San Diego is really losing its novelty. I am getting increasingly sick of living here. The weather is nice and it is nice to have a beach near by, but the positives seem to end there. There are constantly airplanes flying overhead, there is always someone shooting off fireworks year-round at all hours of the night (which totally scares my dog shitless and wakes us up as well), people have no respect for one another, the traffic is a nightmare, everyone seems to be a dick, people walk right through our yard and often steal our things, housing prices are unreal and even with a pretty decent paying job I still cannot afford anything other than a tiny ass condo (whcih often do not allow pets, so I couldn't buy one anyway). All-in-all the only practical advantage it has over where we used to live is better paying jobs, but that doesn't help much when you still can't afford a place to live. At least where we used to live we could own a home. Ugghhh. If it wasn't for friends and family (here and where we used to live) I think I would have already moved out of this country all together. I'd rather be poor and live somewhere where people actually give a shit about how they treat one another. It is odd how hard my great-grandparents worked to get to this country and make a life for my grandparents and here I am seriously wanting to move back to Italy and be with my cousins there.
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A lot of what you're saying sounds like problems especially true of a place like Pacific Beach which is I guess around where you live.
I moved from PB to OB/Point Loma and liked it a lot more. There's still the beach but a lot less attitude and noise. Well a different kind of attitude, total stonerville but that's better than loud obnoxious drunks.
There are other cooler areas in town like South or North Park, Golden Hills, etc.
True real estate prices are ridiculous nowadays.
Prices are on the verge of going down, in fact it's already started to slow down.