Top 25 Reasons I love San Diego

[temeculaguy]

Youth, what a wonderful thing. To have the stamina and intelligence to transform all your shortcomings and insecurities into anger and resentment.

Perhaps this “moron”, “product of a retard factory”, and a “dumbsh*t fratboy” (guilty as charged on all three counts), can offer you some pearls of wisdom. Here are four:

1. Plastic O.C. girls are great in bed
2. Don’t let envy spoil a good time
3. Despite how superior you feel, you are not any better than the garbage collector and are probably less productive, you have a very limited time in this world, the sooner you realize that you are the problem, and not everyone else, the sooner you will be able to find your place in this crazy world. It isn’t about a place, a climate or a people, it’s you.
4. And Finally, I use way too many commas, dude!

[zk]

[quote=burnsr77]wow! 🙂 i’m actually (i think) a very nice guy who’s generally easy to get along with.[/quote]

Granted, your postings here are a limited data base on which to go, but I’d be surprised if you are correct in your assessment of yourself. I’m sure you actually think you’re a nice guy and easy to get along with. And probably deep down you are a nice guy. But your immaturity and resentment are probably much more obvious (and annoying) to your acquaintances than you think. (The fact that you were surprised that your post sparked outrage is an indicator of your lack of understanding of how you affect others.)

As much as you’d love for the world to revolve around everyone’s depth and intellectualness, the fact is that it generally revolves around their personalities. In San Diego, San Francisco, New York and Kinshasha. Go to the most intellectual book club in the world, and the most-liked guy there isn’t the smartest guy or the guy who has the most illuminating interpretations of Bukowski. It’s the temecula guy of the group. The one who keeps it light and makes you laugh while also enlightening when necessary. If you can find it in yourself to understand that, you can set about dropping the angry snob schtick. You’ll find yourself invited to lots more parties (and book clubs). And you can still be a nice guy. Or, you can stay a bitter, resentful, awkward misfit. Which probably describes you better than you’re willing to admit. No offense intended, I’m trying to help you here.

Your response may be, “being popular isn’t my intention.” Which is fine (and also the creed of pseudo-intellectual social misfits everywhere.) But what’s the point of hanging around a bunch of people who like books and art but don’t like each other? If your personality is disagreeable, you’ll find so many of life’s avenues closed to you. That may not be the way you think it should be, but that’s the way it is. Trust me, almost nobody cares how much you know or how smart you are. (Unless you make it clear to them that you’re smarter and more knowledgable than them – in which they will care and in which case they will probably strongly dislike you). Anyway, whatever you’re looking for (unless it’s misery) you’re unlikely to find it as long as you’re looking from such a bitter, snobbish perspective.

[zk]

[quote=burnsr77]wow! 🙂 i’m actually (i think) a very nice guy who’s generally easy to get along with.[/quote]

Granted, your postings here are a limited data base on which to go, but I’d be surprised if you are correct in your assessment of yourself. I’m sure you actually think you’re a nice guy and easy to get along with. And probably deep down you are a nice guy. But your immaturity and resentment are probably much more obvious (and annoying) to your acquaintances than you think. (The fact that you were surprised that your post sparked outrage is an indicator of your lack of understanding of how you affect others.)

As much as you’d love for the world to revolve around everyone’s depth and intellectualness, the fact is that it generally revolves around their personalities. In San Diego, San Francisco, New York and Kinshasha. Go to the most intellectual book club in the world, and the most-liked guy there isn’t the smartest guy or the guy who has the most illuminating interpretations of Bukowski. It’s the temecula guy of the group. The one who keeps it light and makes you laugh while also enlightening when necessary. If you can find it in yourself to understand that, you can set about dropping the angry snob schtick. You’ll find yourself invited to lots more parties (and book clubs). And you can still be a nice guy. Or, you can stay a bitter, resentful, awkward misfit. Which probably describes you better than you’re willing to admit. No offense intended, I’m trying to help you here.

