Hell yeah, arcata is a,little college town. There are no chain restaurants in town they only want local business. Really nice place, you have a lot of choices in places to live out there. Any thing north of eureka is cool. Eureka not bad, its just a small town people get board and do stupid shit. I remember when these kids got in a shoot out with the cops and raced out through the mountains only to crash off a cliff, they lived but shit like that isn't really uncommon.