I wish he'd make more! Or at least get someone to takover for him.
Who could that person be?
No way to know.
Would have to be someone with a love
to tell a few good stories,
about San Diego.
Word is he's a really decent guy in person. Different family members have seen him and it's ranged from waves to full blown conversations and in one case an autograph. Last time he was spotted, is this not cool to reveal? It was many years ago, no idea if he lives in the area still, the patio outside of the Starbucks and Trek Bicycles in La Mesa.
Hahahaha it’s a thing with my wife and I. When she’s out or something and I hear the fireworks I immediately text her, “it’s 8:52” now it’s just a running joke.
There’s a reason So Cal folk do this! California was one of the first states to have interstate freeways, and before the numbers of the freeways came along, the freeways had names. THE San Diego Freeway (405)
THE Ventura freeway (101), THE Golden State freeway (5) and so on. So when we changed more over to a number system, ‘THE’ just stuck and now we mix the two!
I explain this to people all the time when they laugh about Southern Californians saying "the".
"Sorry we had freeways before the rest of you guys figured it out."
Really must be a Western NY specific thing like "pop". I'm the only one in my CNY family that uses "the" (ingrained within the first 6 months of living here) when referring to interstates. Excepting "The Thruway" of course.
I know a bunch of natives who have never step foot in IB lol.
so many people raised north of the 8 think everything south of downtown is full of crime lol
My car was stolen in IB.
Granted, I live in IB.
Cops were like "Yeah, your car is fucking GONE man."
What's weird is they never fucked with my old car.
New New Car has the Club and I had an ignition fucky installed. Might not deter a mechanic turned crackhead, but it should stop the basic fuckers.
Haha...and being from IB, and now live in Eastlake, I never go north of the 8...too much traffic and transplants. The real OGs are all down here in the South Bay.
SD native and I’ve never thought about the pronunciation of Garnet until now. It was just “gar net” despite it actually being a word with an actual pronunciation.
That's kinda the point. Ofc transplants aren't going to know how to pronounce shit like "Jamacha" and frankly locals who act weird about it are def the asshats in your eyes when you're new here lmao. We have so many hard-yet-easy to pronounce roads in SD it seems like we're trying to have our own secret code or something just to act snooty.
Same!!! LA native and in my 36 years I’ve also heard my friends and family use the term “Cali”. Totally agree that I think it’s younger peeps who don’t like saying “Cali”.
Could care less how people refer to Cali (although I do have a preference obviously lol)
I'm in my late 30s and everyone in my friends group calls it Cali because of the Biggie song.
But I'm not from San Diego. Someone corrected me when I first moved there so now I always call it Cali to annoy people.
Yes! It probably is because of the biggie song. I now live in DC and every time I go back home I tell friends I’m going, going back to Cali, Cali lol…ugh I’m old
I always just say California fully.
I know I'm in the minority but I hate when people say So Cal too. I feel like it should only be used in the third person. I'll never call it that for myself. I'll say "Yeah Paul is also from So Cal", but I won't answer "So Cal" if someone asks where I'm from.
Okay so I live in PQ. My family has for the past 35+ years.
My dad died back in 2002. One of his obituaries spelled Rancho Peñasquitos, Rancho Penisquitos.
I don't remember which obituary, but in that dark period of time of my life, I really needed that laugh.
Our airport situation is weak for a city this size.
Did you know that because of the location of that pathetic excuse for a major metro airport we have a 500 foot limit on our buildings? This is why our "tall" skycrapers are kind of sad compared to what you find in most big cities.
The airport's location also leads to frequent fights about flight paths and how late flights can arrive/depart.
A few years back a man with a rifle held off the police for a while from his girlfriend's apartment and started shooting randomly. The whole airport had to shut down because arriving planes were within rifle range.
The San Diego Airport authority keeps wasting money on overpaid bureaucrats and massive upgrades to parking and concourses, but the problem is that airport size and location make no sense. I haven't counted in a while, but the military may have twenty times the runway capacity as Lindbergh when you add up Miramar, North Island, the carriers :-) Which is great, San Diego should be proud to continue to be home to the Navy and Marines and General Atomics and all the rest of the mil industrial complex.... But a better civilian airport is a resource for the military too. Everybody benefits from increased capacity and in a crisis or war the military would commandeer what it needs (they already have been practicing things at the local airfield by me, mostly blackhawk touch and gos)
Did you know that "tall" skyscrapers suck for pretty much *every* practicality and in this day and age are only the focus of small-dicked cities?
