I lived in LA for 7 years. Every time I visited San Diego, I loved it, I thought it would be a nice place to live. In the beginning of the pandemic with WFH I moved there (to La Jolla), thought I'm materializing my dream, lol. It was nice for the first few months. Yeah, there are some really nice beaches (but it's not like it's Hawaii or Florida, lol). You can hike in various areas (mountains, desert, etc). Some good restaurants. Zoo, Safari, Seaworld are also very impressive. But now it became really boring. People are just relaxed, tonns of sunburned tourists. Tech job market is pretty bad in comparison with LA and especially Bay Area. BTW, it's also not cheap at all, lol; especially nicer areas. Also, I'm really tired of constant WFH, and it started to feel like it's going to hinder my career long term, as it's much easier and natural to network and build relationships in person (obviously). Overall, I feel it's a nice resortish city with plenty of vacation entertainment. Or a good place to retire in. But I probably would not call it "America's finest city" anymore, lol. I started to really think about moving to the Bay Area for my career (and nature-wise it's also pretty nice, plenty of epic places nearbies). Especially since the moment our office in SF is reopened, even though my company allows WFH.
San Diego is one of the worst places to live, don’t move there
It is better than LA, but you shouldn’t live there unless you have kids. The people who live in San Diego are usually in semi-retired mode and have kids. Career growth is not their focus (or they are too unskilled to get a job in places that are for the more skilled).
“Too unskilled to get a job in places that are for the more skilled” Way to insult an entire city. Apple just picked SD as a location to bring 5000 jobs bc of its unskilled labor force 🙄 This statement is based on what exactly? I’d love to hear
That was in parens to show it is a side point. The main point is that people who live in San Diego generally don’t prioritize career growth. For example, most of the people working in defense are unskilled. You, for example, are unskilled in English reading comprehension.
There’s pretty much no tech jobs in SD. You have Qualcomm and Intuit which are both tier 4 companies. SD is nice if you like the life style. Personally I prefer the central coast if you want out of the rat race of la and Bay Area.
Amazon, Apple, Intel have their offices here (probably more, but just something I remembered). Some startups also.
Precovid(may have changed with hybrid work model) engineering jobs were very limited there. Amount of startups in SD is very small and don’t pay anywhere close to la or Bay Area. OP best choice is work remote and forgo promotions for better pay imo
It depends on your life style. San Diego is slower paced for sure, everyone is really chill. It has a large retirement community too, so that’s probably contributing to it. It doesn’t have that “rat race” vibe that the bay area has IMO. Personally, San Diego is a great place to visit or retire, not necessarily for anything else.
It’s a good place to coast of if you aren’t terribly career focused.
I think you have multiple issues and lumping them all in San Diego as a place. Couple thoughts: No San Diego isn’t cheap. There aren’t really nice places that are cheap. WFH and feeling bored can very easily be related. You should start a search for a location based on your priorities and then find the place that matches them. I’m relocating soon and before doing so I built out a list of things that are important to me and then I made a spreadsheet rated places I thought might fit it. Weighted it then took the high performers and chose based on intuition and job factors.
Totally agree on WFH and boredom. Lockdown also plays its role, it became much better after things have reopened. But still. I'm early in my career in industry (graduated with PhD like 1.5 years ago), so I'm definitely prioritizing that at the moment.
San Diego is best if you are to visit there for a day. Day in, day out. Other than that it's pretty expensive for beaches that are nice to look at. But you'll die from frostbite if you dare to touch the water.
In Aug-Sep 2018 water temperature was about 75-80F, pretty comfortable to swim. :) Bit it's not consistent, this year it hasn't passed 70F yet.
I despise San Diego. For me, LA >>>> SD any day
Why? R u single or family?
San Diego has excellent weather and beautiful nature. Job market sucks by Bay Area standards but now it is going through a transformation when local employers finally have to compete with remote offers. I would move if it wasn’t in CA. Mismanaged state wasting tax payer money. Just drive 10 minutes to Tijuana to see what Cali can become in 10 years
I’ve lived in LA, OC & SD. I loved living in SD, but much more things to do in LA. Just depends on what you want. I got laid just as much in LA as I did in SD.
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Yes, please people, do not come to San Diego
Because you live there, lol?
Be honest, did you really enjoy LA? Personally, I wouldn't say I like LA. Bay Area makes me ten years older; life is just so tiring there thinking about the cost of living, etc. I hate Florida weather. La Jolla just works great for me.