If California had a setting labeled “peaceful, beautiful, and inexplicably safe,” it would load up Yorba Linda, and honestly, that’s not an exaggeration.
This Orange County city has built a reputation as one of the safest places in the entire country, and one afternoon here is all it takes to understand why the people who live here are so quietly smug about it.
Yorba Linda sits in the northeastern corner of Orange County, where the land starts to roll and the hills begin to take over from the flat suburban sprawl that defines so much of Southern California.
The geography here is part of the story…