The state is still the state. The area sounds awesome, unfortunately it is in Kalipornia subject to Kalipornia law, regulation and taxation.
I am not going to try to convince you. If you do not like it, do not make an offer. I can, however, assure you that in over a decade no one has ever decided to come this way to see if I am properly paying state taxes. Heck, I rarely see even a Forestry Service employee. Most I’ve ever seen are the CHP cars and SUVs on the roads.
And the nation is still the nation. All the laws and regulations you hear stories about no one cares about out here, out of and away from the town boundaries. Feel free to choose Lower Cali (Mexico) or Upper USA (Canada) if you feel they will offer you greater firearms freedoms. I have been shooting "Target Practice" for more years than I can completely remember here, and the idiotic laws the elite liberal snob perfumed-princes in the SF Bay Area have absolutely no effect on life hereabouts.
Berkeley and Los Angeles? Forget it. Berkeley is for the rich liberal elites to snob around in and grub after tofu as they wish. Los Angeles? Besides looking the other way about all the illegal aliens openly residing there, I fully expect that area to fall back into Mexico proper at any time now. And I laugh My arse off when I think about how all those idiots are going to feel when they bring about their longed-for "utopia" of "Atzlan".
Which to their surprise is governed by the laws of Mexico.
Which their ancestors almost killed themselves attempting to escape from. Enjoy, you moronic sodding gits!