San Diego was nice 35+ years ago. For everyone else who is not wealthy, who are not able to financially isolate themselves, that place went to hell long ago.
One of their biggest suburbs, El Cajon, is now called, “Little Baghdad”.
Yup. The Chaldean Christian immigrants have lots of businesses in El Cajon. They prefer to run liquor stores. There is also some nefarious mixing with the Mexican cartels to deal drugs. Other areas e.g. Clairemont, have mosques with a huge population of muslims. Balboa Ave from Genessess to I-15 is a heavily muslim area.