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From: thoma@reed.UUCP (Ann Muir Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: San Diego
Message-ID: <1772@reed.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 19:21:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: reed.1772
Posted: Sun Aug  4 19:21:27 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Aug-85 11:31:14 EDT
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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Before all the women in net.singles start thinking about
packing up and moving to San Diego to take advantage of
the high male:female ratio there, I, as a San Diego native
now happily exiled to the Pacific Northwest, would like to
tell you--

	1) San Diego is NOT a good place for the less-than-
average looking woman! I could never get a job there (as a
teenager) because I had (still have) acne, was a little
overweight, short, and wore glasses.  I also became afraid
to go out alone at any time of the day or night because
people would throw things at me from their cars and be
generally obnoxious to me, the men that is-- their female
companions would just giggle and say "look at that dog..."
Speaking of dogs, one time I was walking on the beach, and
these guys shoved a big dog at me and told me something along
the lines of it being a suitable mate for me... I told them
to fuck off, and ran for my life... There ARE exceptions to
this; by "fleeing" to a high school where almost everybody
was very bright, but not good-looking, I met some very neat
people.

	2) San Diego is very expensive; rents for two-bedroom
apartments START at about $400/month, and that is not for ones
in good neighborhoods either....

If you still want to go there, good luck....But I'll confine
my visits to once a year, thank you very much... I don't _need_
the kind of guy that causes the surplus!

Ann
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