That makes me sad. I lived in San Dog from 1994-1997. It was a beautiful city then.
I spent a beautiful year in SD, navy, 1979-80…even then, though, Otay Mesa was filled with illegals, certain parts were to be avoided at any cost; graffiti on the underpasses, ‘cholos’ & gang-bangers at the flea market, etc. etc. just a foretaste of what was to come,apparently. I think Pete Wilson was mayor then iirc
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...
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.
We visited friends there in the 70s. They had a couple of acres, a couple of horses, quiet neighborhood and the beaches were glorious!