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boorite
December 3, 2001 11:04 AM

Well, should I?

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KajunFirefly
December 3, 2001 11:09 AM

only if you've killed a bunch of people and want to run away!

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attitudechicka
December 3, 2001 11:19 AM

Seeing as I would feel perfectly comfortable with the knowlege that you would still be in contact with us, I'd have to say, that's your decision, Boo. Try making a pro and con list. Example: Pro: 24 hour beach access. Con: Earthquakes. See how it balances out.

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Spankling
December 3, 2001 11:20 AM

Short answer - NO!

Long answer - That sounds like the act of a desperate man. Is there a situation, like KF suggested, or maybe a job? There are two important things to consider; it's in California and it is San Diego. One more strike against it and you should drop it like a used donkey.

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lara7
December 3, 2001 11:25 AM

quote:
Well, should I?

Only if you thought Ohio had too much culture for you. If yes, then SD is probably right on.

Is this where you were last week?

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itsclark
December 3, 2001 11:31 AM

quote:
Well, should I?
Shake shake shake...
My sources say 'No'.

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kaufman
December 3, 2001 11:32 AM

The weather's boring, the populace is square, you can walk to Mexico, tons of sailors to hit on you, ... you'll just have to decide for yourself.

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boorite
December 3, 2001 12:21 PM

I was out West last week, near Phoenix. There is a job near SD that I'd qualify for, and my wife and I are thinking of heading out West to be near family.

If Ohio had too much culture for me... heh...

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boorite
December 3, 2001 12:24 PM

I was out West last week, near Phoenix. There is a job near SD that I'd qualify for, and my wife and I are thinking of heading out West to be near family.

If Ohio had too much culture for me... heh...

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wirthling
December 3, 2001 12:42 PM

I lived in San Diego for a year. It wasn't for me. (My stint in San Diego ended after I visited San Francisco and moved there shortly thereafter.)

The weather is damn near perfect year-round and the sunsets are beautiful. There are also plenty of beautiful people and there is much beautiful scenery. I just wan't into the beach culture thing, so there wasn't much there for me. Also, the Navy and conservatism pervades everything, so you'll probably be an outcast if you don't wear the flag and vote republican. (I was once cold-cocked by a Navy squid one night while walking down the boardwalk minding my own business. All I could see were the silhouettes of Navy personnel, and I heard one say, "Hey! Watch this!" The next thing I knew I was laying by the side of the boardwalk looking up at the stars. I figure he probably picked me because I had long hair and was chatting with a homeless guy at the time, so he figured I was just a bum. I still have a chipped tooth as a memento of that event. Wow, this is a really long parenthetical, isn't it?!)

There are oases of interesting culture, however. Ocean Beach has a bit of a more bohemian feel to it, and San Diego in general has a thriving medical/biological research community. Then again, it's really nice to just forego culture once in a while and hang out at the Lahaina Beach Club and drink pitchers of beer on the deck at sunset. (Sometimes a pitcher is worth a thousand words.)

I think a large part of my dissatisfaction with San Diego had to do with where I was in my life at that point. If I didn't have the choice of living in San Francisco or Seattle, San Diego might be a decent third choice.

By the way, I wouldn't recommend going to Tijuana. I found it highly depressing. It's a misanthrope's nightmare come to life...

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ObiJo
December 3, 2001 1:06 PM

San Diego and San Francisco are two of my favorite cities. (wirthling, you lucky bastard.) I haven't been to either in about 10 years, and people have told me both cities have gone down hill since then. But I know they're still on the Pacific Ocean, and that's good enough for me.

You're on the ocean, the weather's great, you're close to family, it's a change of pace, and you can wear your heart boxers to the beach.

I'd go for it.

P.S. San Diego, a republican town? I never knew that. That city keeps getting better and better.

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Spankling
December 3, 2001 1:24 PM

quote:
P.S. San Diego, a republican town? I never knew that. That city keeps getting better and better.
It is a John Birch town.

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ObiJo
December 3, 2001 1:42 PM

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It is a John Birch town.
If that's true, one of my favorite cities is ultra-conservative (SD) and one is ultra-liberal (SF).

It's too bad cities aren't sentient. Then we could have them leg wrestle for water rights.

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bunnerabb
December 3, 2001 2:20 PM

No.

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gabe_billings
December 3, 2001 4:06 PM

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No.

Aren't you supposed to not be here?

I vote you move. 'Cause sooner or later I'll be in the Pacific Northwest. And then maybe they'll make some sort of super-duper-monorail that I can take down the coast to visit you.

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TheElPaso
December 3, 2001 4:13 PM

It's nice for a while, but it gets REALLY boring REALLY fast, because nothing happens there, except of course for the Navy. The local news is really several pages of obituary, followed by a list of who's been caught smoking crack. So don't go there unless you can take the torture of boredom.

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bunnerabb
December 3, 2001 4:23 PM

quote:

Aren't you supposed to not be here?
quote:

Bah.

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wirthling
December 3, 2001 4:26 PM

Ooh! I forgot to mention something--the Mexican food in San Diego is fantastic. The one thing I miss most about San Diego is Carne Asada burritos with fresh guacamole (you can pick avocados right off the tree and make your own, too)...

quote:
The local news is really several pages of obituary, followed by a list of who's been caught smoking crack.

Don't forget about the occasional shootings of unarmed motorists by the S.D. police. That was a frequent news story when I was there, anyway...

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ladyjdotnet
December 3, 2001 4:49 PM

No.

