I agree with all you say about San Diego… It doesn’t have the urban toughness, etc. I was on Long Island (outside of NYC) driving to my old company about a year and a half ago. I was crawling on the Long Island Expressway, there was a driving freezing rain, I couldn’t see anything, was cold and miserable, and the traffic went 10 miles an hour for 2 hours.
I kept telling myself that thank god I live in SD.
The problem is that there is so much missing out here. And to the previous poster – you can watch TV either here or Ohio, but your mortgage precludes you from relaxing in SD.
Now I say THANK GOD I sold my house in Dec 2006 and am renting!
To the poster that talked about the dog beach, the skiing, ect., these are nice but the rest of the country has awesome stuff to do as well.
In NY I could drive up to ski, could go to the beach (warm water), could go play golf, go to real museums and real theater (still like the Old Globe, but it’s not Broadway!), and the clubs were fantastic. It’s a different fast paced lifestyle, but Central Park is amazing… truly amazing. Balboa Park doesn’t cut it because it isn’t an oasis like CP is. I still want to be here, not NY… NY is for when you are 20 something (like PB), but for every attraction and cool thing about San Diego, I can name 5 in any other city.
p.s. New York has real weather. that is very, very cool. It is also a pain in the ass. But sometimes the neutral warmth of SD isn’t so awesome either. We live in La Jolla and it was basically cold and damp this winter. Not freezing, but not like a warm tropical island
