I Miss San Diego County

[unquiltom]

My average winter bill in SD was around $40, my average winter bill down here has been around $135. I do have a pool though, so the pump runs the bill up a little.

[simpixelated]

I also live in Texas and here's a few other things I miss about SD and California in general:

• football before noon
• being able to drive to snow, the ocean, the forest, etc. within 3 hours
• good fresh produce (besides peppers and melons)
• good fresh fish (besides gulf shrimp)

I'm planning to move back to SD this summer. Things I will about Texas:

• cheap housing
• ...

[charlie_paige]

The housing isn't that cheap though, because the property taxes are a killer. We looked at a 300k house with 1k a month in property taxes.

I found electric to be more in Texas, too. Almost everything cost more. Especially food. And I had a really hard time with the quality of the food, as well. Produce would be literally rotting in the stores. Sometimes I had to adjust my menus because I literally could not get a single tomato that wasn't moldy, or they would have one unripe avocado.

And I will never miss Texas drivers. I have lived all over the US and they are by far the worst because they are so unpredictable.

I do miss the ocean fishing, it seems that it is better than the Pacific. However, we do get some pretty amazing clams here. The beaches are cleaner here, too. Texans seem to treat Texas as their own personal landfill.

[Think4Yourself]

The electric rates are lower in Texas but you use a hell of a lot more of it both because the weather always sucks and because the building codes tend to be poor in Texas so houses are extremely energy inefficient.

[tickyul]

Yes, me too.....San Diego is beautiful.

I would love to move back, somewhere in North San Diego County.......cannot afford to at this point.

So if I do move back...it will probably be to one of the cheaper, Tweakadelphia areas out in the desert.....Riverside County ( will not move to Mad MaxBernardino).