[quote=sdrealtor]Head back to those places in a couple months and trudge through 6 inches of slush for a week or two and then tell me how much you love it. Better yet go right before a major snowstorm when the cities shut down for a week or 2 and you are stuck in your house trying to find something to eat.[/quote]
Ahhh the old snow response…this is true. No one will argue SD has great weather, the architecture just sucks and it’s mostly dumpy or cookie cutter. Like I have always said, SD has the best weather in the world and super cool landscape (ocean, mnts, desert), but the city, culture, and surrounding area is a C- in terms the attractiveness of the housing developments and shopping centers. Generic or dumpy, not a lot in between. Mission Hills being one of the few exceptions
To UC Gal…Philly does have some really pretty suburbs that I can’t think of any thing in San Diego that matches. I have a aunt that lives in Devon PA, super nice & NOT cookie cutter. But Philly would not be my top area for stately suburban neighborhoods anyway. Philly in general is for the most is not a great city IMO, esp the city of Philly itself. It would be very low on my choices of places to live. I think Boston blows it’s doors off in terms of the East Coast. No comparison.
