Yeah, the weather in SD has been really nice this winter. Lived there for 40 years. Though ice cream trucks more common in summer, you will see them in winter too. These dumb bunnies just screwed up ice cream delivery in their hood. Skyline is mostly minority i.e. black/hispanic. Let’s just say as a white person it may be okay to drive through in the daytime, but I wouldn’t exactly be ambling along with $20s hanging out of my pocket at night.
To be VERY fair, San Diego has largely been free of the nastier virulent “let’s whip up hate against whitey” crap. a) there are only 6% blacks overall demographically. Historically a lot more blacks settled in LA than SD. And a good 35% or so people are hispanic, rest white/asian.
During the Rodney King riots where every where else was like a freakin’ war zone — San Diego had ONE incident of some a-hole breaking a window and the police were on that like white on rice. NO curfew was ever needed because people are just not, as a rule, a-holes. The night LA was locked down with Koreans shooting at looters from the tops of their businesses the San Diego Padres held their game at the Murph as usual. The city fathers (and mothers I suppose) did a GREAT job keeping hot lines open for anyone who needed to blow off steam and talk about the Rodney King verdict.
Toronto and cities way across the country had a LOT more problems than we did. I was VERY proud to be a San Diegian through that period. By and large everyone kept their cool. Also SD does not have Federal Ghetto housing like a lot of big cities back east. Makes a huge difference.
It’s nice to hear someone speak well of a city.
Maybe someday I’ll be able to visit California, I’ll do my best to include San Diego!
I never knew how well San Diego did during that very destructive Rodney King Riot time. Your city should be proud, showing that you can hold on the peace, if that is what most people really want.