Pros and Cons of Living in San Diego - part II

TEN CONS:

• It’s sooo far away from home. Traveling between the two is both long and expensive.
  
• The job market is tough, and I might have to accept being without a job for a little while, whereas here I have one. Also, it’s a different lifestyle there, where employees are for instances not granted five weeks vacation per year or nine months maternity leaves …
  
• It doesn’t feel like a secure place but a rather insecure one. Human rights are losing ground, foreign policy is not winning America any friends and war times might be imminent.
  
• The culture may be a little flat and homogenous down there, but well, that is for me to find out …
  
• It’s a big city with all that entails: traffic jams, difficult to get things done, high cost of living, …
  
• The time difference with home (8 hours in winter) makes contact with friends and family discommodious.
  
• They don’t get any winter there, no snow, no cozy, pitch dark days, no atmospheric Christmas season.
  
• I’ll miss the water, the fish, the lamb, … from home.
  
• I won’t see my nephews and experience their pranks.
  
• I’ll have to change my ways and rethink my situation as to whether/how long to keep my lovely, cozy appartment, give up my car for half its worth, etc …