If you thought you saw many of them in Berkley, CA, where they do not live, I’m afraid I would have to question your spider sense in other states.
(Sorry, but sick of every little brown spider being declared a brown recluse and righteously smashed, and every unexplained pustule on a leg being diagnosed as from one of their bites. That guy’s hyperventilation may be cranked up to 11 but its because the misinformation about those spiders is at about 25.)