San Diego CountyCoast, Base and Backcountry

Coast, lagoons and the design shops of the golf business

The county's second largest city, still building east of the 805

A Navy peninsula across the bay from downtown

Two square miles of bluff, a racetrack and the fairgrounds

The inland valley where FHA still fits the price

Five old beach towns that voted to become one city

Inland North County, avocado groves and a working downtown

The southernmost beach town on the West Coast

A walkable village under Mount Helix on the trolley line

Four square miles, a giant lemon and an Orange Line stop

Victorian blocks and the Mile of Cars beside the shipyards

Pier, harbor and Camp Pendleton at the northern line

Horse trails, a named school district and no freeway through it

The county seat, fifty neighborhoods and fifty price levels

Two colleges below a ridge community with its own assessments

East County lots at the end of the trolley Green Line

A design district, a Coaster platform and bluff-top houses

Seven miles inland, with more breweries than any city its size