[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.