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This goes to Vancouver for me. Beautiful, fun, dense, easier on foot. Seems far more sophisticated. Much better downtown with great parks nearby. Love the pulse of the city. One of my all-time favorite cities.
Parks, are you kidding me? It's very hard to beat San Diego when it comes to parks. 23% of the land area in the city is park land. Vancouver's biggest urban park is Stanley Park, which is 1,001 acres. San Diego's biggest urban park is Balboa Park with 1,200 acres. But there are also huge non-urban recreational parks like Mission Trails, which is nearly 6,000 acres. Downtown San Diego is also developing rapidly with lots of new condo and apartment towers in Little Italy and the East Village. The Gaslamp Quarter, Hillcrest, Old Town, Pacific Beach and La Jolla are always buzzing. Besides all that, there's the world-class San Diego Zoo, numerous scenic sites like Point Loma, Mt. Soledad and Sunset Cliffs, and some of the best weather to be found. It's beautiful up in Vancouver, but how much of the year is it so overcast and drizzly you can't see the mountains?
Parks, are you kidding me? It's very hard to beat San Diego when it comes to parks. 23% of the land area in the city is park land. Vancouver's biggest urban park is Stanley Park, which is 1,001 acres. San Diego's biggest urban park is Balboa Park with 1,200 acres. But there are also huge non-urban recreational parks like Mission Trails, which is nearly 6,000 acres. Downtown San Diego is also developing rapidly with lots of new condo and apartment towers in Little Italy and the East Village. The Gaslamp Quarter, Hillcrest, Old Town, Pacific Beach and La Jolla are always buzzing. Besides all that, there's the world-class San Diego Zoo, numerous scenic sites like Point Loma, Mt. Soledad and Sunset Cliffs, and some of the best weather to be found. It's beautiful up in Vancouver, but how much of the year is it so overcast and drizzly you can't see the mountains?
Not sure how well you know Vancouver, but Pacific Spirit Park is Vancouver's largest urban park at 2,160 acres, out near UBC. Technically a regional park, but it is within the city of Vancouver.
Also Vancouver is surrounded by other parks, such as Cypress, which is 7,442 acres. It's a ski area and trails. As well Grouse Mountain and many, many other protected forest on the North Shore that is filled with hiking trails.
Not sure how well you know Vancouver, but Pacific Spirit Park is Vancouver's largest urban park at 2,160 acres, out near UBC. Technically a regional park, but it is within the city of Vancouver.
Also Vancouver is surrounded by other parks, such as Cypress, which is 7,442 acres. It's a ski area and trails. As well Grouse Mountain and many, many other protected forest on the North Shore that is filled with hiking trails.
The 6,000-acre Mission Trails Park is inside the San Diego city limits. There are MANY other parks throughout San Diego County, including Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, which is 600,000 acres. And like I mentioned before, 23% of the land area of the City of San Diego is park land.
The 6,000-acre Mission Trails Park is inside the San Diego city limits. There are MANY other parks throughout San Diego County, including Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, which is 600,000 acres. And like I mentioned before, 23% of the land area of the City of San Diego is park land.
25% of Toronto is parkland, yet Toronto doesn't have a single decent urban park that is on par with Vancouver's downtown Stanley Park. It's not about quantity but quality. Personally, I'd rather have one or two fantastic downtown parks where it's easily accessible by rapid transit and within walking distance of downtown, than 20 okay parks spread through out the city where you can only access via a car. Vancouver's downtown Stanley Park is probably one of the most unique and stunning urban parks I've seen in North America, along with NYC's Central Park and Chicago's Millennium Park. The setting is stunning, against a backdrop of Pacific Ocean and dense downtown skyline, while within minutes of walking from downtown Vancouver, the Canada Line Subway, and network of bike lanes. It's pretty much the pedestrian paradise immersed between urbanity and nature.
The 6,000-acre Mission Trails Park is inside the San Diego city limits. There are MANY other parks throughout San Diego County, including Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, which is 600,000 acres. And like I mentioned before, 23% of the land area of the City of San Diego is park land.
Not to turn this into a pissing contest but I think you are underestimating the amount of parkland in the Vancouver area.
If you are including parkland that is 83 miles from San Diego city centre, then you must do the same for Vancouver.
You don't even have to go over 80 miles to get to very large parkland. Under 30 miles from Vancouver city centre, you have 3 large parks that are connected. In other words, there is no disruption between the parks, so unless you consulted a map, you wouldn't know where one ended and one began.
Garibaldi, Golden Ears, and Pinecone Burke Provincial parks add up to 726,000 acres, and there is still a heck of lot more parkland than that. Especially if we go as far as the 83 miles where Anza-Borrego Desert Park is.
Vancouver's downtown Stanley Park is probably one of the most unique and stunning urban parks I've seen in North America, along with NYC's Central Park and Chicago's Millennium Park. The setting is stunning, against a backdrop of Pacific Ocean and dense downtown skyline, while within minutes of walking from downtown Vancouver, the Canada Line Subway, and network of bike lanes. It's pretty much the pedestrian paradise immersed between urbanity and nature.
Sounds almost as nice as Balboa Park in San Diego!!
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but I think you are underestimating the amount of parkland in the Vancouver area. 
