Living in San Diego vs San Francisco - I've Lived in Both

Are you debating living in San Diego vs San Francisco? I've lived in both, and spoiler alert; We ended up moving back to San Diego.
Don't get me wrong, I have so much love for San Francisco, and we visit as often as possible. But for us, it was important for several reasons to move back down south.
I'll share why in this video!
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[@NaturalyCaffeinated]

I love both cities too--lived in SF for 9 years and living in SD for 2 years. SF: amazing transit system, city wine walks (miss those), Folsom Street Foundry (game nights) and many venue bars, more street smart and thick-skin people (not fickle), Golden Gate Park, more walkable nightly events in general and Rainbow Grocery SD: amazing weather, beaches, vibrant food scene, hiking spots, close to LA and MX, cleaner streets in general, stable economy (biotech, defense and healthcare), progressive green urban development and policies, lots of high profile breweries, cheaper rent, better EDM festival scene, Balboa Park (it's like its own frickin country), Comic Con, TwitchCon and O.B. People's Organic Food Market.

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

I do miss Rainbow Grocery!

[@ryanhsia7525]

@@DanPBestLifeSD I do too. Rainbow Grocery is A LOT bigger than O.B.'s but O.B.'s has its own charm and an amazing deli. They used to have chic cafe next door but closed down due to poor management. I hope they reopen it!

[@elo_888]

Better edm festivals? Nice

[@MaluSnediker]

Excellent video. You are on point with the comparison between SD and SF. I lived in the Bay Area for almost 45 years and moved to SD 7 years ago. It took me awhile to adjust and adapt to the lack of diversity in food choices. Public transportation is lacking in SD. After being in SD for 7 years now, I am loving the more relaxed lifestyle, more courteous drivers on the road, and most of all the weather.

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

Glad to have you back!

[@user-pw1xf1rk4l]

There is definitely a reason why San Diegos is well known as the finest city in the country, because it truly is! No place else can hold a candle to it! L O L

[@leiracines8385]

Being a native of the SF Bay Area, your evaluation of SF is right ont the money! Good job! 👍

[@pixieofthedesert9951]

I have been living in San Francisco for the past 4 years and am moving to San Diego in two months! Your perspective really helps. Basically all that I was worried about that would be different in San Diego is true haha

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

Haha, you will love it I promise! Any questions let me know. Best of luck on the move

[@Ask-Isa]

San Francisco and San Diego are both great cities in different ways. San Francisco is more bustling. It's a strong mix between a condensed cosmopolitan city and a city which loves its parks and nature. San Diego has better weather, nicer beaches, is far cleaner and far safer. I feel so relaxed whenever I visit San Diego. But there is definitely more to do and see in San Francisco. That being said, the crime rate in San Francisco is truly bad. Nearly everyone I know have had their cars broken into, homes burglarized or been mugged at some point. I worked downtown San Francisco for 5 years. It was exciting, fun, frustrating and at times, scary.

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

Yikes! SF sure has changed over the last 5ish years

[@macanaman5172]

Daygo because of the weather

[@TAYLOR8mm]

I live in San Francisco, never been to San Diego but I LOVE my city. I LOVE the cool weather here so much I would not leave it!

[@waldoaponte]

Saludos desde Perú, algún día viviré en San Diego, gran video.

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

Gracias?

[@u_s_e_r1]

Зачем США, если есть Австралия? Это как бежать на отбывающий с порта Титаник. Если тебе нравится vibe Калифорнии, то лучше тот же Сидней

[@jasongotcello]

Been to both, and personally I like San Francisco more even though I was born in San Diego

[@kabysummit5801]

SF is very walkable. Suits me.

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

Very walkable!

[@norwegianblue2017]

Far more people are leaving San Francisco and real estate prices have dropped quite a bit there. I think that says a lot. It's a great, historic city, but it needs to get itself back where it was ten or fifteen years ago.