Your response may be, “being popular isn’t my intention.” Which is fine (and also the creed of pseudo-intellectual social misfits everywhere.) But what’s the point of hanging around a bunch of people who like books and art but don’t like each other? If your personality is disagreeable, you’ll find so many of life’s avenues closed to you. That may not be the way you think it should be, but that’s the way it is. Trust me, almost nobody cares how much you know or how smart you are. (Unless you make it clear to them that you’re smarter and more knowledgable than them – in which they will care and in which case they will probably strongly dislike you). Anyway, whatever you’re looking for (unless it’s misery) you’re unlikely to find it as long as you’re looking from such a bitter, snobbish perspective.

[zk]

[quote=burnsr77]wow! 🙂 i’m actually (i think) a very nice guy who’s generally easy to get along with.[/quote]

Granted, your postings here are a limited data base on which to go, but I’d be surprised if you are correct in your assessment of yourself. I’m sure you actually think you’re a nice guy and easy to get along with. And probably deep down you are a nice guy. But your immaturity and resentment are probably much more obvious (and annoying) to your acquaintances than you think. (The fact that you were surprised that your post sparked outrage is an indicator of your lack of understanding of how you affect others.)

As much as you’d love for the world to revolve around everyone’s depth and intellectualness, the fact is that it generally revolves around their personalities. In San Diego, San Francisco, New York and Kinshasha. Go to the most intellectual book club in the world, and the most-liked guy there isn’t the smartest guy or the guy who has the most illuminating interpretations of Bukowski. It’s the temecula guy of the group. The one who keeps it light and makes you laugh while also enlightening when necessary. If you can find it in yourself to understand that, you can set about dropping the angry snob schtick. You’ll find yourself invited to lots more parties (and book clubs). And you can still be a nice guy. Or, you can stay a bitter, resentful, awkward misfit. Which probably describes you better than you’re willing to admit. No offense intended, I’m trying to help you here.

Your response may be, “being popular isn’t my intention.” Which is fine (and also the creed of pseudo-intellectual social misfits everywhere.) But what’s the point of hanging around a bunch of people who like books and art but don’t like each other? If your personality is disagreeable, you’ll find so many of life’s avenues closed to you. That may not be the way you think it should be, but that’s the way it is. Trust me, almost nobody cares how much you know or how smart you are. (Unless you make it clear to them that you’re smarter and more knowledgable than them – in which they will care and in which case they will probably strongly dislike you). Anyway, whatever you’re looking for (unless it’s misery) you’re unlikely to find it as long as you’re looking from such a bitter, snobbish perspective.

[zk]

[quote=burnsr77]wow! 🙂 i’m actually (i think) a very nice guy who’s generally easy to get along with.[/quote]

Granted, your postings here are a limited data base on which to go, but I’d be surprised if you are correct in your assessment of yourself. I’m sure you actually think you’re a nice guy and easy to get along with. And probably deep down you are a nice guy. But your immaturity and resentment are probably much more obvious (and annoying) to your acquaintances than you think. (The fact that you were surprised that your post sparked outrage is an indicator of your lack of understanding of how you affect others.)

As much as you’d love for the world to revolve around everyone’s depth and intellectualness, the fact is that it generally revolves around their personalities. In San Diego, San Francisco, New York and Kinshasha. Go to the most intellectual book club in the world, and the most-liked guy there isn’t the smartest guy or the guy who has the most illuminating interpretations of Bukowski. It’s the temecula guy of the group. The one who keeps it light and makes you laugh while also enlightening when necessary. If you can find it in yourself to understand that, you can set about dropping the angry snob schtick. You’ll find yourself invited to lots more parties (and book clubs). And you can still be a nice guy. Or, you can stay a bitter, resentful, awkward misfit. Which probably describes you better than you’re willing to admit. No offense intended, I’m trying to help you here.

Your response may be, “being popular isn’t my intention.” Which is fine (and also the creed of pseudo-intellectual social misfits everywhere.) But what’s the point of hanging around a bunch of people who like books and art but don’t like each other? If your personality is disagreeable, you’ll find so many of life’s avenues closed to you. That may not be the way you think it should be, but that’s the way it is. Trust me, almost nobody cares how much you know or how smart you are. (Unless you make it clear to them that you’re smarter and more knowledgable than them – in which they will care and in which case they will probably strongly dislike you). Anyway, whatever you’re looking for (unless it’s misery) you’re unlikely to find it as long as you’re looking from such a bitter, snobbish perspective.