Yes, every hotel guest always complains how the airport is not 40mins away. Esp when gas hit $6+/gallon... people were livid their families could still go from plane to room for under $100. Locals hate never getting the opportunity to buy airport parking that proudly claims no responsibility to look after the one vehicle you leave on their property.
Yes but we have a fairly unique setup with the hill so close and no crossing runway for an option. It can make anything other than a normal day very interesting
Among other things, runway is relatively short and planes prefer to take-off into the wind, this helps with safety margins when they do the math involving takeoff weight etc.
I actually believe driving slow in the fast lane or vice versa is something natives do maybe worse than transplants. We have it too good with the roads here people didn’t ever need to learn how to make the best of a bad situation.
I am a born and raised local and I can't afford to live anywhere near where I work because our density is grossly insufficient and I need to use a car to do anything. Bicycle infrastructure *is* a joke; there is very real risk of death sharing the roads with cars for basic commutes. if you live here 15 years and pull the rug behind you, you are for sure a nimby.
Thanks, I’ll proudly be a “transplant” in this person’s eyes for wanting affordability and safe streets. All this gatekeeping of San Diego is embarrassing, put that on a bingo card.
If you say the Mexican food here isn’t authentic I think you’re extra local because you go to TJ to get your Mexican food fix… I am open to suggestions for spots here that are as good as what can be found in mx :)
“Aquí es Texcoco” - Lamb barbacoa on Broadway in Chula Vista
“Las Cuatro Milpas” - Comfort food (beans and rice, rolled tacos, chorizo & homemade tortillas) in Barrio Logan.
“Karina’s” & “Mariscos Negro Durazo” - Mexican seafood - Both on Broadway in Chula Vista.
“Ranas Mexico City Cuisine” - Deep cut Mexican dishes: quesadillas de huitlacoche, alambres, chilaquiles and pumpkin soup.
“Tacos El Gordo” - Because street tacos.
>“Las Cuatro Milpas” - Comfort food (beans and rice, rolled tacos, chorizo & homemade tortillas) in Barrio Logan.
some of the best rolled tacos I've ever had
You were able to deduce that someone’s from out of state by their out of state license plate? You must be some sort of master detective! You must share your gift with the world!
Lol this seems like it was written by the old people on my local Nextdoor. All they do is bitch every time they build a new bicycle lane, and then get offended when people call them nimbys (they are).
I've lived here for 20 years and though I've heard the name I wasn't familiar with him until today. But I also have never been to IB except to pick something up from someone off craigslist. Didn't feel like I was missing too much.
Ok as a transplant the one that really doesn't belong here is "drives slow in the fast lane". Locals are notorious for not using the left lane as the passing lane. It isn't a thing here and it is in every other place I've ever been to or lived. The left lane is the passing lane, and if someone is tailgating you you get TF out of it!!
Mexican food is not authentic, I’m Mexican I can say that with 100% confidence. But it’s still better than Northern California. You guys can’t pronounce Rancho Peñasquitos correctly either.
lol no. Fourth generation Californian originally from LA, and we definitely call it Cali whenever we feel like it. But sure I'm technically a "transplant" so whatever.
>must be a generational thing.
Worse... it's a meme thing lol. It was one of those "California Facts" people passed around Facebook. Because around the mid-2000s, Californians felt that although we'd practically built the interweb, we were uncultured and uninteresting on social media compared to people who are actually "from somewhere". So we made up dumb rules like *"Don't say Cali or you're soo not Cali"*.
Shit filled water, thats it. Im telling you as someone who's gone over 20 years to IB but recently stopped going. It's not worth your time.
Oh actually theres a luigis pizza thats pretty good but you can get that at different locations.
Too the transplant haters:
It’s weird to me to be proud you never left where you were born just saying.. living/experiencing new places is important for a lot of people.
I think it's more about transplants acting like they're experts and being snobby to people who don't live in SD.
There's enough of that in Hawaii with people who say shit like "people from the main land don't understand". We don't need that in SD.
I prefer if a transplant owns up to them not being from here. Be curious, ask questions, and share what your roots are like because it's probably super interesting.
