I agree with a lot of the posters, San Diego as a city is overrated. Take away the weather and this place is below average. It’s interesting, even though the weather isn’t perfect, people still want to live in places like Seattle, SF, Boston…b/c they are such cool cities w/ character, they overcome the weather.
SD lacks culture, there’s a lot of unsightly sprawl and suburbia. It has an “emptiness” to it. And the central beach communities are full of these dirtbag mental midgits. The Gaslamp is just a bunch of national chain restaurants each with 97 big screen TV’s and lacks character. Much of North County is souless, sterile, cookie cutter suburbia. And the beach crowd up there is just an extention of “plastic” Orange County.
And people who say Berkely has bad weather have to get a clue. Compared to what? The Bay Area is probably the 2nd best weather in the entire U.S. after SoCal. Compare it to Chicago, Boston, Seattle and it has awesome weather.
But the weather is so awesome in San Diego it keeps me here. SD is not a horrible place (like Phoenix or Dallas for example), but it overrated. And it gets annoying listening to people go so gaa-gaa over it.
I have this mismatch with weather and cities, I like warm weather, but all the cities I like are in the North (Seattle, Boston, SF, London, Paris). Most of the warm weather cities in the US are not that interesting (Phoenix, Houston, All of Florida pretty much sucks, Atlanta). And SoCal is also not that great in terms of cities.
Why can’t there be a Seattle, Boston, SF, London, or Paris in a nice climate like San Diego!!!!
