I live in Eureka, and while it is worth visiting to see the Redwoods and such, it is NOT worth living in unless you like the small town, nothing-interesting-to-do-half-the-time, hippie environment. If you are into that, then more power to you. If you are a liberal (and I mean like Berkeley liberal) democrat type of person (not moderate-conservative democrat like me) then you will probably fair well here. I get slack all the time for supporting the war in Iraq and President Bush.