I just got back from Seattle and Vermont & Maine myself. Wow, I forgot how much I miss green trees and beautiful quaint, tree lined, historic leafy neighborhoods!
It makes me realize that the old moniker for San Diego as “America’s Finest City” was totally wrong and was never the case. What it is is “America’s Finest Weather”, definitely not even close to finest city. 90% of the reason I am in San Diego is the weather, much of SD county and the housing stock is dumpy and overpriced OR cookie cutter, car culture, character-less, big box, fast food chain suburbia AND overpriced.