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February 22, 2009 at 1:44 PM #352740February 22, 2009 at 3:12 PM #352183
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I love San Diego except that dating is rough here for a professional single guy in his early 30’s. And I don’t surf so makes it challenging to meet available women with the ratio of 2 men to every woman. Other than that, the weather and natural beauty is tough to beat. Not to mention tasty Mexican and Thai food!
February 22, 2009 at 3:12 PM #352497ParticipantMan-Diego
I love San Diego except that dating is rough here for a professional single guy in his early 30’s. And I don’t surf so makes it challenging to meet available women with the ratio of 2 men to every woman. Other than that, the weather and natural beauty is tough to beat. Not to mention tasty Mexican and Thai food!
February 22, 2009 at 3:12 PM #352626ParticipantMan-Diego
I love San Diego except that dating is rough here for a professional single guy in his early 30’s. And I don’t surf so makes it challenging to meet available women with the ratio of 2 men to every woman. Other than that, the weather and natural beauty is tough to beat. Not to mention tasty Mexican and Thai food!
February 22, 2009 at 3:12 PM #352658ParticipantMan-Diego
I love San Diego except that dating is rough here for a professional single guy in his early 30’s. And I don’t surf so makes it challenging to meet available women with the ratio of 2 men to every woman. Other than that, the weather and natural beauty is tough to beat. Not to mention tasty Mexican and Thai food!
February 22, 2009 at 3:12 PM #352760ParticipantMan-Diego
I love San Diego except that dating is rough here for a professional single guy in his early 30’s. And I don’t surf so makes it challenging to meet available women with the ratio of 2 men to every woman. Other than that, the weather and natural beauty is tough to beat. Not to mention tasty Mexican and Thai food!
February 22, 2009 at 4:00 PM #352198jpinpb
Participantburnsr77 – Having lived in NYC, I feel your frustration. Things you are looking for can be found in San Diego, but you have to go out of your way. It’s not everywhere like in San Francisco or NYC. You will have to be content w/the few things we have and appreciate it.
I can relate to most of what you’ve said, but out of the long list of things you hate, I remind myself of one thing I hate the most – COLD.
San Diego has great weather and is a beautiful place, despite its shortcomings.We have KPBS. You can seek out KPBS listeners for intellectual conversation, art, etc. KPBS is great and keeps me in touch. You have the internet. There are substitutes for what is lacking. You can live in the city and travel.
Sadly, mass transit is not effective here as in SF, NYC or Europe. We are slaves to cars here and it is demoralizing and only truly recognized by people who have lived in cities that have the ease of real and efficient mass transit.
I’ll say for those car lovers (I have a love/hate w/cars) they would scorn mass transit at all costs. I would have to agree that the 4×4 and Hummers are just excessive and ironic that the money to gas them goes to the Middle East where the soldier owners are deployed.
Everyone has different values and it doesn’t sound like San Diego is for you. Make the best of it and don’t focus on the negative.
February 22, 2009 at 4:00 PM #352512Participantburnsr77 – Having lived in NYC, I feel your frustration. Things you are looking for can be found in San Diego, but you have to go out of your way. It’s not everywhere like in San Francisco or NYC. You will have to be content w/the few things we have and appreciate it.
I can relate to most of what you’ve said, but out of the long list of things you hate, I remind myself of one thing I hate the most – COLD.
San Diego has great weather and is a beautiful place, despite its shortcomings.We have KPBS. You can seek out KPBS listeners for intellectual conversation, art, etc. KPBS is great and keeps me in touch. You have the internet. There are substitutes for what is lacking. You can live in the city and travel.
Sadly, mass transit is not effective here as in SF, NYC or Europe. We are slaves to cars here and it is demoralizing and only truly recognized by people who have lived in cities that have the ease of real and efficient mass transit.
I’ll say for those car lovers (I have a love/hate w/cars) they would scorn mass transit at all costs. I would have to agree that the 4×4 and Hummers are just excessive and ironic that the money to gas them goes to the Middle East where the soldier owners are deployed.
Everyone has different values and it doesn’t sound like San Diego is for you. Make the best of it and don’t focus on the negative.
February 22, 2009 at 4:00 PM #352641Participantburnsr77 – Having lived in NYC, I feel your frustration. Things you are looking for can be found in San Diego, but you have to go out of your way. It’s not everywhere like in San Francisco or NYC. You will have to be content w/the few things we have and appreciate it.
I can relate to most of what you’ve said, but out of the long list of things you hate, I remind myself of one thing I hate the most – COLD.
