[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.