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Buying your first home in San Diego is exciting, terrifying, and sometimes more confusing than it needs to be. You have been Googling at midnight, doing rough mortgage math, and wondering if buying here is actually possible. Here are some of your most commonly asked questions about the home buying process answered. 1. How much […]

What Does Your Budget Actually Get You in San Diego? Let’s talk about price, because this is usually the first thing people ask when they’re thinking about moving to San Diego. The San Diego countywide median home price is hovering around $950,000, but that number only tells part of the story. A $950K budget might […]

I thought it would be very logical to have my fourth blog post be about the Asian food in San Diego. I mean, after you figure out where to live, you need to figure out where to eat, right?! I’ve narrowed down my personal favorites that I’ve gone back to many times. Most of these […]

How a pandemic and a city taught me to slow down Sometimes the best things start without a plan. Rewind to 2021 – a year into the COVID pandemic. I was living in San Francisco, doing my best to find joy in everyday life when the world felt like it was at a standstill. With […]

In September 2023, I bought an SUV, loaded my two fluffy cats, and hired a moving truck to haul everything I owned from San Francisco to San Diego. Nine hours straight, just me and the cats. I pulled into a new city knowing exactly ZERO people – and I wouldn’t have had it any other […]

20,000 hours. That’s roughly how long I spent working a 9-5 in the corporate world. Almost a decade across four tech startups, and in February 2026 I finally quit — without a clean plan, without a backup offer, and honestly without much regret. Here’s how I got there. The thing nobody tells you about a […]