[colechristensen]

The problems in California are, in my experience, considerably worse than other places.

Everywhere else has the same problems, but they aren't as bad.

Rent isn't as high, the homelessness issues are lower, the local governments are somewhat less ridiculous...

[PopAlongKid]

>Everywhere else has the same problems, but they aren't as bad.

On a per capita basis, yes they are.

[marcusverus]

A quick google search gives results indicating that homelessness in California is significantly higher in CA, even on a per capita basis, with a rate that is marginally higher than New York, ~3X higher than Florida, ~5X higher than Texas. [0] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/states-with...

[PopAlongKid]

Well, there is the mild year-round climate thing. Note that the survey in your link was conducted in January.

More importantly, the comment I was replying to was not limited to "homelessness" as the thing where CA was worse than elsewhere. Rent in particular needs to be evaluated relative to local worker earnings.

[CameronNemo]

Don't Florida and Texas ship the people they don't want to California, Illinois, and New York?

Only one of those states has weather suitable for living outside.

[marcusverus]

Texas and Florida give free bus rides to illegal immigrants who want to travel to self-described “sanctuary cities”. How does that relate to homelessness?

[CameronNemo]

https://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/road-to-nowhere-...

[colechristensen]

They're not.

For example, I no longer have to step over human feces and used needles. My rent is literally half what it used to be.

I was paying twice as much to live in a place with less space and more unpleasantness, and I don't how how you make any of those "per capita" problems because everyone experienced them.

[PopAlongKid]

>For example, I no longer have to step over human feces and used needles. My rent is literally half what it used to be.

You could move to hundreds of places within CA and make the same claim.

[kaesar14]

Spend some time in New York and San Francisco and say with a straight face the problems are correspondingly that much worse in New York (which has a population of 10x vs SF) per capita. There's probably LESS homelessness, visible drug use, and crime in New York on an absolute basis than SF.

[PopAlongKid]

The comment I was responding to was about states, not cities. Further, SF-San Jose-Oakland metro has way more than one tenth the population of NYC metro, your comment seems to imply that homelessness doesn't exist outside the city limits of a single city in a large metro area.