25 Hayward

I was born in hayward, plus it's near the bay area, so I basically am a bay area girl. Now I live in a boring city east of hayward. I want to come back to hayward.

I was born here.

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