San Diego is just a great place to live. I lived in SD for 15 years. I loved having out of town visitors over to share SD with. Taking a midwesterner to the mountains, the desert, and the beach in one day is a real trip.
I had clients visiting from Kansas City once. At the time I did a lot of sailing out of Harbor Island Yacht Club. For dinner I rented a sailboat and took them over to Peohe’s on Coronado Island. They were floored that they sailed to an island for dinner. Can’t do that in KC.
SD doesn’t have the shopping of OC. It doesn’t have the culture of NYC (lived there too). SD seems mostly to be burbs and strip malls that all look alike. But all in all it’s a great place to be, where it’s not at all hard to enjoy life.
BTW, Marion, lately I’ve been looking at Temecula instead of waiting longer for SD to turn around. One of the Temecula cons for me is that it’s so far from any major universities. How did you manage to get your Masters while living up there?