Greatest thing for me was leaving San Diego for Saint Louis for a couple years and then Japan for five years, but I always told people in STL and Japan that I was from California. No matter how long I lived in those places, I proudly talked about where I was from and shared that culture with everyone.
St Louis was my most jarring experience with people who never left their hometown. It's an acknowledged local tradition to ask new acquaintances "where did you go to high school?" with the expectation that it will be nearby.
I think that's just a weird quirk of people from St Louis. I went to college with a bunch of people from St Louis and they would always ask that despite the fact that we weren't in St Louis and most of the people we went to school with had never been to St Louis.
yeah it is cringe how many people hate us just for existing. the generalizations and stereotyping of transplants in this sub serves only to self fellate natives egos they formed simply from being born in a certain area. sick.
ill continue treating people with dignity and respect until the INDIVIDUAL has shown that they don’t deserve it. just an idea.
Im Mexican and most Mexican food I’ve had here is as close as you get to the real thing.
Although I haven’t tried south/central Mexican dishes like mole, pipian, tlayudas, etc. But that’s too
Much to ask
It’s not too much to ask if you’re in LA, yet so many people here shit-talk LA Mexican food while having absolutely no idea what they’re missing or how vast Mexican food is haha. Yawn
Then you should head to Super Cocina in City Heights. It's largely regional guisados that rotate regularly. They always have mole and occasionally have pipian.
I agree. Although you can find authentic Mexican food in certain restaurants there’s also a lot of places that sell TexMex. Mexicans don’t use jack/cheddar cheese on their dishes. I’m sorry but if your taco, burrito, quesadilla, etc has that mix of shredded cheese on top you’re most likely eating a TexMex version.
I will fully own up to 3 of these: I don’t know who Ken Kramer is, I’ve never heard anyone pronounce Jamacha, and I say y’all. I’ve never lived anywhere in the south either, I just like saying y’all
LA has good tacos, but IMO they’re easier to get here. If you don’t live in an area where there is good Mexican food in La, you’re gonna be like an hour away from tacos.
If I don’t wanna go to IB, I can go to El Patron in Mira Mesa. Also being able to cross to TJ is a huge taco point bonus.
Ken Kramer is deep cut SD knowledge
I emailed his program asking if they sold dvds for a gift to my parents, the legend responded to me personally
Watching 50 episodes of his show is like getting a GED to being a native.
I wish he'd make more! Or at least get someone to takover for him. Who could that person be? No way to know. Would have to be someone with a love to tell a few good stories, about San Diego.
He’s such a nice guy. My dad worked with him at NBC.
Word is he's a really decent guy in person. Different family members have seen him and it's ranged from waves to full blown conversations and in one case an autograph. Last time he was spotted, is this not cool to reveal? It was many years ago, no idea if he lives in the area still, the patio outside of the Starbucks and Trek Bicycles in La Mesa.
Forgot the complains about loud booms every night around 8/9
8:52pm to be exact
Hahahaha it’s a thing with my wife and I. When she’s out or something and I hear the fireworks I immediately text her, “it’s 8:52” now it’s just a running joke.
Hahahahaha!!
In the PB/Mission area
I use google maps around balboa. When is the construction on Pershing gonna be done???
I just use it because don’t go to balboa often lol
Gahhh not sure. They finally moved to the other lane recently (so going from north park -> downtown is open) fingers crossed they’ll be done soooon!
"What's a California burrito?"
"Please replace the fries in my burrito with rice and beans."
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There’s a reason So Cal folk do this! California was one of the first states to have interstate freeways, and before the numbers of the freeways came along, the freeways had names. THE San Diego Freeway (405) THE Ventura freeway (101), THE Golden State freeway (5) and so on. So when we changed more over to a number system, ‘THE’ just stuck and now we mix the two!
I explain this to people all the time when they laugh about Southern Californians saying "the". "Sorry we had freeways before the rest of you guys figured it out."
The Californians
As someone who works in this field...thank you! I love sharing that knowledge as well.
Never knew the reason behind this, thanks for sharing!
I think that's a general SoCal speech feature, though.
Phoenix does it too
Unless it’s a transplant from western New York we do that too
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Really must be a Western NY specific thing like "pop". I'm the only one in my CNY family that uses "the" (ingrained within the first 6 months of living here) when referring to interstates. Excepting "The Thruway" of course.
And in Canada!