[@SwimMaster101]

Great video for me considering a move to either of those cities after living in Japan for many years. 🙇🏼‍♂️

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

Very cool! Good luck

[@billmelichar6822]

San Diego is far superior. I love both cities, and both have a lot of things to do, but I'm in this for the climate and beaches. San Francisco too cool on both fronts. I live in Oceanside.

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

Appreciate the response!

[@robschannel6223]

Oceanside is ghetto.

[@billmelichar6822]

@@robschannel6223 You're ghetto! Oceanside is a very nice suburban community with any convenience you could ask for. Wherever you live in Oceanside you are also just minutes from the beach. It is also a great location for getting to all of the attractions San Diego, and Orange County have to offer.

[@robschannel6223]

@@billmelichar6822 keep telling yourself that. It’s filled with out of state, aggressive grunts, crusty skaters and gangsters.

[@billmelichar6822]

@@robschannel6223 I used to manage a restaurant here years ago, and I moved to Phoenix for a while. I was looking for a home in downtown San Diego, but glad I decided on Oceanside since it is a much nicer, and safer area. I have never seen what you describe! You should keep your negativity to yourself. Where do you live that is so special?

[@johnnycashlives316]

There are not enough clubs for music in San Diego????

[@AbrahamYunis]

I’d love to see a comparison of San Diego County Vs Bay Area as a whole. For example, 35 minutes from San Francisco today I’m finding homes, beautiful homes. Under $600,000 while there isn’t anything 35 minutes from San Diego which is anywhere near that price.

[@AbrahamYunis]

Also, in the Bay Area you have 3 major airports to choose from. And 4 major cities to choose from. Airports: San Jose, Oakland, SF. Cities: Berkeley, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose. While in San Diego you have 1 airport buttt you do gain Tijuana and that airport for travel as well. Job opportunities in the Bay Area…way more. That’s why I’d like a comparison that would be SF 40 mile radius vs San Diego 40 mile radius. San Diego loses the radius because 40 miles south doesn’t exist because that’s Mexico, 40 miles north gets you to Riverside county, 40 miles east is desert area with nothing. But, in the Bay, a 40 mile radius still keeps you in the Bay Area generally speaking. Antioch/Bay Point etc, Hayward, Santa Cruz, all Bay Area areas of course. SF wins.

[@rezatashakori2]

Every one leaves la and sf and comes to SD not the way around haha San Diego for sure but there’s more business in SF for sure

[@bloozy7350]

Yeah but sf rent is just out of this world and there’s a huge homeless crisis here

[@sterlingmarshel6299]

they buy second homes in SD - its much cheaper compared to SF for sure

[@InsighterofTech]

San Diego and San Francisco are both amazing places to live. San Francisco is more hustling and bustling. It has more city life. San Diego is nice and chill.

[@cesaravila4053]

True that. But also SD has downtown, gaslamp distric, breweries 🍻 like nobody, and roof top restaurants and bars

[@melanierxgo]

Thankyou

[@user-pw1xf1rk4l]

I’m sure you can’t tell me anything about San Diegos that I wouldn’t already know! Lol that is my most favorite place in the entire country to live! And I did for many years! I know all corners of San Diego quite well!

[@user-pw1xf1rk4l]

I lived in San Diego for many years, and although San Francisco is a beautiful and quite diverse city, and I do like it, it can’t hold a candle in my opinion to San Diego!! Lol 1st and foremost, the climate is much much more pleasing in San Diego! L O L and I like the whole San Diegos vibe much better also!

[@robertsabharwal9787]

San Francisco is actually around 49 sq miles ... 7 x 7 miles on each side.

