Why I am leaving San Diego

[sdrealtor]

Money is not every nor does it buy happiness and I never said that. But when you have money and earn what is a well above average living in most of this country but that only affords you a very average lifestyle here it can make you miserable. I’ve seen it many times.

[NotCranky]

From Shakespeare’s King John, 1595:

SALISBURY:
Therefore, to be possess’d with double pomp,
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

[NotCranky]

From Shakespeare’s King John, 1595:

SALISBURY:
Therefore, to be possess’d with double pomp,
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

[NotCranky]

From Shakespeare’s King John, 1595:

SALISBURY:
Therefore, to be possess’d with double pomp,
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

[NotCranky]

From Shakespeare’s King John, 1595:

SALISBURY:
Therefore, to be possess’d with double pomp,
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

[NotCranky]

From Shakespeare’s King John, 1595:

SALISBURY:
Therefore, to be possess’d with double pomp,
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

[poorgradstudent]

I grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis. I can say that horrible, horrible weather aside, Minneapolis just might be the best place to live in the US. Compared to SoCal, people in Minnesota are nicer, drive better, and less obsessed with money and appearance. Housing prices are better while unemployment is historically lower than most of the country. You also nailed that you can buy a beautiful vacation home on a lake within a couple hours of the city for $100K (although you do have to go through the trouble of opening it up in the spring and shutting it down in the fall so the pipes don’t freeze).

But yeah, did I mention the terrible weather? Most Decembers I fly home for a week, where I spend most of it indoors, complaining that my mom won’t turn the thermostat above 68 at night. I come home to San Diego after and go for a run outside, sometimes in just a t-shirt. Part of why housing is so reasonable in Minneapolis is it’s just a very hard city for the elderly to live in. Most retirees sell their homes and flee south to Arizona or Florida to live out their later years.

[poorgradstudent]

I grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis. I can say that horrible, horrible weather aside, Minneapolis just might be the best place to live in the US. Compared to SoCal, people in Minnesota are nicer, drive better, and less obsessed with money and appearance. Housing prices are better while unemployment is historically lower than most of the country. You also nailed that you can buy a beautiful vacation home on a lake within a couple hours of the city for $100K (although you do have to go through the trouble of opening it up in the spring and shutting it down in the fall so the pipes don’t freeze).

But yeah, did I mention the terrible weather? Most Decembers I fly home for a week, where I spend most of it indoors, complaining that my mom won’t turn the thermostat above 68 at night. I come home to San Diego after and go for a run outside, sometimes in just a t-shirt. Part of why housing is so reasonable in Minneapolis is it’s just a very hard city for the elderly to live in. Most retirees sell their homes and flee south to Arizona or Florida to live out their later years.

[poorgradstudent]

I grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis. I can say that horrible, horrible weather aside, Minneapolis just might be the best place to live in the US. Compared to SoCal, people in Minnesota are nicer, drive better, and less obsessed with money and appearance. Housing prices are better while unemployment is historically lower than most of the country. You also nailed that you can buy a beautiful vacation home on a lake within a couple hours of the city for $100K (although you do have to go through the trouble of opening it up in the spring and shutting it down in the fall so the pipes don’t freeze).

But yeah, did I mention the terrible weather? Most Decembers I fly home for a week, where I spend most of it indoors, complaining that my mom won’t turn the thermostat above 68 at night. I come home to San Diego after and go for a run outside, sometimes in just a t-shirt. Part of why housing is so reasonable in Minneapolis is it’s just a very hard city for the elderly to live in. Most retirees sell their homes and flee south to Arizona or Florida to live out their later years.

[poorgradstudent]

I grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis. I can say that horrible, horrible weather aside, Minneapolis just might be the best place to live in the US. Compared to SoCal, people in Minnesota are nicer, drive better, and less obsessed with money and appearance. Housing prices are better while unemployment is historically lower than most of the country. You also nailed that you can buy a beautiful vacation home on a lake within a couple hours of the city for $100K (although you do have to go through the trouble of opening it up in the spring and shutting it down in the fall so the pipes don’t freeze).

