Letters to the Editor
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Welcome to the Badlands
>I'm a native-born Californian who's spent significant time in LA, SF, and SD. And I gotta tell ya, dude: It's not you. It's San Diego.
Could not have said it any better. San Diego is a thinly-spread, culture-less wasteland. The job market is tight, housing is astronomically expensive and traffic is a bona fide nightmare. Corruption is open and runs deep. The whole of southern California from Santa Barbara is hideously overbuilt and oversold. Recently someone asked me what I liked best about living here and my best answer was "It was a nice place up until about 1972."
I mean, San Diego has two large colleges but none of the experimentation or fun you'd expect. The very creepy military omnipresence makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Your will be the only car without one of those military parking stickers on the windshield.
Single exception: Ocean Beach. Check it out.