Has anyone lived in San Diego?

[MoggyMummy]

Hello

The possibilty has come up for me, dh and ds to move to San Diego for a couple of years. Has anyone gor experience of living there? I am partularly nervous about moving there becasue I don't drive and I hear that life pretty much revolves around the car.

Thanks spub, sadly I don't like the taste of beer / wine / spirits... makes me a pi** poor Englishman and a disappointing Frenchmen too. LOL. Dw tries to drink but generally feels ill after the teensiest of tastes, so not sure the vineyards are our thing, but I'll admit they're pretty !!! Thanks for the info.

I was born in La Mesa.

"Frisco" is as bad as the others. Whilst in SoCal (Southern California) you can refer to SF it as the "arty farty sissy liberal congestion zone up north" if you like, but around Bay Area residents only the most hallowed terms of endearment are tolerated....

For my taste, Temecula is uncomfortably close to Fallbrook, where the KKK (renamed Aryan Brotherhood, i think) relocated its headquarters in 1980s... Wish I were making that up. My uncle lives in Hemet. Uncle is a lovely family man, but also somewhere right of Atilla the Hun on the political spectrum.

Everytime I go back to visit SD the trolley (public tram system) has been extended further. Although riding the public buses makes people assume you must be human scum, the trolley is ok; everyone likes it, it's reasonably clean, and few people are above the idea of riding on it. So if you can live near a trolley line that can help make it easier to get by without a car.

I lived happily enough w/out a car, but I wasn't too proud to ride the bus, & I cycled lots of places, too.

I have a question (not critism)
I have to say that I am somewhat perplexed at the San Diego view on buses. Why is it that people think that people who take buses are lowlife? (that is the impression I get)

For someone who lives in London this is a really wierd way of thinking

Cars are very cheap to buy & run, driver training isn't expensive. The test isn't as difficult as the British one. In fact, driver training was part of the high school curriculum when I was in school. Most people get a car for their 16th birthday (even in poor families). Most cars are insured such that anybody (with a valid license) can drive it.

So, most likely, if you don't drive your own car it's because you are too young, very poor or physically incapable. Perhaps mentally ill or disabled. Perhaps banned from driving.... I am making a sweeping generalisation, of course. Plenty of decent people (including the disabled) are on buses in California, especially commuters. But you get a high proportion of "weirdos", too.

I love the fact that ordinary decent people in Britain ride the bus.

Thanks Foolysh

I can't say I understand that way of thinking but I certainly can see where it is coming from now.