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

Thank you, and apologies if I said anything else. Maybe I said 7 sq miles? If so, that's what I meant so thank you for the correction 😜

[@AbrahamYunis]

Also, in the Bay Area you have 3 major airports to choose from. And 4 major cities to choose from. Airports: San Jose, Oakland, SF. Cities: Berkeley, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose. While in San Diego you have 1 airport buttt you do gain Tijuana and that airport for travel as well. Cities = 1 city San Diego. Job opportunities in the Bay Area…way more. That’s why I’d like a comparison that would be SF 40 mile radius vs San Diego 40 mile radius. San Diego loses the radius because 40 miles south doesn’t exist because that’s Mexico, 40 miles north gets you to Riverside county, 40 miles east is desert area with nothing. But, in the Bay, a 40 mile radius still keeps you in the Bay Area generally speaking. Antioch/Bay Point etc, Hayward, Santa Cruz, all Bay Area areas of course. SF wins.

[@Ginger30161]

San Francisco is technically a bit over 49 square miles (~7 miles by 7 miles).

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

Touche!

[@5000NATE]

But I want to move to San Diego

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

Do it!

[@lorigetz4489]

I like SD a lot but SF is a far more sophisticated and cosmopolitan town. The rents in SF are twice as much as SD and mortgages, three times.

[@donnydomingo9962]

Yes homeless people crapping, exposing themselves and peeing, shooting up, stabbing people, breaking bottles on the sidewalk right in front of the doorway to your building where you live (true story) all very sophisticated and cosmopolitan.

[@5000NATE]

I was born in San Francisco I grew up in a very bad neighborhood called the tenderloin it's very busy congested but it's my home

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

I've been to the Loin

[@GSM92]

I grew up in the t bone

[@gillroygarlic3616]

Grew up in the Excélsior. I hated going downtown, just a bunch of people lost in despair or lost in greed, lost in the daily grind. I can’t even think.

[@ameliabedelia7018]

I’m looking for the city with the best sex shops. Toys are so expensive and I need to test them out in person. Amazon does not allow me to return my sex toy purchases.

[@beatrizrodriguez1191]

I rather live in San Diego no doubt. It is way more affordable than San Francisco. I haven’t lived in neither, although I had visit both cities back in 2017. I can totally say that San Francisco is very expensive. Traveling there was expensive, now imagine living there?! Oh my haha you have to have great resources to be able to afford living in San Francisco. So definitely I rather live in SD. I mean you can still travel to San Francisco.

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

Thanks for the response Beatriz! I personally agree, and I think there are probably more people thinking that way with everything going on in the world. Living in a big, compact city right now has it's downsides.

[@cmad2345]

False. San Diego is the most unaffordable city in the untied states. San Francisco pays you way more.

[@techreviews1462]

@@cmad2345 But it is more expensive than San Diego and is affordable compared to San Francisco.

[@gina-gz2zs]

You must be talking to the young people like yourself!

[@user-pw1xf1rk4l]

And I would need and have a car in, any city that I chose to live in regardless! L O L

[@AdussFadass]

You should mention the crime rate between the two cities. One is much safer the and other will have your window smashed in broad daylight while your standing 20ft from your car.

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

I've had my car broken into in SF before. Unfortunately as a real estate agent I'm restricted from giving my opinion on crime rates, which is why I always recommend other sites to get that info.

[@denizli2787]

Hey buddy if you live San Diego you are so relax also you stuck no where to go except TJ👉👀

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

Thanks?

[@cmad2345]

San Diego has always had the best Mexican food in the country. San Francisco is nowhere near as good of a food city as San Diego

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

Agreed!!

[@sterlingmarshel6299]

Mexican food is your reason - SF has everything else better than SD - not even a debate. SF literally has every nationality of food. Tacos yes SD for the win

[@Ask-Isa]

I love San Diego, I truly do. And San Diego is better than San Francisco is a number of ways. But the food scene is FAR superior in San Francisco. San Francisco is easily a top 5 food city in the US. San Diego isn't top 10.

[@anthonydavid5121]

Spent half my life in SF. Lived in SD however for 1 year in the mid 1990s. SF gets way more and way bigger EARTHQUAKES therefore SF is the winner!!!

