[ctr70]

I guess if you have kids places like Scripps Ranch, Poway make sense. But I would absolutely HATE it there. Total cookie cutter suburbia personafied. Absolutely no character at all. In San Diego suburbia it’s like they cut & pasted the same stip center from Eastlake to Carmel Valley to all of those new areas. Yuck!!! But people love that crap in places like SoCal, Phoenix, Riverside, Dallas…cookie cutter houses and cookie cutter people.

What can’t we have this awesome mediterannean climate, yet neighborhoods with character, walkability, quaint downtowns??… like Portland, SF, Seattle, Boston, etc??? Why does SoCal and the Sunbelt states (Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Florida) have to be this gigantic sea of stucco colored cookie cutter, nowhereland, no character, McMansion suburbia? YUCK!

Mission Hills is much cooler than Scripps or Poway. I would take a craftsman in Morley Field over Scripps anyday. But yes you would have to send the kids to private schools.

[ctr70]

I guess if you have kids places like Scripps Ranch, Poway make sense. But I would absolutely HATE it there. Total cookie cutter suburbia personafied. Absolutely no character at all. In San Diego suburbia it’s like they cut & pasted the same stip center from Eastlake to Carmel Valley to all of those new areas. Yuck!!! But people love that crap in places like SoCal, Phoenix, Riverside, Dallas…cookie cutter houses and cookie cutter people.

What can’t we have this awesome mediterannean climate, yet neighborhoods with character, walkability, quaint downtowns??… like Portland, SF, Seattle, Boston, etc??? Why does SoCal and the Sunbelt states (Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Florida) have to be this gigantic sea of stucco colored cookie cutter, nowhereland, no character, McMansion suburbia? YUCK!

Mission Hills is much cooler than Scripps or Poway. I would take a craftsman in Morley Field over Scripps anyday. But yes you would have to send the kids to private schools.

[ctr70]

If 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 meatheads

2. 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”.

[ctr70]

If 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 meatheads

2. 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”.

[ctr70]

If 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 meatheads

2. 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”.

[ctr70]

If 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 meatheads

2. 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”.

[ctr70]

If 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 meatheads

2. 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”.

[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!!!!

[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!!!!

[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!!!!

[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!!!!

[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!!!!

[Author]

Posts