I moved to San Diego from Tempe, Arizona, after cooking my brains for 10+ years. My hubby is a SD native, and I am from Stanford, originally, so it wasn’t such a culture shock.
There are still a lot of wonderful things about the area. Exploring unknown trails at Mission Trails Park, watching a lunar eclipse from one’s backyard, the sunsetting over the ocean, the fireworks over SeaWorld (watching from Presido Park), excavating at Mission San Diego, butterflies cruising through the orange blossoms…It all depends on your mind focus at the moment.