San Diego. Why do you love it?

[VanMorrisonFan]

I think you don’t fully appreciate the place in which you live. That’s why I think some people who live in San Diego don’t love it as much as people who visit every so often.

I live in Pasadena and try and get down to San Diego twice a year or so. I think there is a lot to like. The San Diego Symphony is wonderful. Their performance space is small – you don’t feel like you are in a football stadium when you go there for a concert. I like the “walk-ability” of much of Downtown. Years ago I had tea at the U.S. Grant Hotel on winter afternoon and it was wonderful. I love La Jolla. I also like the museums in Balboa Park. The photography museum is great.

There’s a great bike ride up PCH from La Jolla beside UC San Diego up into Del Mar. It’s hilly and tiring, but the smell of the ocean air is wonderful. I love Torrey Pines. Driving through there, at night, with the windows down, smelling the pine trees and the ocean, is wonderful.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

I think you don’t fully appreciate the place in which you live.

So true.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

I think you don’t fully appreciate the place in which you live.

So true.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

I think you don’t fully appreciate the place in which you live.

So true.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

I think you don’t fully appreciate the place in which you live.

So true.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

I think you don’t fully appreciate the place in which you live.

So true.

[vagabondo]

[quote=MadeInTaiwan]First, I want to list what I don’t like about San Diego.

1) Weather never really changes. It is so boring. I am not saying I want to midwest heat/freeze but a bit of a season, more rain would be nice
2) We are not near the desert, we pretty much live in a desert but most keep trying to have a yard like we are in the Pacific Northwest.
3) Because of 2), very few trees except old established neighborhoods
4) Because we are so spread out there are no real ethnic neighborhoods. For example while there is large east Asian mix along Convoy and Mira Mesa it is a far cry from Litle Tokyo, Koreatown, Monteray Park, up in LA.

But then again I rode my bike home yesterday from work in RB to Encinitas. Going over the connection from Bernardo Center to Carmel Valley Road along the north end of Black Mountain I can see for miles the valley beneath to the north. (Here hoping that the housing downturn will keep it undeveloped for a while longer). I love the feel of the beach towns as I ride through Del Mar, Solana Beach and Encinitas.
This morning as I head South along 101 I see surfers to my right and when the sun hits it just right the ocean surface sparkles like a necklace.

Vegabondo complained that the water is cold. Actually it has been getting warmer earlier in the Season. It used to be common for the water to remain into the low 70s well into Sep. The last few times I went to the beach the water felt much warmer than that already.[/quote]

Not complaining and not necessarily cold – I just would not call our water warm. For the record, I swim every Friday (year ’round) with my Tri group off Moonlight Beach. You get about 60 Days of water temps in the high 60’s low 70’s. Not the arctic, but not Hawaii.

[vagabondo]

[quote=MadeInTaiwan]First, I want to list what I don’t like about San Diego.

1) Weather never really changes. It is so boring. I am not saying I want to midwest heat/freeze but a bit of a season, more rain would be nice
2) We are not near the desert, we pretty much live in a desert but most keep trying to have a yard like we are in the Pacific Northwest.
3) Because of 2), very few trees except old established neighborhoods
4) Because we are so spread out there are no real ethnic neighborhoods. For example while there is large east Asian mix along Convoy and Mira Mesa it is a far cry from Litle Tokyo, Koreatown, Monteray Park, up in LA.

But then again I rode my bike home yesterday from work in RB to Encinitas. Going over the connection from Bernardo Center to Carmel Valley Road along the north end of Black Mountain I can see for miles the valley beneath to the north. (Here hoping that the housing downturn will keep it undeveloped for a while longer). I love the feel of the beach towns as I ride through Del Mar, Solana Beach and Encinitas.
This morning as I head South along 101 I see surfers to my right and when the sun hits it just right the ocean surface sparkles like a necklace.

