[quote=spdrun]The-Shoveler: “downtown” SD is crap, I agree. If you want to live in a nice/walkable area you have your choice:
(1) North Park
(2) Uni Heights
(3) PB or OB
(4) South Park/Golden Hill
(5) Parts of coastal North County (read: Carlsbad, Encinitas, or even Oceanside).
Downtown SD is the equivalent of parts of Midtown Manhattan or areas near Wall St. Great for business but deadski after hours.[/quote]
1-4 definitely are interesting and walkable, not really “nice”. These areas come with a lot to make one grimace each and every day. Condoms iand dog stuff on the sidewalks and in the street , unfortunate homeless crazies and drug addicts wandering the alleys and sleeping who knows where. Gang bangers. Surface street traffic galore even on a lot of the side streets, but definitely on the main roads. Dirty streets. Terrible parking competition. Stinky grease traps and other restaurant and business garbage stockpiled in the allies. People dumping stuff randomly from trucks there too. Potential muggings and lots of small theft/burglary. I guess I could go on but it’s been a while since I lived there so my memory may be failing me.
