[bejar37]

Sort of crazy to me that the budget for SF is $9B. Boston, which is around 200k people smaller, has a budget of <3B, which seems like a huge gap. What kind of services does SF provide that a pretty comparable city like Boston doesn't?

[jdavis703]

In the spirit of teaching a person to fish, instead of handing a fish:

http://budget.data.cityofboston.gov/#/ http://sfmayor.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/mayor/budget/SF_Budget_... (see page 11)

One example, public safety is almost 3 times more expensive. It looks like social services is also about 3 times higher. On a per capita basis, it looks like SF actually pays less for transportation. But since the budgets are broken down by different categories, it's kind of hard to tell. I'd need to do more research.