As someone living outside of the west coast, I've noticed a ridiculous number of essentially non-technical stories about living in California. Does HN currently

As someone living outside of the west coast, I've noticed a ridiculous number of essentially non-technical stories about living in California. Does HN currently skew so unevenly in terms of geography that a majority or significant minority lives in such a small part of the globe, and is this actually a trend (non-Californians dropping off HN, long-time HN users moving to the valley, significantly higher adoption amongst California residents)? Between living-in-California posts and posts focusing on commercial rather than technical concerns, HN is rapidly becoming less interesting to me, despite having used it consistently for less than six months -- unfortunate since there's a notable minority of extremely interesting technical posts that I need to dig through the 'new' section to find!