“San Diego is so boring. I HATE it!”

[ctr70]

I agree with a lot of the posters, San Diego as a city is overrated. Take away the weather and this place is below average. It’s interesting, even though the weather isn’t perfect, people still want to live in places like Seattle, SF, Boston…b/c they are such cool cities w/ character, they overcome the weather.

SD lacks culture, there’s a lot of unsightly sprawl and suburbia. It has an “emptiness” to it. And the central beach communities are full of these dirtbag mental midgits. The Gaslamp is just a bunch of national chain restaurants each with 97 big screen TV’s and lacks character. Much of North County is souless, sterile, cookie cutter suburbia. And the beach crowd up there is just an extention of “plastic” Orange County.

And people who say Berkely has bad weather have to get a clue. Compared to what? The Bay Area is probably the 2nd best weather in the entire U.S. after SoCal. Compare it to Chicago, Boston, Seattle and it has awesome weather.

But the weather is so awesome in San Diego it keeps me here. SD is not a horrible place (like Phoenix or Dallas for example), but it overrated. And it gets annoying listening to people go so gaa-gaa over it.

I have this mismatch with weather and cities, I like warm weather, but all the cities I like are in the North (Seattle, Boston, SF, London, Paris). Most of the warm weather cities in the US are not that interesting (Phoenix, Houston, All of Florida pretty much sucks, Atlanta). And SoCal is also not that great in terms of cities.

Why can’t there be a Seattle, Boston, SF, London, or Paris in a nice climate like San Diego!!!!

[flyer]

We’ve lived many places all over the world, and still have homes elsewhere, but San Diego is our overall fav.

When my kids first got into the “I’m bored” syndrome, we whipped out the old calculator and showed them, on paper, how much it costs to live well in this world. Then we told them that one day they alone would be responsible for those same costs.

We told them they could live anywhere they wanted after college, when they were fully supporting themselves, and that they would soon find out that even if they received $80K as a new grads, that wouldn’t buy much of a life, after taxes. “Shock” is a mild adjective to describe their amazement. “Horror” would probably be a better word. Funny, we’ve never heard them “whining” again.

[flyer]

We’ve lived many places all over the world, and still have homes elsewhere, but San Diego is our overall fav.

When my kids first got into the “I’m bored” syndrome, we whipped out the old calculator and showed them, on paper, how much it costs to live well in this world. Then we told them that one day they alone would be responsible for those same costs.

We told them they could live anywhere they wanted after college, when they were fully supporting themselves, and that they would soon find out that even if they received $80K as a new grads, that wouldn’t buy much of a life, after taxes. “Shock” is a mild adjective to describe their amazement. “Horror” would probably be a better word. Funny, we’ve never heard them “whining” again.

[flyer]

We’ve lived many places all over the world, and still have homes elsewhere, but San Diego is our overall fav.

When my kids first got into the “I’m bored” syndrome, we whipped out the old calculator and showed them, on paper, how much it costs to live well in this world. Then we told them that one day they alone would be responsible for those same costs.

We told them they could live anywhere they wanted after college, when they were fully supporting themselves, and that they would soon find out that even if they received $80K as a new grads, that wouldn’t buy much of a life, after taxes. “Shock” is a mild adjective to describe their amazement. “Horror” would probably be a better word. Funny, we’ve never heard them “whining” again.

[flyer]

We’ve lived many places all over the world, and still have homes elsewhere, but San Diego is our overall fav.

When my kids first got into the “I’m bored” syndrome, we whipped out the old calculator and showed them, on paper, how much it costs to live well in this world. Then we told them that one day they alone would be responsible for those same costs.

We told them they could live anywhere they wanted after college, when they were fully supporting themselves, and that they would soon find out that even if they received $80K as a new grads, that wouldn’t buy much of a life, after taxes. “Shock” is a mild adjective to describe their amazement. “Horror” would probably be a better word. Funny, we’ve never heard them “whining” again.

[flyer]

We’ve lived many places all over the world, and still have homes elsewhere, but San Diego is our overall fav.

When my kids first got into the “I’m bored” syndrome, we whipped out the old calculator and showed them, on paper, how much it costs to live well in this world. Then we told them that one day they alone would be responsible for those same costs.

We told them they could live anywhere they wanted after college, when they were fully supporting themselves, and that they would soon find out that even if they received $80K as a new grads, that wouldn’t buy much of a life, after taxes. “Shock” is a mild adjective to describe their amazement. “Horror” would probably be a better word. Funny, we’ve never heard them “whining” again.

[Coronita]

Forgot to add too that in SF/Oakland, you're also within striking distance to Lake Tahoe in the winter for skiing/snowboarding and Sacramento/Merced in the summer for white water rafting, kayaking. Golden Gate park is also a great place on Sundays for inline skaters and skateboarders. Also, road trips are great there. Santa Cruz mountains with their twisties are great for car freaks and enthusiasts clubs. AND there is an awesome race track up there.

There really is much more available imho to do up there. Since moving back, I still have yet to dust off my skis and skates (ok, it doesn't help my wife doesn't can't ski, skate.) And ironic, I live probably about 10 mins to the ocean here, and I can't remember the last time i was there, as I really don't have a desire to learn how to surf.

 

TuVu, Manhattan, so I have heard is really only a great place to live IF you are on a wall street salary. Otherwise, I heard it's pretty miserable. 

I think what makes the Bay Area different is that you don't have to live in SF or really ritsy neighborhoods to enjoy what it has to offer. It's really much more of an outdoors culture than anything else.

