Originally Posted by Sly

Ahaha don't listen to what he said. You don't really want to live in those areas.

I live in San Carlos and I'm looking at a mountain right now from my front bedroom window. San Diego has all sorts of different environments, what exactly are you looking for? Also, there seem to be a lot of open places right now. What you may want to do (I did this when I first moved here) is find some month-to-month place to stay, setup a bed and whatever you need, then shop the city til you find what you really like. I only stayed a month at that place and it ran me about $900, this was about 5 years ago. Yes it was a bit of a headache, but I think you're going to get that no matter what.