So what do you think? Is it worth it to live in San
Diego? Well, you're not the only person to think that
that's actually one of the top Google searches when it
comes to San Diego, I can probably pull over 100
comments throughout my videos of things people like
or dislike about San Diego, the good, the bad, the ugly,
but I want to know specifically, do you think
it's worth it living in San Diego? Let us know in the
comment section below. Now, of course, the answer to
this question is extremely subjective, it's going to
change for everybody. But I think by the end of this
video, you will have a very good idea if San Diego is
worth it for you or not. What I'm going to do to help
you analyze is I'm going to bring up some of the biggest
complaints about living in San Diego. And I'm going to
give you some context and perspective from a local so
you can know exactly what it's really like. Starting
with the fact that San Diego is crowded, and it is it's
the second most populous city in all of California,
with just over 1.4 million people living here.
But the truth is, with the exception of downtown San
Diego, both the city and San Diego County are pretty
spread out. So if you don't like the density, if you
don't want to be on top of people, if you just move
east or if you move north, you can pretty much get away
from that. And it's not going to be an issue. I
mean, my wife and I live in the city of San Diego, we
have a house with a yard, we have a garden, we have
chickens, we have plenty of space. We're still Central.
So if we wanted to get downtown we can get there in
15 minutes. And next step is traffic. I gotta tell you,
it was very nice a year ago, when nobody was leaving our
houses. There wasn't anyone on the roads didn't have to
deal with the nine to fivers. You didn't have to
deal with the ATM or the 5pm traffic that hit every
single day. As the traffic builds, it is frustrating.
So does the aggravation especially lately, according
to the research group in Rex San Diego now ranks as the
15th worst traffic city in the US, it's coming back,
it's definitely coming back. It is a challenge,
especially if you're going north to south every single
day because that's the way that most people are going
The truth is in San Diego, you can get just about
anywhere in 20 to 30 minutes, especially if
you're going from central to north or north to Central,
it's not going to be that bad unless you have to go
from North San Diego to South San Diego down to
Chula Vista or something like that, which most people
aren't going to have to do. It's not like most people
are going to have jobs in one area and have to go down
to the other one. My main thing with traffic is if you
can plan ahead, if you know where you're going to be
working, if you know where you're going to be commuting
to regularly, you can get within 20 to 30 minute
drive, no problem. And lastly, we have cops. This
is this is the number one reason when people say is
living in San Diego worth it. The main thing they're
talking about is the cost of living in San Diego. It's
not cheap, just over the last 12 months since the
beginning of the pandemic, a new federal study was
released just last week that said San Diegans are paying
more for everything from gasoline to food than just
about anywhere else in the nation. So we're seeing
inflation here at a high rate because of all the
taxes because of the housing cost because of how much gas
costs in California. And then we have housing. And
this is this is the big struggle in San Diego.
There's more people moving here every single year that
new places being built, we know that we are under
developing new properties. And it's starting to become
a major issue. I mean, ever since the housing market
crash in 2009. Developers just stopped development.
We're at about 20% of the new construction that's
happening every year. That needs to happen for the
amount of people that are living here and the amount
of people that are moving here every single year. I
know a lot of people are saying and people believe
that people are leaving California and I'm sure
people are leaving California. But people are
also coming to San Diego because they can work from
home and they want to live in a warm sunny beach
community. I can tell you I'm working with a lot of
people that are moving here from other places and I'll
be honest, it's been a major struggle working with these
people looking to buy a home in the last 12 months. We've
seen you ready for this. This is a crazy statistic.
The median home in San Diego has gone up in the last 12
months from $649,000 to $791,000. That's an increase
of 21.9% in just 12 months. Most homes are going for 50
to 100 to $150,000 over asking you're having to
compete with all these different people to secure a
home so this is the biggest hurdle about living in San
Diego if you can afford living here if you can
afford renting or finding rental or if you can afford
purchasing a house and you can get over that hurdle,
it's going to be worth it for you to live in San Diego
and what that looks like for you and for your family is
going to vary is everyone's wants and needs are going to
be completely different and if you make that work, then
you can experience the perfect year round whether
or it may be not perfect but we have more sunny days in
San Diego than anywhere else in the country the hiking
the outdoor activities and surfing the laid back
culture all the restaurants all the all the bars. This
is a great place to be in fact I believe that you can
live your best life in San Diego and I don't know why
the sun started to come out in glaze me with its
presence right as I'm talking about how incredible
San Diego is, but if you want some completely
unbiased opinions about San Diego, check out this video
I did that is all of the comments. The best comments
on my videos of what people really think about San
Diego. the good, the bad, the ugly. Again, my name is
Dan Parker. I'm a San Diego real estate agent and I'm
happy to help you. If you have any questions on buying
or selling here in San Diego, my contact info is
below and we'll see you next time.