San Diego Or Tampa, Fl?

[Hawaii4evr]

Oh, I am leaving San Diego, for college, and never returning here to live. To visit it's nice, but the weather for me is very overrated, and it's WAY overpriced here.

[earlyretirement]

Originally Posted by sdurbanite

And what would a high school kid in Oceanside know about living in SD? You know nothing.

Originally Posted by Hawaii4evr

Oh, I am leaving San Diego, for college, and never returning here to live. To visit it's nice, but the weather for me is very overrated, and it's WAY overpriced here.

Funny. I thought you were just joking around sdurbanite. But is this OP really only a high school kid? I guess things make more sense now.

[sdurbanite]

Originally Posted by earlyretirement

Funny. I thought you were just joking around sdurbanite. But is this OP really only a high school kid? I guess things make more sense now.

Yeah, his profile says he's in high school, so we should all cut him some slack

[Native Transplant]

Originally Posted by Clevelandgal

Ok really, fess up, how much time have you spent there? because other than not being dry tampa is equally conservative if not more so, far more culturally bland and HORRIBLY sprawly. Nicer people? In my opinion, no difference at all. I love San Diego although I would be hard pressed to call it a eutopia either so i agree its silly when people get all batt $hit goofy about it. At this point I don't want to live anywhere else in the US but I am fully aware from living and visiting other places there are many other cities with their own terrific attributes. I can't help think from your posts you really need to get out and explore the world a little more rather than have fantasies about the grass being greener everywhere else. Go do it! Maybe you will find your nitch or maybe you will start a thread 5 years from now, lamenting how you never should have left and want to return.

I'm a native, and once-again resident, of San Diego. I currently live in the Hillcrest district.

I did live in the TB area for two years, but not since the early '90's. I lived in Belleair, Pinellas County, which is right outside the county seat, Clearwater. I had a very hard time with the humid weather, and the rain storms. I'm very heat sensitive; even more so now. Frankly, I'd probably be living in Boise were it not for family issues.

I enjoyed the flora of Florida, and to an extent the cityscape. But frankly, in that regard, one town is like the next, all the way downstate.

Clearwater is known to be a site of the Scientologists, IIRC. But I never had any run ins with them. But frankly, I attracted Christians like honey attracts bees. That was a little hard, to say the least. Some of them can be scary in how they force the Bible on you.

I've lived various places, and San Diego isn't my favorite, but it beats TB by a long shot. Good transport, a nice pier downtown that has occasionally hosted national level boat races, very disparate neighborhoods, moderate politics.

[tonyinsd]

One of the things you will soon learn about when you go to college is the law of supply and demand.

The reason San Diego is expensive is because people want to live here.

You could find cheap housing in the middle of the desert, but that's because very few people want to live there.

I can buy a four bedroom single family home in El Centro for less than the price of a one bedroom condo in Little Italy. That's because very few people want to live in El Centro, and a lot of people want to live in Little Italy.

Any place that's attractive to live will cost you money. It's just that simple.

[earlyretirement]

Originally Posted by tonyinsd

One of the things you will soon learn about when you go to college is the law of supply and demand.

That is exactly right. You can't even go by median incomes/salaries in a city. It typically just boils down to supply and demand on pricing.

There are many cities around the world where they are developing countries or they are developed but there is such massive extreme poverty, yet real estate prices are extremely expensive due to supply and demand.

[Clevelandgal]

Originally Posted by Hawaii4evr

Oh, I am leaving San Diego, for college, and never returning here to live. To visit it's nice, but the weather for me is very overrated, and it's WAY overpriced here.

Are you going in FL? Just curious because I got my undergrad and grad degrees from S. FL. As I mentioned earlier in this thread (or one of the others comparing the 2 places), the whole situation worked for me at the place I was in life-poor, completely on my own, hardworking, and willing to live frugally. But glad to get out. My step dau if also going to college in FL and she talks about moving to SD when she graduates. She thinks the whole state of FL is a dump. We tell her as long as she can supprt herself in a short mattofmourmlife time AND stays out of debt (which she has no excuse to be in since we and her mother pay for nearly everything but recreation spending and gas...but kids seem to like to take out credit cards these days, so who knows) then she should go for it.
As a side note, many people, especially the younger ones such as yourself think their home town is just HORRIBLE! It doesn't matter of its Fresno or NYC, they are sick of it, and disparage it since they have not really experienced anything else (and by "experiencing"I mean living in, not a vacation).