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Old 04-24-2008, 01:21 AM
 
Location: Sandy Eggo - Kensington
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It's true that you are interacting with people in the service industry so they have to be nice, but I know what you mean about folks seeming nicer here. I'm sure you've tried to rent a car or dealt with shuttle drivers in cities like ATL, Boston or Newark. Some of those people seem downright miserable.

San Diegans are often accused of being flaky and laid back to a fault, but many of us really like living here. Hope you enjoy the rest of your stay!


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I take it, you haven't been part to some of the crime-ridden area of San Diego yet....
Why would someone who is here on business need to go into a crime-ridden area, anyways? When I'm in Chicago, you won't find me hanging out on the South Side. I don't live too far from such an area and I find that people who live in poorer areas can be just as friendly or rude as people who are wealthier. There's really no difference.
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Old 04-24-2008, 07:57 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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I don't live too far from such an area and I find that people who live in poorer areas can be just as friendly or rude as people who are wealthier. There's really no difference.
Very good point.
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Old 04-24-2008, 03:44 PM
 
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Here's someone who had a slightly different impression of San Diego:

best of craigslist : I hate you

How much you wanna bet that he's still living here?
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Old 04-24-2008, 03:55 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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Here's someone who had a slightly different impression of San Diego:

best of craigslist : I hate you

How much you wanna bet that he's still living here?
Wow, what a ridiculous rant!! I feel sorry for that fool but it doesn't really surprise me to hear that BS from his type. He is typical of the psuedo-intellectual pretentious snobs that come to SD expecting the old world, high culture amenities of big east coast cities like Boston, NYC, ect... or a west coast city like SF. I highly doubt wherever this person went, and hopefully he went somewhere else by now, is happy b/c someone with that much animosity and hate has issues and problems that have little to do with San Diego in general and are more personal issues. For some reason a few people expect to live where everything is perfect to THEM. Honestly I am glad people like him hate San Diego and leave b/c I would not want to come across that type of attitude.
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Old 04-24-2008, 10:46 PM
 
Location: Oakland, CA
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NYC2RU,

When I was here for a pre-decision trip, my partner and I felt the same way too. It was almost like we were in some make believe place. San Diegans are pretty nice people in general. The weather and the beach have to make them happy people, and you know happy people are nice people.
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Old 04-25-2008, 06:10 AM
 
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Default There's (at least) one in every crowd.

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Here's someone who had a slightly different impression of San Diego:

best of craigslist : I hate you

How much you wanna bet that he's still living here?
It's not hard to reject such negative diatribes as you can't please all the people all the time. Most of what his rant addressed can be applied to most any city and likely has.

As for those posters who suggested I was impressed by people in the service industry I thought I'd been clear in my original post; even the people who I encountered at the client site, the people in the grocery store, the drivers around me on the streets made a positive impression upon me. And even so, I deal with car rental locations, hotels and airports all the time, all over the place and San Diego distinguished itself in that space.
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Old 04-25-2008, 07:12 PM
 
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Here's someone who had a slightly different impression of San Diego:

best of craigslist : I hate you

How much you wanna bet that he's still living here?
Yep, that guy/girl, was awesome....bravo!...America needs more people like this one. Not afraid to call it like it is, thats what I love.
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Old 04-25-2008, 08:20 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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There's a difference between telling it like it is and being a blatant a$$hole that hates just about everyone. That was just a bs rant from someone who is unhappy with their life. I'm sure he/she would hate their own parents if they pissed him/her off. I've seen many posts from you and FunkyMonkey who tell it like it is in your opinions and yet not every other word is "hate". This dude has obvious issues and needs therapy for his pitiful existence.
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Old 04-25-2008, 09:29 PM
 
Location: Paradise/Las Vegas
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There's a difference between telling it like it is and being a blatant a$$hole that hates just about everyone. That was just a bs rant from someone who is unhappy with their life. I'm sure he/she would hate their own parents if they pissed him/her off. I've seen many posts from you and FunkyMonkey who tell it like it is in your opinions and yet not every other word is "hate". This dude has obvious issues and needs therapy for his pitiful existence.
So they can't express how they feel?
That's what this site is pretty much about.Most of it is how someone feels about something and if someone is "off track" from everyone else,let them be.People have there differences so let bygones be bygones.It looks idiotic to just slam someone like that in front of everyone to see.You wanna talk;send them a message.Don't put them on blast like that.

A lot of my post get the "hate" label.You have to understand where people like us are coming from.We didn't or don't have much,it's not paradise for us and this is the way we live.It's a good counter to what the other people post about the good;you hear a lot about the good before you here about the bad.The reason why I do that?This is "America's Finest City".Everyone seems like they expect this place to be near perfect when they move or visit here when it is not.It's like any other I've city I have been to,it has it's problems.
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Old 04-25-2008, 10:45 PM
 
Location: Proud home of the Parkview Little Leaguers
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Expressing one's opinions is fine, even if they are "off track" from the majority--in fact the forum would be quite boring without differing opinions--that's what makes a forum. This guy does not like San Diego, and that is his prerogative. It is the underlying hatred and violence in his rant that are scary--wanting to "break someone's ankles and force them to be nice", wanting Hummer drivers to "go straight to hell", "I hate you" in every other phrase, etc. JK S. Bay- I haven't been on this board too long but have never read anything that hateful in any of your posts, not like this guy--I enjoy your posts. This guy's hatred is scary because to me it is reminiscent of a rant written by one of the Columbine shooters about Denver, Colorado shortly before the shooting. That degree of anger and hatred signals something much more serious than "San Diego is just not my kind of town". What is scary to me is that he mentions "his child's car seat"--this is a dad? I hope he has left, but whereever he is, I seriously hope he gets help.

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