Like most southern coast cities and towns, Costa Mesa, California is as  
beautiful as its name.  Costa Mesa is  located between Huntington Beach and Seal Beach to the West in the coastal area of Orange County.
 
First a grazing site, then a farming community, then a sort of army  town (circa WWII), the town now houses a few over 100,00 residents of all  fields and professions and that many more who commute outside to work.  In town, the people, who are of an average age of thirty-two, tend to  education and entertainment, accommodation and food service, and  manufacturing and retail.  Their light industry/moderately heavy retail, that  is, has made the town of Costa Mesa, California a city. 
 
But Costa Mesa, California is still a city with relatively low crime  rates and relatively high morale.  The weather is mild.  The natural  scenery is classic. There are twenty-six parks and recreation areas, and a  popular golf course (the Costa Mesa Golf and Country Club).  There is a  hub of shopping and activity—where a tenth of the community spends its  day catering to the public and to visitors to architecturally renowned  South Coast Plaza (also remarkable for its 300+ stores).  
 
More entertainment makes Costa Mesa, California singularly popular, not  
only with its Orange County Performing Arts Center and South Coast  Repertory Theatre, but for its annual hosting of the Orange County Fair at  the Orange County Fairgrounds, where over a million attend one of the  biggest fairs in the state. 
 
If, as I have, you get the opportunity to tour Costa Mesa, California,  you will be impressed with how the urban and rural have melded over the  years to offer a striking balance of country and city, of work and  play.  You might prefer the Twilight Tour and Train Ride, which will expose  you to the sweet underbelly of the place.  You might get lucky and  happen upon the local artists at a gem, jewelry, and bead show or the Sugar  Plum Arts and Crafts Festival.  You might hit one of the nighttime  concerts in the park (Fairview, for example), or attend the annual Lounge  Chair Theatre.  Or, you might get very lucky and have the chance to rub  elbows with one the superstars of Costa Mesa origin, like Zach Wells,  the major league soccer player for the MetroStars, whom you can invite  for a dip in the Pacific…which is only about a mile away.