And what makes you want to live there?

Is it the ppl, the taxes or lack there of, or circumstances and by chance?

Your job or career?

Whether it has an air strip or not?

To be close to Gabor!

San Diego is very unique in the US it has the best weather year round, no humidity, few bugs, few animals trying to kill you in the wild.
But that not why I live here. The only down size it is controlled by liberals and taxes, fees, and regulations are out of site.

I can fly year round in shorts!!! Although anything below 60 and we add socks to our sandals and put on a snow suit.
LA is only 40 min's away by air and Las Vega 1.5 hours.

However here is why. The beach is only 15 min's away with waves in our bay bigger than on the east coast on a big wage day. Small wave days are like 3 to 4 feet surf. So in 15 min's I can be babe watching, surfing, scuba-diving, wave jumping Sea Do's, Sport fishing is unreal catch a Marlin a week if you wish and most other fist too, Sailing etc. And I do them all from time to time because I can in 15 min's. Then there is driving anything up the coast I prefer a chopper.

Or the mountains are only 30 to 45 mini's away with camping, rock climbing, Spelunking, hang gliding of a mountain that drops 4000 feet straight down to the desert, gold panning, and hunting, although are game is sparse and look like small version compare to everywhere else. I like to do all those things too.

Or there is the desert about an hour with sand dunes that go on forever where you can camp-out with friends and race dune buggies and bikes jumping 40 to 100 feet between dunes.

Then maybe the best thing is Mexico is only 20 min's am I'm at a Mexican fiesta and the party is always on, Cabo San Lucas is only 5 hours away by air at the tip of Baja with some of the best fishing in the world, San Flipie and LA Bay is only about 30 min's away.

And there is so much more.... and I use them all. It is never boring and full of action!

It's been a sheltered life for me....

Been going to Bar's in TJ Tijuana Mx since I was 15 year old when it was the wild wild west back in 1967 or 66 and people think it's wild now. They have no idea, there was this donkey woman show, and she was queen of the whory crew... I still remember the song.
I cannot describe what we did in public... Very tame now and they still say it wild, really they have no idea.

Is that where you learned to fly Nissans?

I was born in Rome, GA and bounced between Rome and Fort Lauderdale, FL for most of my youth. Summers in Georgia, Winters in Florida, more for my father's health than anything else. He developed tuberculosis in the early 40's and Rome had one of the main facilities for treatment in the Southeast.

Ray,

Yes, I run into more people than you might expect that have similar medical history involving Rome. That facility is long gone now, though. Last I heard they were planning to build "affordable housing" on the site.