[zk]

[quote=burnsr77]wow! 🙂 i’m actually (i think) a very nice guy who’s generally easy to get along with.[/quote]

Granted, your postings here are a limited data base on which to go, but I’d be surprised if you are correct in your assessment of yourself. I’m sure you actually think you’re a nice guy and easy to get along with. And probably deep down you are a nice guy. But your immaturity and resentment are probably much more obvious (and annoying) to your acquaintances than you think. (The fact that you were surprised that your post sparked outrage is an indicator of your lack of understanding of how you affect others.)

As much as you’d love for the world to revolve around everyone’s depth and intellectualness, the fact is that it generally revolves around their personalities. In San Diego, San Francisco, New York and Kinshasha. Go to the most intellectual book club in the world, and the most-liked guy there isn’t the smartest guy or the guy who has the most illuminating interpretations of Bukowski. It’s the temecula guy of the group. The one who keeps it light and makes you laugh while also enlightening when necessary. If you can find it in yourself to understand that, you can set about dropping the angry snob schtick. You’ll find yourself invited to lots more parties (and book clubs). And you can still be a nice guy. Or, you can stay a bitter, resentful, awkward misfit. Which probably describes you better than you’re willing to admit. No offense intended, I’m trying to help you here.

Your response may be, “being popular isn’t my intention.” Which is fine (and also the creed of pseudo-intellectual social misfits everywhere.) But what’s the point of hanging around a bunch of people who like books and art but don’t like each other? If your personality is disagreeable, you’ll find so many of life’s avenues closed to you. That may not be the way you think it should be, but that’s the way it is. Trust me, almost nobody cares how much you know or how smart you are. (Unless you make it clear to them that you’re smarter and more knowledgable than them – in which they will care and in which case they will probably strongly dislike you). Anyway, whatever you’re looking for (unless it’s misery) you’re unlikely to find it as long as you’re looking from such a bitter, snobbish perspective.

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And … (drum roll) … the #1 thing I love about San Diego is: Low housing prices (applause).

Oops. Made a mistake. This post is 24 months early.

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And … (drum roll) … the #1 thing I love about San Diego is: Low housing prices (applause).

Oops. Made a mistake. This post is 24 months early.

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And … (drum roll) … the #1 thing I love about San Diego is: Low housing prices (applause).

Oops. Made a mistake. This post is 24 months early.

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And … (drum roll) … the #1 thing I love about San Diego is: Low housing prices (applause).

Oops. Made a mistake. This post is 24 months early.

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And … (drum roll) … the #1 thing I love about San Diego is: Low housing prices (applause).

Oops. Made a mistake. This post is 24 months early.

[UCGal]

I have to agree with some of the negative comments.

I left San Diego in 1990 because
a) I felt I couldn’t afford to own a house here despite being in a decent paying field (engineering.)
b) I was sick of being judged by what my car and zipcode were.
c) plastic perfect people… Blonde hair, tanning salon tans, bleached teeth… Pressure to conform to the barbie look – and I am sooooo NOT barbie material. (It may be better for guys – but as someone who was in my late 20’s at the time I couldn’t take the competition from the perfec plastic barbie girls.

I’ve lived in Washington State, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. I liked WA and PA. (Not so much GA).

I chose to move back and have no regrets. While I prefer a neighborhood that is less cookie cutter – the older the neighborhood – the more the homes personalize… so even in a tract home community like University City, after 45 years, the houses all look different.

San Diego has the weather… but that’s not the draw. San Diego has a lifestyle that is good for people who like to DO stuff. Bike riding, the beach, hiking in the various canyons around town, kayaking. Unlike WA state where you could do stuff – but in the rain… or PA where you could do stuff, but in the snow… here you can do stuff year round.

I don’t surf – but I taught my boys to boogie board as soon as they could handle the waves safely. Now my 8 year old has been exposed to surfing and is begging me to buy him a surfboard. He LOVES the water. You can’t get that in NYC. (And the Jersey shore waves aren’t conducive to surfing… as he discovered on a family trip there last summer.)

[UCGal]

I have to agree with some of the negative comments.