As an added bonus, smart/attractive women have an advantage being in the Bay Area (the guy to girl ratio is terrible for a guy).

 

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—– Sour grapes for everyone!

[Coronita]

Forgot to add too that in SF/Oakland, you're also within striking distance to Lake Tahoe in the winter for skiing/snowboarding and Sacramento/Merced in the summer for white water rafting, kayaking. Golden Gate park is also a great place on Sundays for inline skaters and skateboarders. Also, road trips are great there. Santa Cruz mountains with their twisties are great for car freaks and enthusiasts clubs. AND there is an awesome race track up there.

There really is much more available imho to do up there. Since moving back, I still have yet to dust off my skis and skates (ok, it doesn't help my wife doesn't can't ski, skate.) And ironic, I live probably about 10 mins to the ocean here, and I can't remember the last time i was there, as I really don't have a desire to learn how to surf.

 

TuVu, Manhattan, so I have heard is really only a great place to live IF you are on a wall street salary. Otherwise, I heard it's pretty miserable. 

I think what makes the Bay Area different is that you don't have to live in SF or really ritsy neighborhoods to enjoy what it has to offer. It's really much more of an outdoors culture than anything else.

As an added bonus, smart/attractive women have an advantage being in the Bay Area (the guy to girl ratio is terrible for a guy).

 

[img_assist|nid=5962|title=selfportrait|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=80]

—– Sour grapes for everyone!

[Coronita]

Forgot to add too that in SF/Oakland, you're also within striking distance to Lake Tahoe in the winter for skiing/snowboarding and Sacramento/Merced in the summer for white water rafting, kayaking. Golden Gate park is also a great place on Sundays for inline skaters and skateboarders. Also, road trips are great there. Santa Cruz mountains with their twisties are great for car freaks and enthusiasts clubs. AND there is an awesome race track up there.

There really is much more available imho to do up there. Since moving back, I still have yet to dust off my skis and skates (ok, it doesn't help my wife doesn't can't ski, skate.) And ironic, I live probably about 10 mins to the ocean here, and I can't remember the last time i was there, as I really don't have a desire to learn how to surf.

 

TuVu, Manhattan, so I have heard is really only a great place to live IF you are on a wall street salary. Otherwise, I heard it's pretty miserable. 

I think what makes the Bay Area different is that you don't have to live in SF or really ritsy neighborhoods to enjoy what it has to offer. It's really much more of an outdoors culture than anything else.

As an added bonus, smart/attractive women have an advantage being in the Bay Area (the guy to girl ratio is terrible for a guy).

 

[img_assist|nid=5962|title=selfportrait|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=80]

—– Sour grapes for everyone!

[Coronita]

Forgot to add too that in SF/Oakland, you're also within striking distance to Lake Tahoe in the winter for skiing/snowboarding and Sacramento/Merced in the summer for white water rafting, kayaking. Golden Gate park is also a great place on Sundays for inline skaters and skateboarders. Also, road trips are great there. Santa Cruz mountains with their twisties are great for car freaks and enthusiasts clubs. AND there is an awesome race track up there.

There really is much more available imho to do up there. Since moving back, I still have yet to dust off my skis and skates (ok, it doesn't help my wife doesn't can't ski, skate.) And ironic, I live probably about 10 mins to the ocean here, and I can't remember the last time i was there, as I really don't have a desire to learn how to surf.

 

TuVu, Manhattan, so I have heard is really only a great place to live IF you are on a wall street salary. Otherwise, I heard it's pretty miserable. 

I think what makes the Bay Area different is that you don't have to live in SF or really ritsy neighborhoods to enjoy what it has to offer. It's really much more of an outdoors culture than anything else.

As an added bonus, smart/attractive women have an advantage being in the Bay Area (the guy to girl ratio is terrible for a guy).

 

[img_assist|nid=5962|title=selfportrait|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=80]

—– Sour grapes for everyone!

[Coronita]

Forgot to add too that in SF/Oakland, you're also within striking distance to Lake Tahoe in the winter for skiing/snowboarding and Sacramento/Merced in the summer for white water rafting, kayaking. Golden Gate park is also a great place on Sundays for inline skaters and skateboarders. Also, road trips are great there. Santa Cruz mountains with their twisties are great for car freaks and enthusiasts clubs. AND there is an awesome race track up there.

There really is much more available imho to do up there. Since moving back, I still have yet to dust off my skis and skates (ok, it doesn't help my wife doesn't can't ski, skate.) And ironic, I live probably about 10 mins to the ocean here, and I can't remember the last time i was there, as I really don't have a desire to learn how to surf.

 

TuVu, Manhattan, so I have heard is really only a great place to live IF you are on a wall street salary. Otherwise, I heard it's pretty miserable. 

I think what makes the Bay Area different is that you don't have to live in SF or really ritsy neighborhoods to enjoy what it has to offer. It's really much more of an outdoors culture than anything else.

As an added bonus, smart/attractive women have an advantage being in the Bay Area (the guy to girl ratio is terrible for a guy).

 

[img_assist|nid=5962|title=selfportrait|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=80]

—– Sour grapes for everyone!

[Anonymous]

Generally if someone says they prefer the Bay Area over San Diego they are either Asian or Gay.

[Anonymous]

Generally if someone says they prefer the Bay Area over San Diego they are either Asian or Gay.

[Anonymous]

Generally if someone says they prefer the Bay Area over San Diego they are either Asian or Gay.

[Anonymous]

Generally if someone says they prefer the Bay Area over San Diego they are either Asian or Gay.

[Author]

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