I guess, but you're surrounded by SUV-driving, GOP-voting soccer moms.

And god help you if you're a plaintiff in a wrongful injury lawsuit against any organization; the jury will be entirely composed of former military and police or their wives and they'll assume your case is frivolous irrelevant of the facts. I could tell stories that would make your blood boil.

I've heard people describe San Diego as a sprawling faux automobile-metropolis and I agree. Our city government is so corrupt and incompetent the New York Times called us Enron by the Sea.

Bottom line, San Diego kind of sucks (I have lived here all my life).

I suggest San Francisco instead if you have a choice.

"you're surrounded by SUV-driving, GOP-voting soccer moms"

That is starting to sound a mighty bit like Kansas. wince

I'm a native. I found the weather to be boring. It is always sunny, never rains, and the plants are either evergreen or scrubby bushes. So you don't get a sense of what season it is.

If you work there then you are not outside much though - you get into your car in your covered garage, and drive to the office park. If you want lunch, then you drive from the office park to the strip mall.

It is not a walkable place at all--even in the strip malls, to get from one end to another you drive from one spot in the parking lot to another.

2nd on the weather. I'm living somewhere else for the first time (Portland) and I just experienced my first ever autumn and winter.

I understand to the OP these responses might seem a little dismal, but SD really does have a stagnant feel to it imho.