San Diego vs Boston (compared, cons, size, economy)
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Boston for me, the citizenry there do not hate on the military residents like San Diego does
That’s the silliest and most blatantly incorrect statement I’ve ever read. San Diego has the largest contingency of active duty and retired military personnel of any place on earth. 22% of our economy is dependent on direct military spending. Nearly everybody here either is, knows, works for or is good friends with somebody in the military. All sporting events every time honors somebody in the military and 95% of the people attending stand when doing so. There is not a more military proud town than San Diego, period!
To the OP, my husband is from the Boston area and I know the city quite well. I love some specific areas of Boston; South Boston, Back Bay, North End. The Colonial brick architecture is outstanding, but the rest is mostly nothing special. There are absolutely some great aspects to the city but overall I find it somewhat lacking for what it is. Driving in the city is a nightmare too. Perhaps it is the omnipresent New England provincialism that casts a weighty pall over the otherwise vibrant city. That and the weather sucks much of the time.
That’s the silliest and most blatantly incorrect statement I’ve ever read. San Diego has the largest contingency of active duty and retired military personnel of any place on earth. 22% of our economy is dependent on direct military spending. Nearly everybody here either is, knows, works for or is good friends with somebody in the military. All sporting events every time honors somebody in the military and 95% of the people attending stand when doing so. There is not a more military proud town than San Diego, period!
To the OP, my husband is from the Boston area and I know the city quite well. I love some specific areas of Boston; South Boston, Back Bay, North End. The Colonial brick architecture is outstanding, but the rest is mostly nothing special. There are absolutely some great aspects to the city but overall I find it somewhat lacking for what it is. Driving in the city is a nightmare too. Perhaps it is the omnipresent New England provincialism that casts a weighty pall over the otherwise vibrant city. That and the weather sucks much of the time.
I’ll take San Diego and visit Boston.
I can make up criteria too. Boston beats San Diego in colleges/universities, hospitals, biotech, research, professional sports, history. Wait the op didn't mention any of those. That's great you don't like driving in Boston..take public transit. How does San Diego beat Boston in the criteria listed besides weather. It doesn't.
I can make up criteria too. Boston beats San Diego in colleges/universities, hospitals, biotech, research, professional sports, history. Wait the op didn't mention any of those. That's great you don't like driving in Boston..take public transit. How does San Diego beat Boston in the criteria listed besides weather. It doesn't.
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It’s more urban I’ll give you that- as a several hundred year old city should be- (as well as gritty and dangerous...) and is more of a sports spectator town. But San Diego is plenty urban enough- and I’m an Urban Snob, I walk and take the bus and trolley downtown all the time and take in ball games, concerts, hockey, gallery openings and museums- all year long. It’s got plenty of everything else you mention also. San Diegan’s partake in outdoor sporting activities instead of just watch them.
One thing we definitely don’t have as much as Boston is snooty couldn’t-be-bothered New Englanders. We don’t care where your family hails from and how long you’ve lived in the area.
Boston is a fine city, just not exactly my kind of city to live in.
San Diego residents hate on military civilians over there?
I don't know what a military civilian is but I personally witnessed much scorn and outright hatred directed at me and my military friends while stationed in San Diego...once you got a ways beyond wherever they were playing of the National Anthem and having a flyover that is.
never saw that to the same degree in any other stateside military community that I was stationed at.
I live here in SD and people generally love the military, and there is an enormous amount of ex military and retirees here.
I just did a job for a couple from Boston and both cities are the larges bio-tech hubs which they work in, they love all things Boston but said they will never go back. They live in paradise....
I lived in SD for nine years and generally they are very military friendly. The only animosity that I ever saw directed at service members were mainly the drunk idiots in PB or the Gaslamp trying to fight someone.
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