It would be interesting to see how many of those folks “coming back to SD County” are going to be renting.
Too bad there aren’t very many good jobs, let alone “dream jobs”, in the whole of San Diego.
Lastly, I submit that the increased fire danger in all of Southern California (which will likely leave no area unburned over the next 20 years) is a change (for the worse) in the “weather” that may keep people away.