Saturday, September 24, 2005

No wonder I feel at home here

I was reading ESPN's The Sports Guy's predictions for this week's NFL games and came across this little gem about my hometown: "Have you ever been to San Diego? That's the most laid-back city in the country--San Diego makes Switzerland look like Compton."

[Perhaps a germ of truth in the assertion that San Diego is supremely laid-back, although having heard Swiss gangsta rap on the radio and been to some of what might constitute rough neighborhoods by Swiss standards, nothing about Switzerland can be compared to Compton, unless comparing it to an upper-middle class white kid listening to NWA's "Straight Outta Compton"...]