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Originally Posted by frazod
Why are there no major cities in northern California? Is it some uninhabitable wasteland, or have shitty weather, or what? Perhaps that's the area of the state where the normal people live, and there aren't enough of them to form a major city.
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The weather is good and some of the most productive farmland in the world is here, in the Central Valley, which is ringed by mountains. I think the physical layout is why the big population centers in Northern California are in the Bay Area and, to a much lesser extent, Sacramento (where I work). The location of the waterways and the mountain passes has had a big effect on what areas were viable for large-scale settlement.
That's just my amateur opinion, though.