San Diego, California, praised as being the one city in the United States with a perfect climate, is both a vibrant modern city as well as a year-round resort. With its 70 miles of pristine beaches and world-famous San Diego Zoo, Wild Animal Park, Seaworld and LEGOLAND, San Diego is California’s second largest city and the seventh largest city in the US.
It is a city with population of nearly 1.3 million residents and more than 2.8 million residents countywide. Within its borders of 4,200 sq. miles, San Diego County encompasses 18 incorporated cities and numerous other exclusive neighborhoods and communities,as well as downtown’s historic Gaslamp Quarter, Little Italy, Coronado, La Jolla, Del Mar, Carlsbad, Escondido, Pacific Beach, La Mesa, Hillcrest, Barrio Logan, Chula Vista and more .
San Diego is located on the site of the first European settlement in California. In 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sailed into San Diego Bay and demanded the land for Spain. Two hundred years later, Gaspar de Portola and a group of Spanish settlers founded a military outpost on what is now Presidio Hill in 1769. At the same time, Franciscan friar Junipero Serra founded Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala, the first of the chain of 21 California Spanish Missions.
San Diego has an exceptional natural harbor, which has made it a leading shipping and receiving point for Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico’s Baja California. It is also headquarters for the 11th U.S. Naval District with major naval and marine training bases alsoresiding here. San Diego has large aerospace, electronic and shipbuilding industries, and is an important center for biomedical research and oceanography. It is also a distributing and processing point for the highly productive Imperial Valley agricultural area to the east. Median incomes vary throughout the region from $45,041 in San Diego to $94,052 in Del Mar, $60,107 in Carlsbad and $48,020 in Chula Vista. The average medium price for San Diego is $485,000.