MCAS Miramar Air Show returns to San Diego on September 27, as a salute to first responders.
Though San Diego has grown into much more than a military town over the years, the military strand of the region’s DNA continues to weave through much of what we do today. Home to the largest concentration of military forces in the world, it should come to no surprise that...
Continue ReadingWith top-notch schools, quality of life, and kid-friendly restaurants, San Marcos continues to be a great place to raise a family in San Diego.
San Marcos is steadily ranked as a great place to raise a family, thanks to its top-notch schools and high quality of life. Look around town and you’ll see that affirmed. Children 9 or younger make up about 15 percent of the city’s population. That’s higher than San Diego County’s rate,...
Continue ReadingOcean Beach offers funky beach charm and some stellar sunset views | Photo Credit: Neil Soni c/o Unsplash
If you want to ‘blame’ a neighborhood for giving San Diego a reputation as a laid-back beach community, you can point the finger at Ocean Beach – or OB as the locals call it. A stone’s throw away from downtown, Ocean Beach offers an eclectic blend of bohemian beach living. Surfers, bikers,...
Continue ReadingSee what it's like to live in San Diego North County's beautiful City of Carlsbad.
I was stoked when I landed a job in Carlsbad two years ago. Six years of cold winters in DC and two years of LA traffic had me ready to get back to the perfect weather and California burritos I remembered from my days at the University of San Diego....
Continue ReadingSee what it's like to live in San Diego East County's City of La Mesa.
Ask any local to recommend some of San Diego’s happening neighborhoods, and they’ll likely answer Hillcrest, North Park, Encinitas, or La Jolla. Little do many locals know, cosmopolitan cool has been sprouting wildly in the once-sleepy town of La Mesa, located in San Diego’s East County. Impress even long-time San...
Continue ReadingMore than 100 companies make the infamous 2019 Inc. 5000 List.
Inc. Magazine recently published its annual guide to the 5,000 fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S., otherwise famously known as the Inc. 5000 list. It came to no one’s surprise (at least not ours) that San Diego garnered a solid handful of companies among this year’s ranks…more than 100...
Continue ReadingSDLC Ambassador Mel Bartow shares her #WhySanDiego story.
In light of our #WhySanDiego contest (that ends TODAY August 15!), SDLC Ambassador Mel Bartow reflected on her own San Diego journey. Enjoy it below, but fair warning: you will likely experience all the feels. I stand at my desk on the 10th floor of our downtown San Diego office....
Continue ReadingHealth and DNA research platform LunaDNA hosts #TakeoverTuesday.
Located in La Jolla, a popular hub for biotech companies in San Diego, LunaDNA is the world’s first health and DNA research platform owned by its community of individual contributors. By empowering individuals to securely and privately share their health and DNA data, LunaDNA is helping improve the quality of...
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