I’ve lived in San Diego for 6 years and I’m ashamed to say I get stuck in my own little pocket here in Encinitas and it’s tough to get out. Hey, not that it’s bad because actually its incredible here. It’s just that you don’t realize how vast the activites are that exist elsewhere, the variety of beaches (never thought it could get better than Encinitas!) and the diversity of the people...oh the incredible people, until you talk to people in other parts of the nation.
I held an open house this weekend in Pacific Beach and a guy from Upstate New York walked in off the street. He said he wanted to go to school at San Diego State University, which has an incredible Masters in Business Administration program and he wanted to live in “PB.” Pacific Beach for those who don’t know it is close to downtown (for those professionals who work there), is bordered by Mission Bay Park to the South (best water skiing!), the pacific ocean to the West and is totally surrounded by some of the most active night life, restaurants and activities one could ever imagine. Who needs a car here?? Beach bike, surfboard, skateboard, walking and jogging is the “transportation a la mode.”
The lifestyle and living opportunities are abundant. Imagine a life where you walk Tourmaline Street beach 3 blocks from your house in North West PB. You’re back in the condo or house by 8, hop in the shower, across the street for a cappuccino, then just a short jaunt to the down town office. Home in the afternoon and put the car away for the night and then you’re away for the night. Meet your buddies at the local pub, walk up the street for dinner and then stroll in the clean night ocean breezes as you head back to rest and look at the surf lit up from the bars on the beach. When you wake up on Saturday morning, make sure you go to the street fair and farmers markets.
Slap, slap….then I woke up from my day dream. Oh wait….not a dream; it was the guy from New York telling me about how he’d lived upstate for 25 years in tons of snow, ice and freezing weather. (I did the same in Syracuse, NY for 4 years at SU) But then there’s life at the beach!
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