Posted on 05/19/2023 12:17:45 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
General Dynamics shut down in 1992 and we were forced to move because of my job, along with about 16,000 other people affected by the shutdown. We now live in Arizona but always, like you, made many nostalgia runs to San Diego.
Last year we saw the same decay you described. it was shockingly depressing to see the decline. It has all been given up to the druggies. It was so bad, even at the Embarcadero, we did not want to leave the car unoccupied to watch the harbor Christmas parade of lights as we had done for 30 or so years.
It is beyond a shame, it is a crime what the politicians have done there. Yet, you know, they got voted in by the people that live there. I guess you can fool most of the people most of the time.
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Yep. The most important thing we should take from this first-hand report of the reality of San Diego, is that there is a couple of typos is the report. I wish the spelling and grammar police would just over-look those errors and respond to the actual posted article, and in this case the despair in the writer’s experience.
San Diego used to be such a vibrant and economically sound city. It’s a shame to see that it has fallen to such a point. The fact that the drug-addled population, who are literally dying on the streets are the ones at the age where their entire lives should be in front of them with endless possibilities as to what they can do and achieve, just makes the situation more heart-breaking. Our tax-dollars subsidize the behavior which is why more and more are ending up in such a state.
Rather than spending tax dollars on organizations that meet monthly to drink coffee and count the increase in the number of homeless in the city, money should be spent on treatment centers where these people can be involuntarily committed for the help they so desperately need.
but the ruination of all of our beautiful areas is across the nation....I hear even in Hawaii....
its purposeful...allowing these bums and druggies to take over our cities...
You should see what drug use has done to Portland and SF.
San Diego is nothing compared to those cities.
Coming to the rest of America sooner than you expect.
We used to drive from Tucson to San Diego every summer for vacation. In the mid sixties, it was quite a beautiful place.
What else can one expect from democrat politics?
Sorry, doing this on an iPad in my crazy house today was trying!
No, sorry…I have gone yearly, or twice yearly some times.
You couldn’t build enough asylums and mental health clinics to keep up with the promiscuous drug use.
Just trying to spare subsequent readers the trouble of puzzling over what the author was actually trying to say.
I, myself, was stumped by the mention that the police had "shied up." Was thinking, "Well, horses can shy... But what does it mean when the police shy?!" Then it dawned on me...
Regards,
Bookmark
It’s already there. I will no longer to go downtown Denver for any reason
Lived there 85-92, the I5/805 insanity finally got to me.
Brother lived there a lot longer before leaving, told me of some of the changes before the current bum epidemic, and it was sad.
Great town mid-80’s.
Back in the late 60s, when we’d go to San Diego, we’d go down to Tijuana to look at what the Third-world was like…San Diego was beautiful, safe an fun…to live dangerously you’d go Tijuana.
I haven’t been to Tijuana in decades, but San Diego today is far worse than Tijuana was back then…far worse. It is not a good feeling to live in a country that has fallen this far.
San Diego used to be my absolutely favorite place to visit. We always stayed in a hotel by the harbor and fell asleep to the sounds of the rigging on the masts. I’m very glad I can’t go back to see those dreams replaced by the behavior that is taking down the country that I knew and loved.
I’m in a tiny town of about 10,000 people in MA. It’s a conservative town with a square, summer concerts and a creche for Christmas. At patriotic celebrations like Memorial Day, there’s still a ceremony in the town cemetery. We don’t see evidence of the deterioration that’s happening elsewhere. I fervently hope we won’t lose this island of peace to the destruction we read about everywhere.
You are correct. America is collapsing, bankrupt and embracing Satanism & insanity. Only divine intervention can save it at this point, and that is highly doubtful.
Same where I am in another Southern state. Areas are now filled with drug-addicted and mentally ill “no go” zones. Breakins occurring in suburbs.
And we’re supposed to worry about China & Russia?
Our nation is DYING here and how, from the inside.
That won’t happen. Our nation is bankrupt, wasting trillion on wars abroad and people don’t want to work hard and do what it takes to have a good nation again.
I’m a CA native, born in North County, now an expatriate for over two decades. I left shortly after the electricity “deregulation” debacle, a good decision for sure. That said, one thing I’ve missed some is the natural beauty that’s so abundant and varied there.
I traveled to San Diego a few years ago, but didn’t have time for much sightseeing and didn’t see too much decay. Sorry to hear things have gone downhill so much, I’m likely headed that way again soon...
One can only hope sanity and common sense prevail across this great country sooner rather than later!
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