[gsibble]

I moved to Boston. Those things you describe I saw daily in SF - broken car windows, theft at retail stores, and rampant homelessness.

I can go months in Boston without seeing a single homeless person, drive around all winter with all my skiing gear in the back of my car, hell even leave my car unlocked with my laptop in it while running into a store, and never once seen a robbery or violent attack.

No, what happens in SF is extremely disproportionate to normal around the rest of the US.

[colpabar]

It's so funny how we people will say that it's not that bad, and then their reasoning is that:

- there is homelessness, but also something expensive that I enjoy

- there is crime, but also something expensive that I enjoy

- there is open drug use, but also there is something expensive I enjoy

It seems like a 'let them eat cake' response. "Why doesn't everyone just spend the money I do so I don't have to see all these problems?"