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Socioeconomic integration sounded great from afar, but I don't know how how much more sidewalk urine/feces I can take. I'm learning that I'd much rather deal with traffic and drab suburbia than in-your-face extreme poverty every time I try to take advantage of walkability and transit.

[panarky]

So it's a binary choice between walling yourself off in an affluent gated community and slogging through human waste in a dystopian urban slum.

Really no middle ground here, huh?

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If you find one in the Bay Area, please let me know.