But yeah, did I mention the terrible weather? Most Decembers I fly home for a week, where I spend most of it indoors, complaining that my mom won’t turn the thermostat above 68 at night. I come home to San Diego after and go for a run outside, sometimes in just a t-shirt. Part of why housing is so reasonable in Minneapolis is it’s just a very hard city for the elderly to live in. Most retirees sell their homes and flee south to Arizona or Florida to live out their later years.

[poorgradstudent]

I grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis. I can say that horrible, horrible weather aside, Minneapolis just might be the best place to live in the US. Compared to SoCal, people in Minnesota are nicer, drive better, and less obsessed with money and appearance. Housing prices are better while unemployment is historically lower than most of the country. You also nailed that you can buy a beautiful vacation home on a lake within a couple hours of the city for $100K (although you do have to go through the trouble of opening it up in the spring and shutting it down in the fall so the pipes don’t freeze).

But yeah, did I mention the terrible weather? Most Decembers I fly home for a week, where I spend most of it indoors, complaining that my mom won’t turn the thermostat above 68 at night. I come home to San Diego after and go for a run outside, sometimes in just a t-shirt. Part of why housing is so reasonable in Minneapolis is it’s just a very hard city for the elderly to live in. Most retirees sell their homes and flee south to Arizona or Florida to live out their later years.

[no_such_reality]

I’m from MN and been gone since the early 90s. How long have you been gone, because frankly, the MN you remember is no more.

My parents are selling their lake cabin, it’s in the mid-range drive from the TCs. It’s one of the last non-mcMansioned cabins on that bay of the lake.

BMWs a source of embarrasment? Since when. It just takes a higher degree of disposable income to maintain.

That scandanavian embarrassed wealth thing is gone. Long gone. The lakes are becoming the becoming the competition ground in the bigger better toy. A part of lake Minnetonka is trying to be like the Sand Bar out lake Havasu.

Be careful you aren’t pining for something that is no longer there.

[no_such_reality]

I’m from MN and been gone since the early 90s. How long have you been gone, because frankly, the MN you remember is no more.

My parents are selling their lake cabin, it’s in the mid-range drive from the TCs. It’s one of the last non-mcMansioned cabins on that bay of the lake.

BMWs a source of embarrasment? Since when. It just takes a higher degree of disposable income to maintain.

That scandanavian embarrassed wealth thing is gone. Long gone. The lakes are becoming the becoming the competition ground in the bigger better toy. A part of lake Minnetonka is trying to be like the Sand Bar out lake Havasu.

Be careful you aren’t pining for something that is no longer there.

[no_such_reality]

I’m from MN and been gone since the early 90s. How long have you been gone, because frankly, the MN you remember is no more.

My parents are selling their lake cabin, it’s in the mid-range drive from the TCs. It’s one of the last non-mcMansioned cabins on that bay of the lake.

BMWs a source of embarrasment? Since when. It just takes a higher degree of disposable income to maintain.

That scandanavian embarrassed wealth thing is gone. Long gone. The lakes are becoming the becoming the competition ground in the bigger better toy. A part of lake Minnetonka is trying to be like the Sand Bar out lake Havasu.

Be careful you aren’t pining for something that is no longer there.

[no_such_reality]

I’m from MN and been gone since the early 90s. How long have you been gone, because frankly, the MN you remember is no more.

My parents are selling their lake cabin, it’s in the mid-range drive from the TCs. It’s one of the last non-mcMansioned cabins on that bay of the lake.

BMWs a source of embarrasment? Since when. It just takes a higher degree of disposable income to maintain.

That scandanavian embarrassed wealth thing is gone. Long gone. The lakes are becoming the becoming the competition ground in the bigger better toy. A part of lake Minnetonka is trying to be like the Sand Bar out lake Havasu.

Be careful you aren’t pining for something that is no longer there.

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