I left San Diego in 1990 because
a) I felt I couldn’t afford to own a house here despite being in a decent paying field (engineering.)
b) I was sick of being judged by what my car and zipcode were.
c) plastic perfect people… Blonde hair, tanning salon tans, bleached teeth… Pressure to conform to the barbie look – and I am sooooo NOT barbie material. (It may be better for guys – but as someone who was in my late 20’s at the time I couldn’t take the competition from the perfec plastic barbie girls.

I’ve lived in Washington State, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. I liked WA and PA. (Not so much GA).

I chose to move back and have no regrets. While I prefer a neighborhood that is less cookie cutter – the older the neighborhood – the more the homes personalize… so even in a tract home community like University City, after 45 years, the houses all look different.

San Diego has the weather… but that’s not the draw. San Diego has a lifestyle that is good for people who like to DO stuff. Bike riding, the beach, hiking in the various canyons around town, kayaking. Unlike WA state where you could do stuff – but in the rain… or PA where you could do stuff, but in the snow… here you can do stuff year round.

I don’t surf – but I taught my boys to boogie board as soon as they could handle the waves safely. Now my 8 year old has been exposed to surfing and is begging me to buy him a surfboard. He LOVES the water. You can’t get that in NYC. (And the Jersey shore waves aren’t conducive to surfing… as he discovered on a family trip there last summer.)

[UCGal]

I have to agree with some of the negative comments.

I left San Diego in 1990 because
a) I felt I couldn’t afford to own a house here despite being in a decent paying field (engineering.)
b) I was sick of being judged by what my car and zipcode were.
c) plastic perfect people… Blonde hair, tanning salon tans, bleached teeth… Pressure to conform to the barbie look – and I am sooooo NOT barbie material. (It may be better for guys – but as someone who was in my late 20’s at the time I couldn’t take the competition from the perfec plastic barbie girls.

I’ve lived in Washington State, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. I liked WA and PA. (Not so much GA).

I chose to move back and have no regrets. While I prefer a neighborhood that is less cookie cutter – the older the neighborhood – the more the homes personalize… so even in a tract home community like University City, after 45 years, the houses all look different.

San Diego has the weather… but that’s not the draw. San Diego has a lifestyle that is good for people who like to DO stuff. Bike riding, the beach, hiking in the various canyons around town, kayaking. Unlike WA state where you could do stuff – but in the rain… or PA where you could do stuff, but in the snow… here you can do stuff year round.

I don’t surf – but I taught my boys to boogie board as soon as they could handle the waves safely. Now my 8 year old has been exposed to surfing and is begging me to buy him a surfboard. He LOVES the water. You can’t get that in NYC. (And the Jersey shore waves aren’t conducive to surfing… as he discovered on a family trip there last summer.)

[UCGal]

I have to agree with some of the negative comments.

I left San Diego in 1990 because
a) I felt I couldn’t afford to own a house here despite being in a decent paying field (engineering.)
b) I was sick of being judged by what my car and zipcode were.
c) plastic perfect people… Blonde hair, tanning salon tans, bleached teeth… Pressure to conform to the barbie look – and I am sooooo NOT barbie material. (It may be better for guys – but as someone who was in my late 20’s at the time I couldn’t take the competition from the perfec plastic barbie girls.

I’ve lived in Washington State, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. I liked WA and PA. (Not so much GA).

I chose to move back and have no regrets. While I prefer a neighborhood that is less cookie cutter – the older the neighborhood – the more the homes personalize… so even in a tract home community like University City, after 45 years, the houses all look different.

San Diego has the weather… but that’s not the draw. San Diego has a lifestyle that is good for people who like to DO stuff. Bike riding, the beach, hiking in the various canyons around town, kayaking. Unlike WA state where you could do stuff – but in the rain… or PA where you could do stuff, but in the snow… here you can do stuff year round.

I don’t surf – but I taught my boys to boogie board as soon as they could handle the waves safely. Now my 8 year old has been exposed to surfing and is begging me to buy him a surfboard. He LOVES the water. You can’t get that in NYC. (And the Jersey shore waves aren’t conducive to surfing… as he discovered on a family trip there last summer.)

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