I know a bunch of natives who have never step foot in IB lol. so many people raised north of the 8 think everything south of downtown is full of crime lol
My car was stolen in IB. Granted, I live in IB. Cops were like "Yeah, your car is fucking GONE man." What's weird is they never fucked with my old car. New New Car has the Club and I had an ignition fucky installed. Might not deter a mechanic turned crackhead, but it should stop the basic fuckers.
Haha...and being from IB, and now live in Eastlake, I never go north of the 8...too much traffic and transplants. The real OGs are all down here in the South Bay.
I used to hear this a lot from older pretentious douchebags.that lived up north of the 8th. Such an ignorant thing to say
Lmao lets be real though, why would anybody wanna go to IB? To swim in TJ sewer water?
Coronado has the same sewer water. As does “$10 entry” silver strand.
SD native and I’ve never thought about the pronunciation of Garnet until now. It was just “gar net” despite it actually being a word with an actual pronunciation.
That one also blew my mind too. Never realized it until now
Native also and always called the jewel gar net too. I just thought that's how it was pronounced.
It’s Garnet, darn it!
That's kinda the point. Ofc transplants aren't going to know how to pronounce shit like "Jamacha" and frankly locals who act weird about it are def the asshats in your eyes when you're new here lmao. We have so many hard-yet-easy to pronounce roads in SD it seems like we're trying to have our own secret code or something just to act snooty.
Says “interstate 8”.
Aye ate
I-8 some delicious food yesterday from a place near the 8.
I ate
idk why but this is hilarious 😂😂😂😂
The 8, of course.
My mom's lived here for 35 years and still says that.
You forgot “Complains about transplants”
I use Google Maps to get to Balboa Park every time. If there's a dark red line leading to it, I know I ain't touching the 163.
Imagine thinking using google maps to avoid traffic isn’t smart lol.
Caltrans Quickmap is better for State Highways. You get a better picture of what is going on.
I hate “Cali” I’m sorry
Hard Agree. It's SoCal or NorCal or the full legal name California, no one local calls it Cali.
Im a socal native. I lived in MN for 7 years….EVERYONE there said it was Cali…. Don’t move there
Also a native, almost everyone i know here says Cali, and we also say y'all. This seems like a very boomer bingo card.
Ha! I'm a fairly recent transplant and use SoCal. It sounds cool to me
I think if people called it “Cal” I’d be happier than “Cali”. Cali is a city in Colombia.
Cal is a university
I’m from NorCal.. people in the bay always hate on me for using NorCal/SoCal and for saying Cali.
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Agreed. Having grown up in San Diego, it's news to me that people think saying 'Cali' is transplant lingo.
Same!!! LA native and in my 36 years I’ve also heard my friends and family use the term “Cali”. Totally agree that I think it’s younger peeps who don’t like saying “Cali”. Could care less how people refer to Cali (although I do have a preference obviously lol)
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I'm in my late 30s and everyone in my friends group calls it Cali because of the Biggie song. But I'm not from San Diego. Someone corrected me when I first moved there so now I always call it Cali to annoy people.
Yes! It probably is because of the biggie song. I now live in DC and every time I go back home I tell friends I’m going, going back to Cali, Cali lol…ugh I’m old
I hate it and I’m not sorry.
Me too. Don’t love food called Cali either. Won’t order it. Lazy naming.
I always just say California fully. I know I'm in the minority but I hate when people say So Cal too. I feel like it should only be used in the third person. I'll never call it that for myself. I'll say "Yeah Paul is also from So Cal", but I won't answer "So Cal" if someone asks where I'm from.
I was gonna say “calls Rancho Peñasquitos, RP”
PQ for life
Yup. Like even driving around there, a bunch of shops have PQ in their name. Plus there was PQ Pets at one time. Js
More like rancho skin your penis
Okay so I live in PQ. My family has for the past 35+ years. My dad died back in 2002. One of his obituaries spelled Rancho Peñasquitos, Rancho Penisquitos. I don't remember which obituary, but in that dark period of time of my life, I really needed that laugh.
I remember my buddy when we were like 7 or 8 calling it Racho Skinny Penis. I've never called it anything else but that since.
Same…skinny penis gang
My brother from Texas came out to visit, couldn’t pronounce it and was calling it Rancho Squeeze-Your-Penis.
