I feel dumb asking this (San Diego, Chula Vista: neighborhood, university, live)

[jksouthbay88]

Does anyone know why there is 2 San Diego's?You have regular SD;north of NC,south of DM,east of La Mesa,and you have South San Diego;south of CV,to the border East of IB.I just think it is weird that I lived here all my life and don't know why there are 2 SDs.Finally if you know of any other cities in America that has "split cities" I would like to know.Thanx

[kettlepot]

What JK is asking is why is San Diego a bifurcated city, the main city and the San Ysidro neighborhood down by the border.

I have theories but I don't know either, and have wondered the same thing as JK. Why did San Diego annex an area that is noncontiguous with the rest of the city?

[Imperial1904]

Are you talking about Chula Vista sitting between the city of San Diego and San Ysidro which is also San Diego?

Chula Vista is it's own incorporated city. I'm guessing that it was actually a part of the city of San Diego just like San Ysidro, but then Chula Vista became its own city. I never thought of San Ysidro as a second San Diego, I've always thought of it as the border town of the city of SD.

As for other split cities, how about Kansas City?

[jksouthbay88]

No
San Diego.The area from about Palm Avenue(CA-75) down.Not Chula Vista.
Kansas City is split?

[rockx]

St. Louis is also split in 2 states.

[Imperial1904]

Originally Posted by jksouthbay88

No
San Diego.The area from about Palm Avenue(CA-75) down.Not Chula Vista.
Kansas City is split?

So you think San Ysidro is a 'second' San Diego?

Yes, Kansas City is split in 2 states.

[jksouthbay88]

Nah
I know SY is San Diego;how Encanto or PB is San Diego.

[Imperial1904]

Originally Posted by jksouthbay88

Nah
I know SY is San Diego;how Encanto or PB is San Diego.

Well I know PB is a neighborhood in San Diego.

[xdrcx]

Originally Posted by San Diego Union Tribune

In the post-World War II boom, San Diego aggressively colonized beyond the city's walls, blurring its identity.

In one hilarious land grab in the mid-1950s, San Diego outmaneuvered Chula Vista and plucked San Ysidro and surrounding areas.

Thumbing its nose at state law limiting annexations to contiguous land, San Diego created a link to the South Bay by claiming a narrow corridor in the bay. (Check out your Thomas Guide. You'll see the strip of underwater property marked in pink.)

A few years later, the city marched north and claimed a swath of land, the San Pasqual Valley, that led to a moist prize.

San Diego but a smidgen of S.D. County | The San Diego Union-Tribune
I knew about this, but it took me a while to find a reference about the city actually being contiguous. There is a thin band that leads from somewhere near downtown under the bay to the southern part of the city.

[XUCCAMOM]

I grew up in University City all my life for 30 years....the mailing address was just San Diego too.