I'm from the west coast and I went to college there, and yes, there is a lot of geek culture at most west coast schools, especially the smaller liberal arts colleges, where pretty much everybody's a geek about something. If you want it, its probably there. At my undergrad the biggest thing was anime and japanese culture, but we also had a LARP club, a NERF club, an annual humans vs zombies game, D&D, Magic, tabletop and console gaming clubs.