Calif. Anyone considering a move to this largely affluent county on the doorstep of Mexico might have to put up with the threat of wildfires. Oh, I almost forgot. There is a high incidence of skin cancer. Great weather combined with natural beauty are what people immediately find appealing.
Every summer day begins with a thin fog that rolls up into the hills from the cold Pacific Ocean.
The sun burns the fog away by 10 o'clock or so, and then the temperature climbs to a high of 74. Nobody ever checks the weather forecast because it is the same every day except in winter, when the high temperature dips down into the 60s and the region gets most of the 9 inches of rain that falls each year. The San Diego area has other redeeming qualities. We stayed in Encinitas, a coastal city a half-hour's drive up the freeway from San Diego. We frequented a food store, a pharmacy and a bakery in a strip shopping center at the intersection of two heavily traveled main streets.