San Diego has great weather and is a beautiful place, despite its shortcomings.We have KPBS. You can seek out KPBS listeners for intellectual conversation, art, etc. KPBS is great and keeps me in touch. You have the internet. There are substitutes for what is lacking. You can live in the city and travel.
Sadly, mass transit is not effective here as in SF, NYC or Europe. We are slaves to cars here and it is demoralizing and only truly recognized by people who have lived in cities that have the ease of real and efficient mass transit.
I’ll say for those car lovers (I have a love/hate w/cars) they would scorn mass transit at all costs. I would have to agree that the 4×4 and Hummers are just excessive and ironic that the money to gas them goes to the Middle East where the soldier owners are deployed.
Everyone has different values and it doesn’t sound like San Diego is for you. Make the best of it and don’t focus on the negative.
February 22, 2009 at 4:00 PM #352673Participantburnsr77 – Having lived in NYC, I feel your frustration. Things you are looking for can be found in San Diego, but you have to go out of your way. It’s not everywhere like in San Francisco or NYC. You will have to be content w/the few things we have and appreciate it.
I can relate to most of what you’ve said, but out of the long list of things you hate, I remind myself of one thing I hate the most – COLD.
San Diego has great weather and is a beautiful place, despite its shortcomings.We have KPBS. You can seek out KPBS listeners for intellectual conversation, art, etc. KPBS is great and keeps me in touch. You have the internet. There are substitutes for what is lacking. You can live in the city and travel.
Sadly, mass transit is not effective here as in SF, NYC or Europe. We are slaves to cars here and it is demoralizing and only truly recognized by people who have lived in cities that have the ease of real and efficient mass transit.
I’ll say for those car lovers (I have a love/hate w/cars) they would scorn mass transit at all costs. I would have to agree that the 4×4 and Hummers are just excessive and ironic that the money to gas them goes to the Middle East where the soldier owners are deployed.
Everyone has different values and it doesn’t sound like San Diego is for you. Make the best of it and don’t focus on the negative.
February 22, 2009 at 4:00 PM #352775Participantburnsr77 – Having lived in NYC, I feel your frustration. Things you are looking for can be found in San Diego, but you have to go out of your way. It’s not everywhere like in San Francisco or NYC. You will have to be content w/the few things we have and appreciate it.
I can relate to most of what you’ve said, but out of the long list of things you hate, I remind myself of one thing I hate the most – COLD.
San Diego has great weather and is a beautiful place, despite its shortcomings.We have KPBS. You can seek out KPBS listeners for intellectual conversation, art, etc. KPBS is great and keeps me in touch. You have the internet. There are substitutes for what is lacking. You can live in the city and travel.
Sadly, mass transit is not effective here as in SF, NYC or Europe. We are slaves to cars here and it is demoralizing and only truly recognized by people who have lived in cities that have the ease of real and efficient mass transit.
I’ll say for those car lovers (I have a love/hate w/cars) they would scorn mass transit at all costs. I would have to agree that the 4×4 and Hummers are just excessive and ironic that the money to gas them goes to the Middle East where the soldier owners are deployed.
Everyone has different values and it doesn’t sound like San Diego is for you. Make the best of it and don’t focus on the negative.
February 22, 2009 at 11:13 PM #352415ctr70
ParticipantIf you really think about it deeply, the only thing great about San Diego is the climate. Take away the climate and it’s mostly a Sh*thole. Think about it.
Seattle, Portland, Boston, NYC have crappy weather, but they are still great cities people want to be. Take away the weather and I give the actual city of SD about a D+. If Seattle had SD’s weather I’d be up there in a heatbeat.
Oh something else positive, SD has the beach, mountains and desert, nice combo.
But:
1. the people are stupid and non-sophisticated…PB meatheads grow up and become North County meatheads2. the architecture is nasty…ever drive through mile after mile of Mississippi sharecropper crappy houses in Lemon Grove, Spring Valley, San Carlos, Chula Vista, Lakeside, El Cajon, Clairmont?…pure nowhereland nothingness! YUCK! The only character in the whole county w/ neighborhood feel and walkable areas is in the South Park/North Park/Hillcrest/Kensington/Bankers Hill Area. If it wasn’t for these areas, I have NO idea where I could stand living. OB is OK, but it can be pretty gross.
3. All the new developments are souless cookie cutter, monlithic stip center suburbia (Scripps Ranch, RP, RB, East of 5 Encinitas/Carlsbad, Eastlake)…it’s horrible nowhereland American suburbia. Cookie cutter houses and cookie cutter people. Southern Cal has done a disasterous job with urban planning. ZERO quaintness. Oregon, NorCal, New England, Washington…have done much better.
