[Kimeoffessyr]

First off, sorry I've been MIA the past few weeks, I started a new job and have been working 12+ hour shifts that end at midnight or 1 AM with the advent of Christmas.
I spent three weeks in LA and now that I've come back to San Diego, I've some to a realization. I'm encouraging you guys to think about this as well, why you like or dislike where you live, and where you would move if you had to.
Just for one comparison of why I realized I like San Diego, while I was in Los Angeles, I got myself lost walking around downtown. I tried to ask for directions back to the subway station I'd come from, and I tried to take a bus back to Union Station, which my hotel was right next to. Nobody answered my requests for directions, and since it was 9 PM, no stores (Not even malls) were open as they all close at 7 PM downtown. I waited at a bus stop for an hour, even waving at buses as they passed. A few began to pull up, but never opened the door, as soon as they passed me at the curb they gunned the gas again. After an hour or so I got one to stop for me, but the driver rudely informed me that he wasn't going where I wanted to go so I should get off. Having taken the transit in San Diego, I know that drivers stop even if you're sitting, unless you wave them on, and if you don't know where to go they will take 30 seconds to tell you what bus to catch and where to get off.
Beyond that was just one incident tonight that helped me a lot. It was 2 AM, I was driving home from work down commercial street. For Non-San Diegans, Commercial street is a wide street which is shared with the San Diego Trolley Light Rail system, and cars. Pardon the descriptiveness, but it really contributed to how this "incident" made me feel later. As I said, the street is very wide, and it is a very foggy night. I was the only car on the road and the fog was blocking the view of the houses on the other side of the street, when I saw 3 lights shaped triangularly coming from the other direction (All trains are required to have this headlight layout) in the US). A One-car Trolley train came toward me as I stopped for the red light. Everything felt cold and lonely, and I was stressed and tired from the 12-hour day, but I rolled down my truck's window and waved at the trolley operator as he passed by me at the red light. He stopped the trolley with his window lined up with mine (the train blocking the empty cross street) and he rolled his window down, shouting at me "Hey There! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!". I returned the greeting, and was warned to drive carefully. It felt good to be acknowledged like that, and my problems with LA's mass transit highlighted it for me, besides the irony that when I want a bus in LA I'm ignored, but the trains in San Diego still stop for me when I have a car.
I've always known it, but it just reminded me that the reason I like living in San Diego is that the Attitude is so much more like a small town than a metropolis of 3 million, it's a breath of fresh air.
Anyway, sorry to get carried away, wantedto get that one out. Why do you like, or dislike, your various cities? think hard, and Merry christmas/Happy Chanukha/Happy Kwanzaa/New year, etc. remember to drive safely!