[quote=jpinpb][quote=Doooh]I’ve lived on the beach for a year, lived down town for 2, and put 5 years working in point Loma.
San Diego beaches stink, no really they stink. The musty smell hits you like a ton of bricks when entering homes 1-2 blocks from the surf.
9 months out of the year the water is too cold to go in or fish in. I put a GPS on my boat because well, “in San Diego you have to run a radar or GPS because of the fog layer”
If your not socked in fog in the AM you have the coastal layer to deal with most of he day. I think living on the beach is not the ideal, but only a pipe dream that folks make up in thief heads. The reality is colder days and cloudy days that block out the sun.
2-3 months in the summer is prime… If your parking spot doesn’t get stolen. Living on the SD beach was fun for 6 months until reality set in. Its not the tropical paradise that people make up in thier heads.[/quote]
Once again, I agree. Living inland can get real hot in the summer, but living along the coast can be dismal w/the marine layer. And agree WRT the water temperature. Heck, even the sand. You’d think the city would clean it for the tourists. Full of seaweed. I think that’s probably what you’re smelling. In addition to that, along w/my disenchantment w/PB (stated on another thread) you can smell the urine from the bums and maybe even the drunk people, too, who can’t bother to find a bathroom. (but I suppose that’s not limited to PB – also D/T).
I don’t want to complain. But anyone who says we have the greatest weather, they’re just not being honest w/themselves. And it seems that sometimes the justification for the high home prices comes down to weather.[/quote]
Totally agree with you guys, which is why we want to live further inland (at least 5 miles), if possible. The only problem for us is that the older, non-HOA homes are closer to the coast. There are very few of the old-school houses once you get outside of the fog belt.
