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Natural scenic perspective, LA. Its cliffs and mountains from the sea to the desert are far more vast and monumental with steep canyons and ridges extending literally right into downtown and the ocean. San Diego has all of that, it’s just less monumental and within a much smaller region, San Diego County does have better rural farmlands, hills and deserts than LA though
The fact that the region generally gets about 50% more rainfall than San Diego also helps the greening of said mountains.
Natural scenic perspective, LA. Its cliffs and mountains from the sea to the desert are far more vast and monumental with steep canyons and ridges extending literally right into downtown and the ocean. San Diego has all of that, it’s just less monumental and within a much smaller region, San Diego County does have better rural farmlands, hills and deserts than LA though
The fact that the region generally gets about 50% more rainfall than San Diego also helps the greening of said mountains.
Good post. I was going to say in a round about way, the exact same thing.
Yeah, I love them both but L.A. takes this. The Mountains around San Diego are much farther away in East County, it's a different dynamic. Both are beautiful though.
LA. The area is just a lot more vast, the mountains are way bigger and quite a few areas match/exceed coastal metro San Diego. San Diego is no slouch and has a nicer immediate setting in the city though.
LA. The area is just a lot more vast, the mountains are way bigger and quite a few areas match/exceed coastal metro San Diego. San Diego is no slouch and has a nicer immediate setting in the city though.
I actually like everything from Santa Barbara to the Border. It's probably my overall favorite region on the Continent.
San Diego has a lot going for it, but for a great natural backdrop, LA takes the prize:
on clear winter days, you see the San Gabriel Mountains coated in snow.
People who aren't familiar with Western cities could look at a picture of that scene,
and think they were looking at Denver.
Yeah, I love them both but L.A. takes this. The Mountains around San Diego are much farther away in East County, it's a different dynamic. Both are beautiful though.
Actually from say, Hollywood, (an address I lived in) to Mt. Baldy resort is almost exactly the same distance/time, about 70 min (this is current, low traffic LA, not clusterfrick LA traffic) as from my coastal/downtown address in S.D. to Cuyamaca Mt. State Park, -both ~6000’, sometimes snow covered Mt. resorts. It’s just that LA is so huge it seems like one is well within the city until the last mountain road leg of the journey to Mt. Baldy. San Diego feels like country a dozen or so miles out of downtown so the journey feels more distant.
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