[@quiet_jefe2479]

Which ones better for a single guy in his early 30s? 🤔

[@seiljang352]

I heard that San Diego is somewhat boring for a single guy, but good for a family with child.

[@hellisgood666]

You'll be competing with thousands of military dudes so you'll be good when they deploy 😆

[@quiet_jefe2479]

@@hellisgood666 🤣🤣

[@cmad2345]

@@seiljang352 lol anyone who said San Diego is boring is on something strong or just a lame

[@snickers619]

San Diego most def better Mexican food and weather.. Bay Area people are way more woke and chill at the same time.. San Diegans can be kinda assholes

[@miguelhidalgo9372]

Lordy, this video presentation is lopsidedly wrong. First, stay in crampy S.F. Next, believe it not, in the next few years, San Diego "FIGHTERTOWN, U.S.A." is replacing S.F. in many categories including technology, bio-sciences, housing and land values (prices are going to skyrocket), and shall keep the title as "America's Finest City." In about 3 - 5 years, downtown (all the districts) is getting a fresh look to look absolutely gorgeous! Seaport Village, Embarcadero, and East Village! Let us compare the transportation system to Hong Kong, and never to filthy unkempt BART. I tossed my car two years ago and have no difficulties using magnificent Trolleys, MTS, Amtrak, Coaster, Sprinter, NCTD, and Breeze. Metrolink to Los Angeles is another option to get back and forth. To add more spice, San Diego is adding bicycle lanes, but try riding a bicycle with kids around hilly downtown S.F. without getting mugged, jumped, or run over. Finally, on my last visit, the homelessness, pins, needles, and crap spewed on the streets is out of control 😳 in San Francisco. UPDATE: I just reviewed another one of your videos. Now, that you're in San Diego, WELCOME HOME! I am thrilled about the decision to raise your children in San Diego. Take them to Old Town. Invest a day with them at the San Diego Maritime Museum and USS Midway. Take care!

[@SuaveG310]

No Disrespect to San Fran but its Dirty up there aside from Basically the Northwest section of the city near the Golden gate everything else when you Compare it to San Diego and the weather down here 💯

[@californiamade5608]

Dude stop. San Diego is dirty too. N not everywhere in San Francisco is dirty.

[@kristennosky3239]

This is accurate

[@jj-bv3ui]

But what's there to do in San Diego

[@dylanarthur5526]

At least in San Diego you won't get car jacked like 20x a day.

[@user-pw1xf1rk4l]

OK I’m not even barely passed halfway of this video and I can clearly see that you’re just partial to San Francisco over beautiful San Diego for some weird reason. So I don’t need to watch the rest of this! Lol.

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

Well I currently live in San Diego and think it’s the best place to live on the planet, so maybe you need to finish that video to round out my opinion 😜

[@Calx91]

There’s no comparison of the 2 cities. SF is a straight dump and San Diego is paradise

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

And there you have it!

[@doramather4729]

San francisco has a lot of homeless people taking a shit on the side walks so walking on the side walks is hazards to your health.☹ San Diego downtown is cleaner and better for your health.🤗

[@DanPBestLifeSD]

There's literally an app for that!

[@californiamade5608]

Then why does San Diego have a problem of homeless cleaning up homeless shit on their sidewalks. And quick to do so to prevent the spread of tuberculosis.

[@donnydomingo9962]

I've only visited San Diego as opposed to living in downtown San Francisco for 16 years so I'm not sure how accurate this comparison is,....but when I was in downtown SD 1 homeless person came up and asked me for money and was pretty polite about it. In downtown SF it's more like 6 aggressive homeless (not all are homeless btw) people verbally accosting you EVERY block. If this wasn't the case, I'm might still be living there.

[@cmad2345]

@@californiamade5608 lmao dude you’re delusional. There’s no where near as much homeless in San Diego as San Francisco. You can cry all you want but you’re factually incorrect. Use google

[@Ginger30161]

San Francisco gives out free needles. Nuff said.