• Living in UTC, San Diego: What University City Is Actually Like,Shirin Kheshti

    Living in UTC, San Diego: What University City Is Actually Like

    Drive Governor Drive on a weekday around four in the afternoon and you get the whole neighborhood in a single pass. Kids on bikes cutting through Standley Park, a line at the grocery store, someone hauling a paddleboard into the garage of a house built in the sixties that still looks it, and then, a

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  • Living in Bankers Hill, San Diego: What It Is Actually Like,Shirin Kheshti

    Living in Bankers Hill, San Diego: What It Is Actually Like

    Stand in the middle of the Spruce Street Suspension Bridge on a clear afternoon and you get the entire neighborhood in one view. The bridge is a 375-foot footbridge built in 1912, it sways a little when the wind moves up the canyon, and people have called it the Wiggly Bridge for about as long as it

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  • PCS to San Diego: Choosing a Neighborhood by Your Base,Shirin Kheshti

    PCS to San Diego: Choosing a Neighborhood by Your Base

    The call almost always comes in the same shape. Someone has orders, they have a report date, they have already spent two nights scrolling listings on a phone from a different time zone, and the first thing they say to me is some version of "we found a house we like, what do you think." My first ques

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