Vegabondo complained that the water is cold. Actually it has been getting warmer earlier in the Season. It used to be common for the water to remain into the low 70s well into Sep. The last few times I went to the beach the water felt much warmer than that already.[/quote]

Not complaining and not necessarily cold – I just would not call our water warm. For the record, I swim every Friday (year ’round) with my Tri group off Moonlight Beach. You get about 60 Days of water temps in the high 60’s low 70’s. Not the arctic, but not Hawaii.

[vagabondo]

[quote=MadeInTaiwan]First, I want to list what I don’t like about San Diego.

1) Weather never really changes. It is so boring. I am not saying I want to midwest heat/freeze but a bit of a season, more rain would be nice
2) We are not near the desert, we pretty much live in a desert but most keep trying to have a yard like we are in the Pacific Northwest.
3) Because of 2), very few trees except old established neighborhoods
4) Because we are so spread out there are no real ethnic neighborhoods. For example while there is large east Asian mix along Convoy and Mira Mesa it is a far cry from Litle Tokyo, Koreatown, Monteray Park, up in LA.

But then again I rode my bike home yesterday from work in RB to Encinitas. Going over the connection from Bernardo Center to Carmel Valley Road along the north end of Black Mountain I can see for miles the valley beneath to the north. (Here hoping that the housing downturn will keep it undeveloped for a while longer). I love the feel of the beach towns as I ride through Del Mar, Solana Beach and Encinitas.
This morning as I head South along 101 I see surfers to my right and when the sun hits it just right the ocean surface sparkles like a necklace.

Vegabondo complained that the water is cold. Actually it has been getting warmer earlier in the Season. It used to be common for the water to remain into the low 70s well into Sep. The last few times I went to the beach the water felt much warmer than that already.[/quote]

Not complaining and not necessarily cold – I just would not call our water warm. For the record, I swim every Friday (year ’round) with my Tri group off Moonlight Beach. You get about 60 Days of water temps in the high 60’s low 70’s. Not the arctic, but not Hawaii.

[vagabondo]

[quote=MadeInTaiwan]First, I want to list what I don’t like about San Diego.

1) Weather never really changes. It is so boring. I am not saying I want to midwest heat/freeze but a bit of a season, more rain would be nice
2) We are not near the desert, we pretty much live in a desert but most keep trying to have a yard like we are in the Pacific Northwest.
3) Because of 2), very few trees except old established neighborhoods
4) Because we are so spread out there are no real ethnic neighborhoods. For example while there is large east Asian mix along Convoy and Mira Mesa it is a far cry from Litle Tokyo, Koreatown, Monteray Park, up in LA.

But then again I rode my bike home yesterday from work in RB to Encinitas. Going over the connection from Bernardo Center to Carmel Valley Road along the north end of Black Mountain I can see for miles the valley beneath to the north. (Here hoping that the housing downturn will keep it undeveloped for a while longer). I love the feel of the beach towns as I ride through Del Mar, Solana Beach and Encinitas.
This morning as I head South along 101 I see surfers to my right and when the sun hits it just right the ocean surface sparkles like a necklace.

Vegabondo complained that the water is cold. Actually it has been getting warmer earlier in the Season. It used to be common for the water to remain into the low 70s well into Sep. The last few times I went to the beach the water felt much warmer than that already.[/quote]

Not complaining and not necessarily cold – I just would not call our water warm. For the record, I swim every Friday (year ’round) with my Tri group off Moonlight Beach. You get about 60 Days of water temps in the high 60’s low 70’s. Not the arctic, but not Hawaii.

[vagabondo]

[quote=MadeInTaiwan]First, I want to list what I don’t like about San Diego.

1) Weather never really changes. It is so boring. I am not saying I want to midwest heat/freeze but a bit of a season, more rain would be nice
2) We are not near the desert, we pretty much live in a desert but most keep trying to have a yard like we are in the Pacific Northwest.
3) Because of 2), very few trees except old established neighborhoods
4) Because we are so spread out there are no real ethnic neighborhoods. For example while there is large east Asian mix along Convoy and Mira Mesa it is a far cry from Litle Tokyo, Koreatown, Monteray Park, up in LA.

