[mtbcoder]

> high price communities where everything works, surrounded by large swaths of shanty towns where nothing works.

This isn't something that's only attributable to CA. Economically depressed towns relatively close to highly concentrated areas of wealth are all over America. Also, the scale of poverty in places like the south, Appalachia, the rust belt, rural America often meets or exceeds that of third-world countries.

[s_y_n_t_a_x]

Oh there's other poor places, it's okay guys. Let them keep shooting up and shitting in the street.

When you dismiss it like that, you're giving up on a solution and letting it fester.