You should at least wait until after January, when I will be in CLE and will be wanting to get together with locals.

Then, when you're driving through on your way west, I'll already know you and might feel comfortable offering you free crash space for a night.

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Kitty_Kat
December 3, 2001 6:13 PM

I lived in SD for about 2 yrs, and most of my family live there, but I still hate it. The people there are snobs, and they never forget your first impression. My dad was in the Navy, so I lived all over the US. I hated San Diego the most.

PS-the ugly houses cost more than a mansion in TN, and some people there are VERY crazy.

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joshw
December 3, 2001 8:44 PM

They still think you are a boy.

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Bogart
December 3, 2001 9:00 PM

Up in Seattle we call folks from the long state "Californicators." Please consider the future ramifications of having ever lived there.

Keith Knight covers San Diego in his comic book convention strips. The second one is more relevant.

http://www.salon.com/comics/knig/2001/04/25/knig/index.html
http://www.salon.com/comics/knig/2000/07/26/knig/index.html

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JrnymnNate
December 4, 2001 7:53 AM

All I know about this issue is:

EAST COAST OWNZ WEST COAST

Where else can you find BosWash?

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gabe_billings
December 4, 2001 6:15 PM

quote:
No.

You should at least wait until after January, when I will be in CLE and will be wanting to get together with locals.

Then, when you're driving through on your way west, I'll already know you and might feel comfortable offering you free crash space for a night.



It's gonna be a hell of a commute for him from Baltimore.

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ladyjdotnet
December 4, 2001 6:37 PM

quote:
quote:
No.

You should at least wait until after January, when I will be in CLE and will be wanting to get together with locals.

Then, when you're driving through on your way west, I'll already know you and might feel comfortable offering you free crash space for a night.



It's gonna be a hell of a commute for him from Baltimore.

D'oh! I thought he was one of the Ohioans.

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descolada99
December 4, 2001 7:42 PM

No.

Three words why not: Killer Fucking Bees

I hate bees.

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lara7
December 4, 2001 7:49 PM

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D'oh! I thought he was one of the Ohioans.

Like you, he's a former Ohioan. which is prolly the best kind of Ohioan to be, actually...

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ladyjdotnet
December 4, 2001 8:00 PM

quote:
No.

Three words why not: Killer Fucking Bees

I hate bees.



That's so funny. Guess what my first attempt at stripcreator art is.

DexX has agreed to collaborate with me and help me finish what I'm drawing. I just finished drawing two characters, and scrapped all the work I was putting into a movie theater box office background because it's too hard and I keep fucking up.

I'm going to scan these and put them up for DexX to get whenever he wakes up. I can't wait to see them finished. Whee!

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Bogart
December 4, 2001 8:39 PM

quote:
All I know about this issue is:

EAST COAST OWNZ WEST COAST

Where else can you find BosWash?



Back when I used to smoke cigs I happened to be sitting in a diner in Boston. I had finished my eggs and was about to light up. In walks a man and I see the only available seat is next to me. I stuff my smokes back in a pocket - he's only beginning to eat after all - my attempt at being a polite smoker.

But he pulls out a pack of cowboy killers and lights up - so I light a camel. Then he says, "I wish they'd make these things illegal. Then I would quit."

I replied, "What would that have to do with it?"

It seems to me that these two viewpoints reflect the difference between the East and West coast. Or maybe it's just Boston.

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andydougan
December 4, 2001 8:42 PM

Where I come from, if they made them illegal, more people would take them up.

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JrnymnNate
December 4, 2001 9:17 PM

I remember being in New York one time, and we ate at a fabulous chinese reastraunt on the second floor of a building near that replica of the arc de triomph, or whatever it is. Their duck was great.

Then we were in Washington, and we went the the museum of American Culture, or something like that. I saw SS agents on the roof of the white house. We ate cheap.

We went to boston to visit someone for church or something. For some reasons I don't recall, Joft came with us. We went to a little reastruant, and he ordered steak. We wern't exactly carying alot of money, so this provides reason for giggling rememberance of that date between me and my sister now.

In Portland, we went down to the docks and shoped around the little stores that were there. Then we went to an amusment center, and ate at someone's house.

We once stoped in Plymouth on our way to Brewster MA. We stayed at a realy neat hotel and ate at a quaint greasy fast food place on the water.

On our way up from the south once, we drove through the islands on the coast of virgina. We had lunch against a beutiful sunset at a cool little joint that had great Clam Chowder.

It must be the fasting that's doing this.

Out of all the cities, I think that NY was the coolest though.

My point(if any) was... something like, food, uh, Atlantic, er, east...
uh never mind.

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boorite
December 7, 2001 8:17 AM

Thanks, everyone, for your replies and all the nice shit you say. I probably won't move to SD after all, but I don't think I'd mind. I'm not taking much advantage of the culture in DC, except for food, and SD has that. Maybe I'd miss DC's culture more if I didn't have access to it. Anyway, it'd be nice to live in a place where you could do some kayak touring in summer without being eaten by flies the size of surveillance blimps.

Also, I hear there's a nude beach right by UCSD.

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Spankling
December 10, 2001 9:34 AM

Better SD than ole Virgini...

Dec 10 1792: "That if any do commit the detestable and abominable vice of Buggery, with man or beast, he or she so offending, shall be adjudged a felon, and shall suffer death, in the case of felony, without the benefit of Clergy." (Act of General Assembly of Virginia)

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boorite
December 10, 2001 9:38 AM

Ye olde buttfucking lawes.

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