4. Downtown and the Gaslamp is cheesy, touristy garbage. Every friggen restaurant in the Gaslamp is a national chain with 97 big screen TV’s. Catering to the mental midget SD population. I don’t even ever want to go to the Gaslamp. And the weekend crowd down there… OMG, cheesyness central! SD doesn’t have the hip style and tastfulness of SF, Boston, NYC, Northwest and Europe. Pure SoCal cheese!
5. SD attracts the dumbsh*t frat boy crowd from the “lower tier” universities…retard factories like SDSU, AZ State, Chico State love SD. Students from places like Ivy League, Stanford, UC Berkley, Georgetown, Northwesten, and on & on & on…head to the Bay Area, Boston, NYC.
6. The chicks are mostly fake, plastic migrants from the OC (even worse than SD on the “platisity scale:)
7. SD lacks the progressive, urban, energetic, intelligent feel that Seattle, SF, Portland, Boston, NYC, Paris and London have. It’s a big beach/border town.
8. It’s too conservative and military dominated. The military isn’t exactly a hotbed for intellecuals and entrapreneurs.
Once again, take away the weather and San Diego it’s “Tucson by the Sea”.
February 22, 2009 at 11:13 PM #352727ParticipantIf you really think about it deeply, the only thing great about San Diego is the climate. Take away the climate and it’s mostly a Sh*thole. Think about it.
Seattle, Portland, Boston, NYC have crappy weather, but they are still great cities people want to be. Take away the weather and I give the actual city of SD about a D+. If Seattle had SD’s weather I’d be up there in a heatbeat.
Oh something else positive, SD has the beach, mountains and desert, nice combo.
But:
1. the people are stupid and non-sophisticated…PB meatheads grow up and become North County meatheads2. the architecture is nasty…ever drive through mile after mile of Mississippi sharecropper crappy houses in Lemon Grove, Spring Valley, San Carlos, Chula Vista, Lakeside, El Cajon, Clairmont?…pure nowhereland nothingness! YUCK! The only character in the whole county w/ neighborhood feel and walkable areas is in the South Park/North Park/Hillcrest/Kensington/Bankers Hill Area. If it wasn’t for these areas, I have NO idea where I could stand living. OB is OK, but it can be pretty gross.
3. All the new developments are souless cookie cutter, monlithic stip center suburbia (Scripps Ranch, RP, RB, East of 5 Encinitas/Carlsbad, Eastlake)…it’s horrible nowhereland American suburbia. Cookie cutter houses and cookie cutter people. Southern Cal has done a disasterous job with urban planning. ZERO quaintness. Oregon, NorCal, New England, Washington…have done much better.
4. Downtown and the Gaslamp is cheesy, touristy garbage. Every friggen restaurant in the Gaslamp is a national chain with 97 big screen TV’s. Catering to the mental midget SD population. I don’t even ever want to go to the Gaslamp. And the weekend crowd down there… OMG, cheesyness central! SD doesn’t have the hip style and tastfulness of SF, Boston, NYC, Northwest and Europe. Pure SoCal cheese!
5. SD attracts the dumbsh*t frat boy crowd from the “lower tier” universities…retard factories like SDSU, AZ State, Chico State love SD. Students from places like Ivy League, Stanford, UC Berkley, Georgetown, Northwesten, and on & on & on…head to the Bay Area, Boston, NYC.
6. The chicks are mostly fake, plastic migrants from the OC (even worse than SD on the “platisity scale:)
7. SD lacks the progressive, urban, energetic, intelligent feel that Seattle, SF, Portland, Boston, NYC, Paris and London have. It’s a big beach/border town.
8. It’s too conservative and military dominated. The military isn’t exactly a hotbed for intellecuals and entrapreneurs.
Once again, take away the weather and San Diego it’s “Tucson by the Sea”.
February 22, 2009 at 11:13 PM #352857ParticipantIf you really think about it deeply, the only thing great about San Diego is the climate. Take away the climate and it’s mostly a Sh*thole. Think about it.
Seattle, Portland, Boston, NYC have crappy weather, but they are still great cities people want to be. Take away the weather and I give the actual city of SD about a D+. If Seattle had SD’s weather I’d be up there in a heatbeat.
Oh something else positive, SD has the beach, mountains and desert, nice combo.
