[quote=desmond]Yes, everybody lives by the sea in San Diego, a sea of rooftops. Too bad most of you never got to enjoy San Diego the way I did and even if you didn’t it is still a great place. Who cares? Are you offended if people you don’t know move to another area or stay? A real tired subject.[/quote]

Desmond, I got to enjoy it. I got to waterski in SD every weekend for six months per year on SD Bay, below the Coronado bridge where we anchored our boat on the inner beach of the strand. It was the same people every year who skied in a “football field” fashion and watched each other’s skiers down, kids and dogs left playing on the beach and shared each other’s bonfires and BBQ.

We even took off on our ski directly from the strand 🙂

Of course, that’s all closed off now because the Navy decided to build a HUGE complex on the beach for their E-3 and up families and put up chain-link fence. Apparently, they thought lower-enlisted personnel “deserved” to live right on the sand :=0

I’m beyond disgusted that it now takes 20-25 minutes to go six miles on “H” Street and 35 minutes to go six miles on “L” St/Telegraph Cyn Rd in Chula Vista, no less!

And don’t even ask me about Orange/Olympic View Pkwy because I purposely stay off of it during its 3-hr long “rush hours.” It’s a ridiculous moving parking lot.

Very few of those over-encumbered residents in Chula V’s lizardland are using that (expensive) SR-125 toll road out there, which was developed expressly for their use. Instead, they are snaking the 8-12 miles into town in long, long lines to use the “free” highways.

Why is this not surprising??

All those hills used to be “4-wheeling meccas” on the weekends.

ChulaV has grown from a population of 52K in 1986 to 277K now.

Ask yourselves how that happened.

And these are just very few of the changes for the worse in the last ~20 years in my little neck of the woods.