Reviews & Comments
San Diego, CA
re: MEXICANS EVERYWHERE! - 3/23/2007 -
7/9/2008You must have grown up in Klantee, I mean Santee.
San Diego, CA
re: San Diegans are not nice at all! - 11/3/2007 -
7/9/2008Oh, c'mon! It isn't that bad. Most of the people I have met have been friendly.
San Diego, CA
re: Love it - 5/18/2007 -
7/9/2008Agreed. I have lived in California my whole life and high prices is just the norm. At least we aren't scraping ice off our windshields or sludging through floodwaters, right?
San Diego, CA
re: Overall quality of life in San Diego ranks 9 o -
7/9/2008The air quality is still better than where I grew up (Bakersfield, CA).
San Diego, CA
re: Completely agree with most of the comments - 7 -
7/9/2008Carlsbad is a small town. You could always move inland to places like San Bernardino or Bakersfield where the cost of living is cheaper and jobs pay better.
San Diego, CA
re: San Diego...No longer a utopia... - 1/6/2008 -
7/9/2008San Diego isn't easy, but it isn't bad for people with graduate degrees and high-income paying jobs. You just need to be a doctor, a biotech researcher, an engineer, an accountant, or some other good profession.
Bakersfield, CA
Bakersfield is a good place to raise your kids -
10/25/2007I grew up in Bakersfield. Lived in a nice suburb, went to private schools throughout my education years, played AYSO soccer, was in the Boy Scouts, etc. Bakersfield is not the cultural capital of the world. It's primarily a blue-collar town. Most of the industry revolves around Oil & Gas, Agriculture, and Service. Housing is affordable. Air quality stinks. There are a lot of parks and master planned communities. Bakersfield has a strong tie to country music (Buck Owens, Merle Haggard). There are some nearby lakes to go fishing, boating, waterskiing, etc. Mountains for hunting, hiking, mountain biking, etc. Most of the things to do revolve around outdoor life. There isn't much of a downtown scene except for some punk music and pretty decent bars. No superclubs like Giant or Spundae here. In fact, the electronica scene is almost non-existant. However, I did hear some decent trance on one of the Spanish-language stations late one weekend. Bakersfield is a good place to raise your kids. But once they reach high school and college age, it may be time for you to move to better places (unless you really fall in love with the place). I am returning to Bakersfield next year to do some business and raise my family. Once the kids are off to college or maybe high school age, we'll probably move back here to San Diego (where we can use the saved up equity from our cheap Bakersfield house to put a decent down payment on a decent San Diego house. The problem is, most new Bakersfield houses are nicer than San Diego's housing which is old, mid-century, and unattractive.)