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San Diego has some of the best and most coveted weather in the entire country. The temperatures rarely reach the 90s and never get frosty. The city also only sees an average of 10 or so inches of rain every year, which does nothing to help the drought, but sure does help keep that tan even year-round. Being able to wear flip flops in December really never gets old, either.
\nEven the overcast \u201cMay Grays\u201d and \u201cJune Gloom\u201d usually burn off by mid-afternoon. The moral of the story here is that even San Diego\u2019s gloomiest days are a thousand times better than virtually everywhere else\u2019s best days. Deal with it.<\/p>\n
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Taco Tuesday is much more than a cute San Diego activity. It\u2019s downright mandatory, bordering on an official religion with Tuesday being the Sabbath. San Diegans\u2019 love for fish tacos is very real and taken extremely seriously, which is why everybody here knows the best places to go and at which times. You\u2019ll even see people sporting Taco Tuesday t-shirts, all in the name of the mini-weekly holiday. Tacos are everywhere and they\u2019re delicious, especially when fish is involved.
\nThe biggest rule of thumb is that the quirkiest or dingiest (or both) are the most likely to have the best tacos. Taco Surf is a quaint taco shop that also doubles as a surf museum. Taco trucks or street tacos are all the rage and you don\u2019t have to order fish. But whatever your preference, just don\u2019t miss Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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San Diego-style hot sauce is truly an art form (and Tacos Perla is a museum of that art). It comes in different styles, different flavors, different textures and even different colors. What other places call salsa is what San Diego considers hot sauce. Alternately, what other places call hot sauce, San Diego calls hot water. With the exception of a bloody mary, what do you even do with that stuff?<\/p>\n
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You don\u2019t have to be a native San Diegan (and really, who is?) to understand this one. If you\u2019ve lived here for almost any length of time, you know that the Anchorman quotes will probably never die. Ever.
\nDon\u2019t take that the wrong way. Will Ferrell is great and Anchorman was funny. In 2004. It stopped being so funny somewhere around the seven billionth time some outsider reminded anyone here to \u201cstay classy.\u201d San Diegans know that they\u2019ll never be able to stop outsiders from quoting this movie to ad nauseum. But if you\u2019re new here, do yourself a favor and just say no to the gratuitous Anchorman quotes. Unless, of course, you\u2019re looking to give yourself away.<\/p>\n
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Everybody everywhere loves craft beer. I mean, it\u2019s craft beer\u2026 you\u2019d have to be a world-champ dumb-dumb not to. But nobody loves craft beer the way that San Diegans love craft beer. No, it\u2019s not an exact science, but if this were Vegas, I\u2019d put 98 percent of my cash on it being true.
\nSan Diego is the Craft Beer Capital of the country, with more microbreweries than anywhere else. If you can\u2019t claim places like Stone, Karl Stauss, and Coronado, then you can\u2019t really claim to love craft beer. It\u2019s not your fault, of course; you simply just don\u2019t know craft beer. In fact, the only reason I\u2019d be 98 percent of my cash instead of 100 is because crazier things have happened. I mean, the Terminator became governor, for crying out loud. Twice. And then there was that time Michael Jordan became a baseball player. We all make mistakes. Just not when it comes to beer in San Diego.<\/p>\n
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So, you dressed up like Thor or Wonder Woman and went to your local comic book convention this year, eh? That\u2019s cute. Even if it was one of the smaller, local \u201cComic-Cons,\u201d it wasn\u2019t Comic-Con.
\nIn case you live under a rock, the San Diego Comic-Con is the real McCoy of Comic-Cons. The ones that you see springing up in other cities are better than nothing, I guess, but they\u2019re kind of like a Louis Vuitton knockoff bag: it looks okay from afar until you get up close and realize that the LV looks more like the Yankees\u2019 logo. Further proof that it\u2019s always better to invest in authenticity. At the real Comic-Con, you\u2019ll get to spend your weekend with over 130,000 of likeminded fangirls and fanboys who automatically know you\u2019re dressed as the 11th Doctor, not the 10th (duh). So, invest wisely.<\/p>\n
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Show me a person who doesn\u2019t melt into a pile of goo at the sight of a panda and I\u2019ll show you Grinchy McGrincherson. Show me a person who doesn\u2019t melt into a pile of goo at the sight of pandas playing together up close, in person and I\u2019ll show you a damn liar.
\nThe San Diego Zoo more than lives up to its reputation as one of the best zoos in the country. And the panda exhibit there has a lot to do with that. San Diegans are in love with their resident furry friends, but it\u2019s not like people can visit the zoo on a weekly basis with jobs and bills and whatever. So, the zoo developed the Panda Web Cam in order for people to tune into the everyday hijinx of Gao Gao, Bai Yun, and company.<\/p>\n
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There is no doubt that San Diego is land of the beach bum. It\u2019s a place where surfing is more common that baseball and flip-flops are considered perfectly acceptable footwear almost everywhere you go, from a fancy date to a Bar Mitzvah. It\u2019s a laid back city with no use for watches, drama, or suits and heels. But along with following Frankie\u2019s advice to relax, they\u2019re also a pretty unique bunch.
\nThere\u2019s the guy who was so good at wearing a chicken suit in public that he bawked his way into becoming an advertising mascot for the Padres, hanging out with Ronald Raegan, landing a movie role. And no list of San Diego would be complete without a nod to Slo Mo, a former-neurologist who picked up and threw in the towel on his pre-planned life to pursue his passion of rollerblading the boardwalk of San Diego. Mission accomplished, he\u2019s a local legend.<\/p>\n
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So, we\u2019ve established that San Diego has the best beach bums. But I neglected to mention the other beach bums that flock to the shores to soak up as much sun as they can: the seals.
\nLa Jolla\u2019s reputation of old money and the upper crust barely does it justice. It\u2019s a corner of the world reserved for the wealthy and the beautiful\u2026and the seals. Head to the oceanfront cove to see the beauties bathing in the sun in packs. But don\u2019t let their floppy appearances deceive you. San Diegans know all about their rough nature, but tourists are always a little surprised to see them body slamming each other like they\u2019re in a WWE ring rather than one of the hoitiest beaches around.<\/p>\n
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At first, you just like to think that everyone really enjoys the pleasure of your company and that you\u2019re this awesome friend everybody wants to be around. But after your tenth house guest in the same season, the charade slowly starts to unravel and you see it for what it really is. Your friends don\u2019t really love you, they just love your beaches. And your weather. And your fish tacos. And surfing. And all those gorgeous people. And Legoland. And Comic-Con\u2026. Basically, you realize that your friends are using you to make out with San Diego.
\nIt\u2019s not really that harsh of a reality, though. Because deep down you know that if you didn\u2019t already live here, you\u2019d be doing the same thing. Which is exactly why you live here.
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1. Weather That Always Feels Like May And June Except In May And June Source: Flickr user Sunburned Surveyor San Diego has some of the best and most coveted weather in the entire country. The temperatures rarely reach the 90s and never get frosty. The city also only sees an average of 10 or so inches of rain every year, which does nothing to help the drought, but sure does help keep that tan even year-round. Being able to wear flip flops in December really never gets old, either. Even the overcast \u201cMay Grays\u201d and \u201cJune Gloom\u201d usually burn off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions","post--single"],"yoast_head":"\n