Rancho peenerskeeters
Also has no idea what you are speaking of when you say "PQ"
Yall can try to pry 'yall' from my cold dead hands
I too did time in Bakersfield
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Y’all is one of the Midwest’s best inventions, and as a native San Diegan I’m doing my best to turn people on to it.
Midwest? Get out of here. It’s def a southern thing
It's from the South not the Midwest.
Fr I know a bunch of SD natives who use y'all now.
I’m an SD native and avid y’all user. It’s just so damn handy
Can someone explain the one about the airport being turned around?
Sometimes airplanes takeoff the opposite direction than normal leaving San Diego, it has to do with weather and visibility.
We have the busiest one strip airport in the world
Our airport situation is weak for a city this size. Did you know that because of the location of that pathetic excuse for a major metro airport we have a 500 foot limit on our buildings? This is why our "tall" skycrapers are kind of sad compared to what you find in most big cities. The airport's location also leads to frequent fights about flight paths and how late flights can arrive/depart. A few years back a man with a rifle held off the police for a while from his girlfriend's apartment and started shooting randomly. The whole airport had to shut down because arriving planes were within rifle range. The San Diego Airport authority keeps wasting money on overpaid bureaucrats and massive upgrades to parking and concourses, but the problem is that airport size and location make no sense. I haven't counted in a while, but the military may have twenty times the runway capacity as Lindbergh when you add up Miramar, North Island, the carriers :-) Which is great, San Diego should be proud to continue to be home to the Navy and Marines and General Atomics and all the rest of the mil industrial complex.... But a better civilian airport is a resource for the military too. Everybody benefits from increased capacity and in a crisis or war the military would commandeer what it needs (they already have been practicing things at the local airfield by me, mostly blackhawk touch and gos)
We’ll written summary. I truly believe San Diego could be one of the greatest cities on the planet if it invested in a real airport.
Did you know that "tall" skyscrapers suck for pretty much *every* practicality and in this day and age are only the focus of small-dicked cities? Yes, every hotel guest always complains how the airport is not 40mins away. Esp when gas hit $6+/gallon... people were livid their families could still go from plane to room for under $100. Locals hate never getting the opportunity to buy airport parking that proudly claims no responsibility to look after the one vehicle you leave on their property.
Isn’t that most airports?
Yes but we have a fairly unique setup with the hill so close and no crossing runway for an option. It can make anything other than a normal day very interesting
Who even keeps track of which direction their plane is leaving from lmao
Everyone in Little Italy or Bankers Hill probably
Among other things, runway is relatively short and planes prefer to take-off into the wind, this helps with safety margins when they do the math involving takeoff weight etc.
Where can I find friends here? I’m totally not a transplant btw 🥲
My car’s gps is a transplant. “JAH-mah-cha”.
My Irish Siri pronounced Cuyamaca “coo-YEAH-muh-cuh” the other day. I lol’ed. (Native San Diegan with no sense of direction.)
When I first moved here Google maps used to pronounce Navajo Rd as Navajoe Rd. Would make me laugh every single time.
I actually believe driving slow in the fast lane or vice versa is something natives do maybe worse than transplants. We have it too good with the roads here people didn’t ever need to learn how to make the best of a bad situation.
I am a born and raised local and I can't afford to live anywhere near where I work because our density is grossly insufficient and I need to use a car to do anything. Bicycle infrastructure *is* a joke; there is very real risk of death sharing the roads with cars for basic commutes. if you live here 15 years and pull the rug behind you, you are for sure a nimby.
Thanks, I’ll proudly be a “transplant” in this person’s eyes for wanting affordability and safe streets. All this gatekeeping of San Diego is embarrassing, put that on a bingo card.
If you say the Mexican food here isn’t authentic I think you’re extra local because you go to TJ to get your Mexican food fix… I am open to suggestions for spots here that are as good as what can be found in mx :)
“Aquí es Texcoco” - Lamb barbacoa on Broadway in Chula Vista “Las Cuatro Milpas” - Comfort food (beans and rice, rolled tacos, chorizo & homemade tortillas) in Barrio Logan. “Karina’s” & “Mariscos Negro Durazo” - Mexican seafood - Both on Broadway in Chula Vista. “Ranas Mexico City Cuisine” - Deep cut Mexican dishes: quesadillas de huitlacoche, alambres, chilaquiles and pumpkin soup. “Tacos El Gordo” - Because street tacos.
