You have to call it something!
I don’t see that various coastal locations are either better or worse than previously ... just different.
Since the valley I grew up in was pretty spectacular to begin with, I can’t see that the changes enhanced that. Now the homes are even going up the canyon, so that road is now heavily traveled. It’s one of the reasons there is a sports park where the race track was.
The orchards are almost completely gone, too, so the wildlife is pushed back farther and farther. Downtown is still the same, though the store fronts have different names, but I don’t recognize anything any more.
I know how to get to my friend’s house, and to get out of town by several roads, but nothing else is the same.