Tourism is probably 80% or more of their economies.

And I've been looking forward to the day that I would open myself to this community and embrace it and become a part of it, but I've hesitated for a loooong time for some unknown reason.

As much as you may have viewed some of it as an attack on you personally, I implore you to embrace the old adage, "a still tongue keeps a wise head." 

Paraphrasing Mike Fitzgerald, who writes for the local paper, "Stockton needs to stop trying to be a Champagne town, and embrace it's Budweiser capabilities."

You have heard this before; Overcoming your fears, and anxiety is the biggest hurdle that can be alleviated with adequate education of REISelf Study ->Paid-Education (local REIA), ->Meet, ->Volunteer -> finding a Mentor is the process I'm embracing at this point.Choose one Strategy to master (Buy and Hold, Flip, BRRR, House Hack), One market (Area), and Investment type (SFH, and MFM)Good Luck !

Major employers, colleges, hospitals, military, tourism? 

You have heard this before; Overcoming your fears, and anxiety is the biggest hurdle that can be alleviated with adequate education of REISelf Study ->Paid-Education (local REIA), ->Meet, ->Volunteer -> finding a Mentor is the process I'm embracing at this point.Good Luck !

This can be a good opportunity in tourism where people can come to shop for Christmas tree and also spend a day there.

My only word of encouragement would be to embrace some volatility over the coming decade for the longer-term opportunities it can afford.

Someday the building will be paid off and California's open armed embrace of Illegal Immigrants GUARANTEES that rental housing supply will always be in high demand, driving C and D property rents higher and higher.