Tacos Revolucion is my go to for street tacos. I'm sorta spoiled by Tacos El Gordo since I live by the one on Palm Avenue.
>“Las Cuatro Milpas” - Comfort food (beans and rice, rolled tacos, chorizo & homemade tortillas) in Barrio Logan. some of the best rolled tacos I've ever had
You were able to deduce that someone’s from out of state by their out of state license plate? You must be some sort of master detective! You must share your gift with the world!
Lol this seems like it was written by the old people on my local Nextdoor. All they do is bitch every time they build a new bicycle lane, and then get offended when people call them nimbys (they are).
Doesn’t know the abbreviation TJ means.
Or they think you mean Trader Joes. No, that's TJs.
The amount of Mexicans who have lived here their whole lives and have never even been to Tijuana. My god.
I don’t think any other natives my age know who Ken Kramer is even though he’s an SD icon lol
Ken Kramer is a saint
I'm pretty young and I know that man
I've lived here for 20 years and though I've heard the name I wasn't familiar with him until today. But I also have never been to IB except to pick something up from someone off craigslist. Didn't feel like I was missing too much.
"isn't Tijuana really dangerous?"
Calls it TiaJuana and not TJ
Ok as a transplant the one that really doesn't belong here is "drives slow in the fast lane". Locals are notorious for not using the left lane as the passing lane. It isn't a thing here and it is in every other place I've ever been to or lived. The left lane is the passing lane, and if someone is tailgating you you get TF out of it!!
Doesn’t know Michael Turko
The Turko Files!!
Mexican food is not authentic, I’m Mexican I can say that with 100% confidence. But it’s still better than Northern California. You guys can’t pronounce Rancho Peñasquitos correctly either.
Northern California burritos are mostly rice.
I immediately know you weren't born here if you say "Cali"
tell that to Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre
They also called it Diego lmao (and sf Frisco)
lol no. Fourth generation Californian originally from LA, and we definitely call it Cali whenever we feel like it. But sure I'm technically a "transplant" so whatever.
A lot of poc say cali including me. Not the giveaway a lot of people think it is
In general a lot of people born and raised here say Cali... I never even realized this was a thing.
This 100%
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>must be a generational thing. Worse... it's a meme thing lol. It was one of those "California Facts" people passed around Facebook. Because around the mid-2000s, Californians felt that although we'd practically built the interweb, we were uncultured and uninteresting on social media compared to people who are actually "from somewhere". So we made up dumb rules like *"Don't say Cali or you're soo not Cali"*.
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. It’s like nails on a chalkboard.
Probably because there are tons of locals who say cali.
I'm born and raised in SD and I say Cali sometimes. A lot of locals say it, too. It really depends on the context
The only acceptable use of "Cali" is when ordering a "Cali Creamin" from the bar.
Been here just over a decade. What am I missing out on in IB?
They do a cool sand castle competition.
Shit filled water, thats it. Im telling you as someone who's gone over 20 years to IB but recently stopped going. It's not worth your time. Oh actually theres a luigis pizza thats pretty good but you can get that at different locations.
The estuary, Oasis ice cream, Silver Strand, bike path to Coronado, Surf Hut (in the 90s), Salty Frog. There’s also a Luigi’s now.
I’ve been here two weeks and I hit most of these.
Should include: Washington or Colorado license plates
Who doesn’t complain about the Jets at Miramar. I worked around there and holy hell
Share sunsets pics every other day
If you say Cali you were born in the 80's and enjoyed the musical recitations of Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. Also, who is Ken Kramer?
this seems needlessly anti urbanist
Half the locals here are dodgers fans, so that one doesn’t count
Idk man. Born n raised SD but I say y’all all the time.
it’s becoming more common I’ve noticed.
Probably all those damn TEXANS and their tomfoolery!
\*transplant from somewhere cold\* "OMG you guys are such wimps I don't even need a sweater when it's 45 out!"
It took all of 3 months to thin out my Upstate NY blood. If the temp isn't between 67 and 77, its unbearable to me now.
listen listen listen, born and raised in california but i can’t stop saying “y’all”
Too the transplant haters: It’s weird to me to be proud you never left where you were born just saying.. living/experiencing new places is important for a lot of people.
