Right now, the only big four sports team (football, baseball, basketball, ice hockey) remaining in San Diego is baseball’s San Diego Padres, who in their 50 seasons as a team have been to the World Series twice, but have never won it.
San Francisco looks more like New York, but Los Angeles is, like New York , one of the crossroads of the world. To grow up longing to be successful and one day live in San Diego is a little like hoping to grow up longing to be successful and one day live in Philadelphia. There are advantages, but it’s not THE place.