To each their own. Wherever your heart is, that is where you need to live. Currently, I’m living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Home prices are such that I’m looking to move back to San diego. I’ve been in Dallas many a times and I don’t see the attraction. Flat landscape, hot summers, icy winters, and yes, tornadoes.
Here, in Ann Arbor, it’s really amusing. I see articles in the paper that mirror SD. High inventory. Leading the nation in the bubble. EVERYONE wants to live here. (Don’t you just love that?) Doesn’t everyone want to live in Ann Arbor?
McMansions are + $1M. Typical suburbia is min $700K. Bill Ford just listed his home for $3.9 M. Land is roughly $100K/acre. For What??
Okay. This is a really great place to raise kids. Ann Arbor is the most educated city in the USA. I prefer my kids to think a PhD is the norm, as opposed to Botox and physical perfection. Schools are great. Weather sucks, but that’s ok. Kids love the apprehension of the next season. It’s a lot of fun. And you get days off school when the roads are bad and/or its too cold.
From San Diego, I miss so much, still. The Pacific. Rent a boat from Harbor Island Yacht Club and set sail for the Coronados. Set your anchor and sleep on the Pacific. Just inhale and exhale. That changes me every time. I love everything about the Pacific, I love the diversity of San Diego. Where else can you wake up in sunshine and 70 degrees, surf, drive east, see snow, and ski, come back home, and well, just love life? I could go on and on. What do you love the most about SD? Where else in the world can you find that?
I remember the first summer in Mich with my ex, a SD native. the mid of July I was frantically swatting flies away from my baby and me. He just watched me like I was totally nuts as I tried to explain that black flies don’t only bite, they suck. That first fly bite was priceless.
It’s a personal passion. If you don’t have it, then move. It’s important to youu then honor that. Do what is important to your own self.
