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San Diego is paradise... and the Dali Lama lives in Pacific Beach, California

Before everyone heads to PB, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Dali Lama, he doesn't live at the Hare Krishna temple on Grand Avenue.

He isn't at the hostel by the boardwalk. His holiness lives in Dharmashala, India, a paradise that has changed from a small city into a large tourist mecca like San Diego.

He's the real deal. A spirituality expert grounded in reality. , his holiness is saddened by the dramatic growth in Dharmashala which has resulted in garbage disposal issues, traffic congestion, leaking water pipes and unchecked illegal constructions.

His question to civic leaders: 人民幸福吗 Rénmín xìngfú ma? Are the people happy?

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Punks run San Diego and California

Our politicians have gotten greedy. State laws have made it easy for developers to build anything anywhere without cities having to inform the local planning groups and have a chance to ask for more information.

Why else would politicians ruin a beautiful city with overdevelopment knowing that they're not improving the sewers, water supply, and don't have adequate firefighters?

Here's a report of who gives big money to the governor, our mayor and state politicians.

https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-research-public-records/individual-contributions/

https://powersearch.sos.ca.gov

San Diego is great...!

That's what TripAdvisor and everyone on social media says...you agree, until your apartment building is sold and converted into an Airbnb hotel; ADU rents are $3,100, so you rent a room for $1,300.

Your luck improves, you fall in love and buy a little house. The neighbor builds two two-story ADUs in his/her backyard with windows that face your bedroom and rents the house on Airbnb.

That's when you lift your hands up and cry, you've got to be kidding! You start reading Nextdoor, join a neighborhood activist group and attend protest rallies against greedy politicians and developers.

You're not alone! Sign up to become a 'friend of Trudy G' to keep your sense of humor and sanity about this nonsense. Enjoy the sunsets!

You pay $6,000 rent, do you want to share the pool with new Airbnb guests every few days?

You live in an exclusive apartment building in Bankers Hill, Little Italy or near Petco Park. Do you want to deal with a new batch of bachelorettes and rowdy drunks every two nights using the pool, the hot tub, the gym, being loud at all hours?

You might have to because the City of San Diego allows Airbnb rentals in apartment buildings!

In 2025, the City of San Diego has 8,200 legal STRs, enforced by a staff of six.

Would you pay Airbnb a $5,000 membership fee? You do! It's passed on in higher house prices and expensive long-term rentals.

Airbnb's net worth is $77B. They got rich by suing cities to eliminate zoning so they could put unsupervised hotels in neighborhoods.

The housing market started on its decline when Airbnb released its smartphone app in 2010.

Cities have eliminated zoning, investors pay over market rate knowing that renting the property as an Airbnb will cover their expenses, and first-time buyers have gotten priced out of starter homes.

What's more important? Housing or vacation rentals?

Airbnb's cute ads make their product seem friendly, but the executives are as nice as Genghis Khan and Napoleon. Their legal team sues cities who resist, they hire lobbyists to grease organizations and politicians who promote no zoning, build more.

This includes San Diego's Mayor Gloria, California's Governor Newsom, State Senators Weiner and Wicks, Assembly members Alvarez, San Diego's YIMBY DEMS and local building trades.

The world's largest short-term vacation rental platform needs a constant increase in rental units and profits to keep Wall Street and institutional investors like Vanguard happy.

Renting an Airbnb is paying allegiance to the bully ruining your community behind your back. You may as well bend and kiss Brian Chesky's hand.

Here's the public record of who Airbnb gives donations to: they don't donate using "Airbnb", they use: Committee to Expand the Middle Class Candidate. Sponsored by Airbnb Inc. https://www.transparencyusa.org/ca/committee/committee-to-expand-middle-class-candidate-committee-sponsored-by-airbnb-inc-1437529-rcp

AUTHOR: In 2020 I was enjoying paradise when a local investor opened a sleeps 14 Airbnb near me. The parties were huge and they happened nightly.

When the investor, the host, Airbnb and the City of San Diego didn't help, I thought something smelled fishy. It turned out I was right.

Airbnb planned to end zoning and had spent a lot of money to make sure San Diego would not resist. Listen to the 2.5 minute YouTube video and you'll hear Airbnb's VP of RE say this.

Four years later I heard about a proposed 240'h tower in the San Diego 30'h coastal area, a tower that would include an Airbnb hotel and luxury apartments.

Airbnb, politicians, developers. Parasites getting wealthy by devouring our city.

I feel like I'm talking to the wall when I email the mayor and city council, telling them, all I want is to have peace & quiet, good neighbors and community....

That's when I knew Governor Newsom is having a good time running California. The fact that he can override Prop D, a San Diego law since '72, which made it illegal to build higher than 30' in the coastal area, tells us how much control Newsom has over California cities.

"The mayor has announced that he will allow a 23-story tower in a coastal community."

That's what we're expecting. After all, towers fill Little Italy, Hillcrest, Bankers Hill and downtown. Hi-rise apartment buildings with rooftop pools commanding high rents of $4,136+/1 bedroom.

In addition to dealing with politicians, we have YIMBY DEMS bragging how towers offer housing. They ignore how the towers are not affordable for families and individuals who can pay only 30% of their income for rent. YIMBY DEMS endorse the politicians who support build more and abundance, including Newsom, Gloria and Weiner. Airbnb and the building trade unions financially support these YIMBY politicians and the YIMBY DEMS. .

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Why the neighbors are worried...2.5 minute video about an Airbnb party house https://www.youtube.com/@tootstells

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Welcome to California

Governor Gavin Newsom told Charlie Kirk, "I'm a YIMBY and my biggest problem with building more housing is the NIMBYs," (folks who want responsible housing development).

How can he be a YIMBY and live in a $9.1M mansion in Marin County-- Billionaire's Row?

What do we think of a wealthy politician who goes to a fancy restaurant during Covid? He later apologized and says it was stupid.

Images of San Diego

YIMBY Dems of San Diego endorse Mayor Todd Gloria

YIMBY 12 second video clip, Newsom talking with Charlie Kirk, March 2025

Welcome to San Diego

Our mayor is not the Dali Lama.

Gloria attends YIMBY events, sometimes in secret, and endorses developers eager to build ADU apartments and luxury towers anywhere.

He asks City Council members, did you successfully oppose the Nimbys?

San Diego is great....