If for some reason I were not able to live in Northern California (my lifelong home) my next choice would certainly be British Columbia. Nice people, great scenery, sophisticated cities, diversity and opportunity, truly one of the world's favored places. I manage to visit BC almost every year and have poked into just about every locality that can be reached by road and a few that can't. Of course I have mostly only seen it in summer - Californians are notoriously shy about rain and cold.

I have divided BC into four guidebooks: Northern BC is almost half the province, everything north of the Yellowhead Highway; the Coast and Islands of British Columbia includes the Inside Passage, Vancouver Island and Victoria; Vancouver and the Lower Mainland is relatively small, just Vancouver and adjacent lowland areas; while the Interior and Rocky Mountains covers everything inland including the Canadian Rockies.