Although not an absolute, sunshine and pretty people to look at kind of takes the hate out of you. Name the last car-flipping riot in San Diego.

Except that L.A. has similar climate and access to pretty people, yet it had BRUTAL riots in 1968(?) and 1991.

The Katrina evacuation vs San Diego were two different cans of worms. Correct me if I’m wrong, but most of the areas affected by the bushfires were far wealthier and less densely populated than large parts of NOLA, and also SD city government isn’t nearly as corrupt and incompetent as NOLA’s.