[quote=ctr70]A lot of SD has a lower mentality crowd and a lot of directionless uneducated people. I think the general population here have more in common with say Texas or Arizona in style, taste, mindset vs. SF/Boston/Seattle/Manhattan (and I don’t mean that politically). It is also more “commercialized” and has a lot of unsightly suburban/cookie cutter, sterile, characterless areas (like Rancho Penasquitas where I live now and most of inland North County IMO). These areas are just totally car culture mall oriented places, you never see anyone on the sidewalks! They are so sterile feeling and devoid of any uniqueness. There are only a few places in SD which are kind of cool, interesting and have some character (parts of North Park, Univ Heights, South Park, Hillcrest)…and even those areas can lack.
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I agree that the general population in the Bay Area vs. San Diego does seem to be more educated/intelligent/cultural as a whole than down here. Probably has a lot to do with the fact that uneducated people simply can’t afford to live up there.
However, I don’t think comparing the suburbs of SD to the city of SF itself is a fair comparison. I may be wrong since I’ve never lived in Silicon Valley myself but from what I’ve seen cities in the South Bay around San Jose are basically the same “suburban/cookie cutter, sterile, characterless” areas as the suburbs down here.
