FFFFriday! And San Diego is in The New York Times

The part of The New York Times that thinks it's so easy to just go out and get a second home in San Diego. (Oh Honey, I feel like a condo that over looks the harbor, can we get one of those today? Sure, whatever, take the check book.)

Escape. Many, many people have discovered our little city by the sea and are now calling it their "home away from home." In fact many of them are flocking to downtown and Coronado, where they buy 1.1 million dollar condos and walk around on weekends looking for the best place to get brunch. Why do they come here?

Weather, in fact, is almost everyone’s first reason for buying a second home in San Diego. Midwesterners and Easterners have bought homes to escape the brunt of winter, while Arizonans — dubbed Zonies here — and some desert-dwelling Californians have purchased homes to escape the triple-digit temperatures of summer and bask in the cool ocean breezes.

You see downtown San Diego has changed. According to the NY times:

“Not long ago, downtown San Diego was a Navy town, full of brothels,” he said. “Now it’s a modern city on the water.”

We were a brothel city but now we are a condominium city. A condominium city that, apparently, needed a few time shares as well.

Also downtown is a new Hard Rock Hotel, a condominium “lifestyle hotel” with 420 rooms.
The owners have access to their rooms up to 28 days a year. The rest of the time the room is rented, and owners get a portion of the proceeds.

But be careful what you wish for San Diego because with the brand new revitalized downtown AND the crazy time share hotels you're also going to get this girl.

“And it has Nobu,” she said, referring to a high-end Japanese restaurant that will be in the hotel. “Everyone’s looking forward to that.”

I know we'll never BE L.A. but I sure hope we're going to be able to keep out the SUPER LA-ins (except Britney, cause that's a train wreck I'd love to stare at while she gets lost in Horton Plaza. How come there are so many levels y'all?)

Yes that's Brit Brit leaving NOBU in LA. I am... shameless.