Gardeners paradise

I grew up in Western Washington, where it was green and beautiful, and you better love rain.  I moved to Northern California when I was 18, and lived there ever since.  Today I was out cleaning up some spent veggie, making room to plant my fall garden.  And it got me thinking how lucky I am.  Northern California zone 9b is a gardener's paradise.  There are very few things I can't grow, and an insanely long growing season.  I literally have something growing in my garden every month of the year.  I'm terrible with geography, so I'm sure there are other amazing places. That being said if I was going to pick a place to live based on growing my own food it would be here.  Like all things it isn't perfect. Today is October 1st and it's 90 degrees. (Summer temp are high 90s low 100s) Water is scares, and hard, full of minerals that taste terrible, and ruin pipes, and washers.  Don't even get me started on the fact our income tax is the highest in the nation I believe.  When we do get a few days of rain we have to worry about flooding.  Still I'm grateful to live where I can grow veggies all year long.  Ok I'm bragging a bit, but mostly I wanted to throw my appreciation and joy of being in my garden out there.  
All the pictures I'm posting were taken today 10/1/21. The empty beds are totally empty because I had to redo them to and hard wire cloth to keep the gophers out.  I will plant peas, broccoli, lettuce, spinach, carrots, onions, kale, pansies, and stuff like that.
Happy gardening

It`s nice for you to be able to garden year round, and I`m finding it hard not to be jealous as we swing into autumn here (more wet and windy to come...)
I can think of a couple more downsides of perfect weather: I guess you have to do a fair bit of watering, at least when establishing plants, and do you get enough winter chill for some fruit? I`m thinking apples and currants, rhubarb as well likes a good cold spell.
I wouldn`t say I have a perfect climate here by any means, far too much `weather` going on usually. It would be nice to have a bit more summer weather, but I wouldn`t like it as hot as we seem to have been having further South in the UK recently.
Each area has it`s ups and downs. I`m thinking ahead to when my tunnel`s lifetime is done. I do like that extra bit of warmth it gives allowing me to grow warmer summer crops like tomatoes. There are probably other ways to generate a bit more warmth, more cold is a bit trickier.

Edited to add photo of part of my garden. This is the first year I`ce grown nasturtiums outside.

I really like reading succinct descriptions of gardening situations in various climate/geographical situations, especially with annotated pictures like this post.

I could read a book full of these... *hint* to permies everywhere thinking of collaborative publishing projects.