But then again I rode my bike home yesterday from work in RB to Encinitas. Going over the connection from Bernardo Center to Carmel Valley Road along the north end of Black Mountain I can see for miles the valley beneath to the north. (Here hoping that the housing downturn will keep it undeveloped for a while longer). I love the feel of the beach towns as I ride through Del Mar, Solana Beach and Encinitas.
This morning as I head South along 101 I see surfers to my right and when the sun hits it just right the ocean surface sparkles like a necklace.

Vegabondo complained that the water is cold. Actually it has been getting warmer earlier in the Season. It used to be common for the water to remain into the low 70s well into Sep. The last few times I went to the beach the water felt much warmer than that already.[/quote]

Not complaining and not necessarily cold – I just would not call our water warm. For the record, I swim every Friday (year ’round) with my Tri group off Moonlight Beach. You get about 60 Days of water temps in the high 60’s low 70’s. Not the arctic, but not Hawaii.

[raptorduck]

I almost decided to post, for a 3rd time, my “Top 25 Reasons Why I love SD.” But I realized I would probably violate an unwritten Pigg rule or something by doing that. So you can search for it.

I also agree with the “taking where you live for granted” point. While I loved living here the last 2 times I did, I still realized I took things for granted after I moved away. I hope to not do that as much this time, but I know I will.

I am actually missing some things about the Bay Area already. It does offer many things SD does not. But there are other things I don’t miss and being here 2 weeks has already solidified the strong reasons why I moved back to begin with.

Every place has a pro and a con, but I don’t miss living in New York, Connecticut, or Florida and don’t feel I took much for granted when I lived there. Maybe NYC a bit, which is a place that I love to visit, but don’t want to live in. Hey, where have I heard that before?

[raptorduck]

I almost decided to post, for a 3rd time, my “Top 25 Reasons Why I love SD.” But I realized I would probably violate an unwritten Pigg rule or something by doing that. So you can search for it.

I also agree with the “taking where you live for granted” point. While I loved living here the last 2 times I did, I still realized I took things for granted after I moved away. I hope to not do that as much this time, but I know I will.

I am actually missing some things about the Bay Area already. It does offer many things SD does not. But there are other things I don’t miss and being here 2 weeks has already solidified the strong reasons why I moved back to begin with.

Every place has a pro and a con, but I don’t miss living in New York, Connecticut, or Florida and don’t feel I took much for granted when I lived there. Maybe NYC a bit, which is a place that I love to visit, but don’t want to live in. Hey, where have I heard that before?

[raptorduck]

I almost decided to post, for a 3rd time, my “Top 25 Reasons Why I love SD.” But I realized I would probably violate an unwritten Pigg rule or something by doing that. So you can search for it.

I also agree with the “taking where you live for granted” point. While I loved living here the last 2 times I did, I still realized I took things for granted after I moved away. I hope to not do that as much this time, but I know I will.

I am actually missing some things about the Bay Area already. It does offer many things SD does not. But there are other things I don’t miss and being here 2 weeks has already solidified the strong reasons why I moved back to begin with.

Every place has a pro and a con, but I don’t miss living in New York, Connecticut, or Florida and don’t feel I took much for granted when I lived there. Maybe NYC a bit, which is a place that I love to visit, but don’t want to live in. Hey, where have I heard that before?

[raptorduck]

I almost decided to post, for a 3rd time, my “Top 25 Reasons Why I love SD.” But I realized I would probably violate an unwritten Pigg rule or something by doing that. So you can search for it.

I also agree with the “taking where you live for granted” point. While I loved living here the last 2 times I did, I still realized I took things for granted after I moved away. I hope to not do that as much this time, but I know I will.

I am actually missing some things about the Bay Area already. It does offer many things SD does not. But there are other things I don’t miss and being here 2 weeks has already solidified the strong reasons why I moved back to begin with.

Every place has a pro and a con, but I don’t miss living in New York, Connecticut, or Florida and don’t feel I took much for granted when I lived there. Maybe NYC a bit, which is a place that I love to visit, but don’t want to live in. Hey, where have I heard that before?

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