Any NATIVE San Diegans here?

[what_a_disasta]

I am not a native myself. But as someone who has lived here 6 years or so, this comment from SD Lookup that sums it up for me.

http://www.sdlookup.com/Forums/RegionsNeighborhoods/tabid/62/forumid/192/postid/1193/view/topic/Default.aspx

I used to live in Carmel Valley and it’s a boring place. Del Mar, Solana Beach, Encinitas on the Coast is fine but anything East of the 5 is boring for boring people with boring lives and cookie cutter mentality.

I really like the village atmosphere of the older coastal towns like Del Mar and Coronado, but the rest of the county is pretty much a cultural vacuum compared to other places I have lived. The trouble is you need to be doing very well for yourself to be able to relocate to a nice house in one of those desirable areas.

[taz]

I moved here in 1986 – was in the Navy back in those days. Yes, I too remember when the I-15 was still surface streets through the area where I now live (Kensington/Talmadge), but that wasn’t a problem b/c downtown was dirty and scary and crime ridden and no one went there unless they absolutely had to (i.e. jury duty). Left in ’88, came back in ’93 for lawschool and stayed. And…thank goodness, bought a house in ’97 before the crazyness really got out of hand. San Diego, for all its current problems, is still a wonderful place to live, especially compared to the midwest where I grew up…

[taz]

I moved here in 1986 – was in the Navy back in those days. Yes, I too remember when the I-15 was still surface streets through the area where I now live (Kensington/Talmadge), but that wasn’t a problem b/c downtown was dirty and scary and crime ridden and no one went there unless they absolutely had to (i.e. jury duty). Left in ’88, came back in ’93 for lawschool and stayed. And…thank goodness, bought a house in ’97 before the crazyness really got out of hand. San Diego, for all its current problems, is still a wonderful place to live, especially compared to the midwest where I grew up…

[taz]

Ummm….what_a_disasta…Hillcrest, Mission Hills, University Heights, South Park…all are east of the 5, and while maybe not your personal favorites, can hardly be called boring or described as having a “cookie cutter mentality…”

[taz]

Ummm….what_a_disasta…Hillcrest, Mission Hills, University Heights, South Park…all are east of the 5, and while maybe not your personal favorites, can hardly be called boring or described as having a “cookie cutter mentality…”

[what_a_disasta]

You are correct. Those places are so grim I must have totally blanked them out of my mind.

[what_a_disasta]

You are correct. Those places are so grim I must have totally blanked them out of my mind.

[PerryChase]

I agree with you taz. However, I think that what_a_disasta was referring to master planned, cookie-cutter communities in North County.

[PerryChase]

I agree with you taz. However, I think that what_a_disasta was referring to master planned, cookie-cutter communities in North County.

[Bugs]

I was raised in the OC and moved here in 1990.

[Bugs]

I was raised in the OC and moved here in 1990.

[temeculaguy]

I’m a third generation Southern Californian, although my family is large and not everyone has lived in the same county for the 80 years we’ve been here (parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. and myself with school and jobs over those 8 decades the clan has inhabited L.A., O.C., S.D. and Riverside counties, and still do. Lots of good real estate stories have been told over the years and just last year the family sold Grandma’s house in L.A. that I think she bought in the 1940’s for 5 or 10k and it was paid off 30 years ago. All that family history, maybe 50-100 homes bought and sold amongst family members, all in so cal since the depression and I’m bearish as hell, as is every one of my relatives. I think natives should be more bearish since they’ve seen the pendulum swing more than once.

[temeculaguy]

I’m a third generation Southern Californian, although my family is large and not everyone has lived in the same county for the 80 years we’ve been here (parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. and myself with school and jobs over those 8 decades the clan has inhabited L.A., O.C., S.D. and Riverside counties, and still do. Lots of good real estate stories have been told over the years and just last year the family sold Grandma’s house in L.A. that I think she bought in the 1940’s for 5 or 10k and it was paid off 30 years ago. All that family history, maybe 50-100 homes bought and sold amongst family members, all in so cal since the depression and I’m bearish as hell, as is every one of my relatives. I think natives should be more bearish since they’ve seen the pendulum swing more than once.

[lostkitty]

Am I older than you are jg?! Funny, because before I realized your name stood for ‘J’ust ‘G’oofing – I had always thought it stood for “Judgemental Grandpa”.

[lostkitty]

Am I older than you are jg?! Funny, because before I realized your name stood for ‘J’ust ‘G’oofing – I had always thought it stood for “Judgemental Grandpa”.

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