But:
1. the people are stupid and non-sophisticated…PB meatheads grow up and become North County meatheads2. the architecture is nasty…ever drive through mile after mile of Mississippi sharecropper crappy houses in Lemon Grove, Spring Valley, San Carlos, Chula Vista, Lakeside, El Cajon, Clairmont?…pure nowhereland nothingness! YUCK! The only character in the whole county w/ neighborhood feel and walkable areas is in the South Park/North Park/Hillcrest/Kensington/Bankers Hill Area. If it wasn’t for these areas, I have NO idea where I could stand living. OB is OK, but it can be pretty gross.
3. All the new developments are souless cookie cutter, monlithic stip center suburbia (Scripps Ranch, RP, RB, East of 5 Encinitas/Carlsbad, Eastlake)…it’s horrible nowhereland American suburbia. Cookie cutter houses and cookie cutter people. Southern Cal has done a disasterous job with urban planning. ZERO quaintness. Oregon, NorCal, New England, Washington…have done much better.
4. Downtown and the Gaslamp is cheesy, touristy garbage. Every friggen restaurant in the Gaslamp is a national chain with 97 big screen TV’s. Catering to the mental midget SD population. I don’t even ever want to go to the Gaslamp. And the weekend crowd down there… OMG, cheesyness central! SD doesn’t have the hip style and tastfulness of SF, Boston, NYC, Northwest and Europe. Pure SoCal cheese!
5. SD attracts the dumbsh*t frat boy crowd from the “lower tier” universities…retard factories like SDSU, AZ State, Chico State love SD. Students from places like Ivy League, Stanford, UC Berkley, Georgetown, Northwesten, and on & on & on…head to the Bay Area, Boston, NYC.
6. The chicks are mostly fake, plastic migrants from the OC (even worse than SD on the “platisity scale:)
7. SD lacks the progressive, urban, energetic, intelligent feel that Seattle, SF, Portland, Boston, NYC, Paris and London have. It’s a big beach/border town.
8. It’s too conservative and military dominated. The military isn’t exactly a hotbed for intellecuals and entrapreneurs.
Once again, take away the weather and San Diego it’s “Tucson by the Sea”.
February 22, 2009 at 11:13 PM #352888ParticipantIf you really think about it deeply, the only thing great about San Diego is the climate. Take away the climate and it’s mostly a Sh*thole. Think about it.
Seattle, Portland, Boston, NYC have crappy weather, but they are still great cities people want to be. Take away the weather and I give the actual city of SD about a D+. If Seattle had SD’s weather I’d be up there in a heatbeat.
Oh something else positive, SD has the beach, mountains and desert, nice combo.
But:
1. the people are stupid and non-sophisticated…PB meatheads grow up and become North County meatheads2. the architecture is nasty…ever drive through mile after mile of Mississippi sharecropper crappy houses in Lemon Grove, Spring Valley, San Carlos, Chula Vista, Lakeside, El Cajon, Clairmont?…pure nowhereland nothingness! YUCK! The only character in the whole county w/ neighborhood feel and walkable areas is in the South Park/North Park/Hillcrest/Kensington/Bankers Hill Area. If it wasn’t for these areas, I have NO idea where I could stand living. OB is OK, but it can be pretty gross.
3. All the new developments are souless cookie cutter, monlithic stip center suburbia (Scripps Ranch, RP, RB, East of 5 Encinitas/Carlsbad, Eastlake)…it’s horrible nowhereland American suburbia. Cookie cutter houses and cookie cutter people. Southern Cal has done a disasterous job with urban planning. ZERO quaintness. Oregon, NorCal, New England, Washington…have done much better.
4. Downtown and the Gaslamp is cheesy, touristy garbage. Every friggen restaurant in the Gaslamp is a national chain with 97 big screen TV’s. Catering to the mental midget SD population. I don’t even ever want to go to the Gaslamp. And the weekend crowd down there… OMG, cheesyness central! SD doesn’t have the hip style and tastfulness of SF, Boston, NYC, Northwest and Europe. Pure SoCal cheese!
5. SD attracts the dumbsh*t frat boy crowd from the “lower tier” universities…retard factories like SDSU, AZ State, Chico State love SD. Students from places like Ivy League, Stanford, UC Berkley, Georgetown, Northwesten, and on & on & on…head to the Bay Area, Boston, NYC.
6. The chicks are mostly fake, plastic migrants from the OC (even worse than SD on the “platisity scale:)
7. SD lacks the progressive, urban, energetic, intelligent feel that Seattle, SF, Portland, Boston, NYC, Paris and London have. It’s a big beach/border town.
8. It’s too conservative and military dominated. The military isn’t exactly a hotbed for intellecuals and entrapreneurs.
Once again, take away the weather and San Diego it’s “Tucson by the Sea”.
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