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san diego really sucks if you don't have a car. most of the startup stuff is biotech.
by henning 19y ago
san diego really sucks if you don't have a car.
most of the startup stuff is biotech.
- doubleplus 19y agosan diego really sucks anyway. and that's coming from a native. :)
- kirubakaran 19y agoI heard you guys have the best weather... no?
- henning 19y agoI 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.
- Xichekolas 19y ago"you're surrounded by SUV-driving, GOP-voting soccer moms" That is starting to sound a mighty bit like Kansas. wince
- food79 19y agoI'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.
- doubleplus 19y ago2nd 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.
- pfedor 19y agosan diego really sucks if you don't have a car. As opposed to the Silicon Valley??
- jey 19y agoI'm a San Diego expat who now lives in San Francisco without a car. I love it. I just wish we had SD weather here...
- benmathes 19y agoSan Francisco proper and the middle of the Valley (Palo Alto, Menlo Park, etc.) are very different -- from San Mateo down to San Jose you pretty much need a car since everything is very flat and spread out compared to, say, Manhattan or Boston.