It’s why Google called this small city, stretching along nearly 7 miles of sandy coastline between Los Angeles and San Diego, a “digital capital of California.” When personal technology blew up in the early ’80s, the idyllic beach location and perfect weather attracted high-tech start-ups that one by one planted themselves here: for instance Viasat, whose satellite provides Wi-Fi on Jet Blue and Air Force One and, more recently, biotech companies like Thermo Fisher Scientific and Genoptix. If towns were people, Carlsbad would be that friend you want to hate but can’t help admiring: smart, sporty, really good-looking, and ambitious. No reason to flee to the suburbs Sac is giving city dwellers a taste of both town and country.
Farmers’ markets are open all week during peak season, and farm-to-table restaurants abound. Nonprofit farms began tilling unused urban lots, while the Sacramento Urban Agriculture Coalition is working to expand the local urban-farm movement beyond the city limits and into the entire county. In 2017, the County Board of Supervisors passed a law allowing residents to sell homegrown food on their own properties and raise animals for educational programs such as 4-H. The area’s traditional farmer-rancher mind-set has also made its way into the city itself. Today, its core of old Victorians are flanked by modern lofts, and weekends see once-sparsely populated neighborhoods bumping with sidewalk cafes and hip brewpubs. But in the years that followed the 2008 recession, real-estate development and a steady crop of new restaurants and boutiques took advantage of the low rents and property costs and slowly filled the streets of Sacramento. It used to be that come Friday night, this cow town practically emptied out-its county and state capital employees fleeing for the suburbs or surrounding farmlands.
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