Nice photos of downtown San Diego, craigs!
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Originally Posted by destroycreate
There may not be striking skyscrapers and it may be smaller, but it feels safer, cleaner, and more generally more livable than any of the major West Coast cities I've lived in...
I really miss the safety aspect of SD...I've never felt nervous walking around anywhere. For some reason it just has such a comparatively low crime rate all around.
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I do agree that downtown San Diego has come together really nicely although I do realize you're much younger than I am (if I'm guessing your age correctly), but I'm 52, and I remember back in the 1980s and into the 1990s when there were some parts of downtown San Diego that you didn't want to be in during the daytime, and parts you definitely didn't want to be in at night. Back then, the Gaslamp Quarter was still a "transitional" area. You can tell by the way Horton Plaza was designed that downtown was still kind of a sketchy area, parts of it not being open to the street. BTW, isn't Horton Plaza being revamped now, maybe even being demolished? I haven't been to downtown San Diego in a few years.
Anyway, I figure you're probably too young to remember downtown San Diego's really seedy period, so your perspective contrasts with mine; I guess my point is, from my own perspective, downtown San Diego has changed very greatly from what it was when I first explored it 40+ years ago---so your comments about San Diego feeling safer/cleaner to you and never feeling nervous about walking around anywhere kind of made me chuckle a little. But again, I realize you probably never experienced downtown San Diego's really seedy period.