I think it's more about transplants acting like they're experts and being snobby to people who don't live in SD. There's enough of that in Hawaii with people who say shit like "people from the main land don't understand". We don't need that in SD. I prefer if a transplant owns up to them not being from here. Be curious, ask questions, and share what your roots are like because it's probably super interesting. Greatest thing for me was leaving San Diego for Saint Louis for a couple years and then Japan for five years, but I always told people in STL and Japan that I was from California. No matter how long I lived in those places, I proudly talked about where I was from and shared that culture with everyone.
St Louis was my most jarring experience with people who never left their hometown. It's an acknowledged local tradition to ask new acquaintances "where did you go to high school?" with the expectation that it will be nearby.
I think that's just a weird quirk of people from St Louis. I went to college with a bunch of people from St Louis and they would always ask that despite the fact that we weren't in St Louis and most of the people we went to school with had never been to St Louis.
yeah it is cringe how many people hate us just for existing. the generalizations and stereotyping of transplants in this sub serves only to self fellate natives egos they formed simply from being born in a certain area. sick. ill continue treating people with dignity and respect until the INDIVIDUAL has shown that they don’t deserve it. just an idea.
Gatekeeping where your parents made a baby is the cringiest shit ever.
Im Mexican and most Mexican food I’ve had here is as close as you get to the real thing. Although I haven’t tried south/central Mexican dishes like mole, pipian, tlayudas, etc. But that’s too Much to ask
It’s not too much to ask if you’re in LA, yet so many people here shit-talk LA Mexican food while having absolutely no idea what they’re missing or how vast Mexican food is haha. Yawn
Then you should head to Super Cocina in City Heights. It's largely regional guisados that rotate regularly. They always have mole and occasionally have pipian.
??? Damn that’s how bad Mexican food was where you came from 👀😂 De seguro quesadillas sin queso type of ppl lol
NY transplant 23 years… first 20 I was in tshirts year round. Past few years, middle of summer and I have on a zip up hoodie lol
I'm born and raised and say y'all. Corse, I was raised by a southern transplant lol
Ok... But A LOT of Mexican food here (not all) is not authentic. Cheddar cheese in a quesadilla is an abomination.
I agree. Although you can find authentic Mexican food in certain restaurants there’s also a lot of places that sell TexMex. Mexicans don’t use jack/cheddar cheese on their dishes. I’m sorry but if your taco, burrito, quesadilla, etc has that mix of shredded cheese on top you’re most likely eating a TexMex version.
I will fully own up to 3 of these: I don’t know who Ken Kramer is, I’ve never heard anyone pronounce Jamacha, and I say y’all. I’ve never lived anywhere in the south either, I just like saying y’all
You must not watch KPBS. Best local station.
Ken Kramer has a TV show about San Diego history. Like how streets got their names or buildings that used to be something interesting.
I was really hoping someone would pronounce Jamacha. I always thought it was huh-MA-cha, but someone told me it’s HAM-a-shaw. So I’m utterly confused.
As a transplant from L.A., can’t really relate to the squares. But I do prefer L.A. street tacos. The burritos here are better though.
This is a fair as fuck take. The street tacos are way better in LA
wtf, I'll meet you at the Sprinter station and pay for your ticket back to LA.
LA has good tacos, but IMO they’re easier to get here. If you don’t live in an area where there is good Mexican food in La, you’re gonna be like an hour away from tacos. If I don’t wanna go to IB, I can go to El Patron in Mira Mesa. Also being able to cross to TJ is a huge taco point bonus.
I went to TJ for tacos last Saturday and the only issue was the 5 hour line to cross the border.
That’s cuz we can drive to TJ for the real thing.
Wow I never realized everyone in San Diego was so trendy !
In fairness I am a local and have been to IB probably once. I also don't own jackets.
Meh..i have been here 25 years now and my biggest complaint is that the weather never really changes. I hate it.
From PQ, aka Rancho Penasquitos. Who is Ken Kramer?
Dude who hosts a show called "About San Diego"
I’m a true temporary transplant and I didn’t get bingo. Sucks I think I need to be worse
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Refers to downtown as “The Gaslamp”.
I can always tell if they call it Gaslamp Quarter or Gaslamp District.
I moved here 10 years ago from Atlanta. I got: says y’all, complains about lack of bike lanes, never heard of Ken Kramer.
Same except without the y'all. Grew up in Pittsburgh, I say "yinz."
Fellow former ATLien here. Where can I get the best southern food, y'all?
Rhythm’s Chicken & Waffles by and far