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The median person in SFO lives a way worse life than a median person in Ohio

>>bluede+(OP)
Is there actual data that compares the quality of life for this? I’m curious to see how my city stacks up.

>>bluede+(OP)
Eh, you'd be surprised how much being able to walk to things, and generally being in a major international city improves your quality of life if that's the kind of thing you prefer...

>>bluede+(OP)
Maybe, but the average person there isn't “barely living” either.

>>bluede+(OP)
Only if you define "good life" as having a big house with a big yard.

>>QIYGT+t8
Last time I ate in SF, I walked past a guy smoking crack on the sidewalk. But, yeah... big house with a big yard is nice.

>>QIYGT+t8
For literally anyone raising a family, a "good life" isn't actively trying to minimize the loss of every penny of your money to outrageous cost of living, childcare, etc -- all while trying to justify the existence of a "diverse cultural experience" while dodging crack addicts, crime, and other increasingly untenable issues.

>>QIYGT+t8
Obviously the mileage varies for each person, but my own house on my own land is more enjoyable and fulfilling than anything a city can offer me.

>>zoltar+lc
What.. what does crack smoke smell like?

Cigarettes I know. Marijuana is a bit funky, but it's easy because--by process of elimination--it's not a cancer stick. But now I have to squirrel away a third possibility.

>>zoltar+lc
Can’t reply to the comment below inquiring about odor, but people smoking crack are easy to spot as you don’t roll crack in a cigarette, you smoke it out of a heated glass pipe. It looks entirely different. So it’s easy to notice when done in the open. As far as odor… I think it smells a lot like meth that, when smoked, smells like an odd laundry detergent that you have never smelled before. Sort of like a decaying air freshener. That’s the best I can do.

>>turtle+gg
A quick search suggests it smells like burning plastic or rubber

>>Zetice+F4
I’ve been to San Francisco and I’ve been to Ohio. I would much rather be a median income earner in any part of Ohio than a median income earner on the west coast.

How many people making the median income in San Francisco are living in a walkable area?

>>QIYGT+t8
If you have children, you want to be in the “good school system” at least. If you are working from home, you also want a separate office.

>>Zetice+F4
I lived in SF for 9 years. Good memories. And during peak tech boom you could easily shield yourself from the worst of the city. Ubers were cheap, office perks kept you from venturing out, and foot traffic was high enough to make the open air drug use less visible.

But since 2020, it became absolute misery.

I moved to NYC, and I’m much happier here. So your point about being in a walkable city still stands.

>>zoltar+lc
Are you sure it wasn’t fentanyl? The smoke smells like burnt peanut butter, common smell on public transit here in Seattle.

>>Fezzik+bh
> people smoking crack are easy to spot as you don’t roll crack in a cigarette, you smoke it out of a heated glass pipe. It looks entirely different.

This isn't entirely accurate, as crack isn't the only drug people use "crack pipes" for. I couldn't tell you what, if anything, crack smells like because I'm not aware of having every been in the vicinity of it being consumed, but I have been around people using what look like crack pipes and I've used them myself too.

In my case: a few times I tried vaping weed with them (though for weed an electric dry herb vape is better, and if wanting to use glass pipe and a flame there are designed-for-weed vapes which are better than generic crack-type pipes), and DMT is another illegal drug that needs (when in pure form, rather than changa) to be vaped rather than smoked - so a crack pipe can be useful for that too. I wouldn't be surprised if there are other drugs that sort of pipe can be used for, too.

Personally I wouldn't use that sort of "crack" pipe in public, partly because many people think like you that it must be crack that's being used, and partly because even people who dont have that incorrect belief could still rightly (or at least, almost always rightly) deduce that something illegal is being consumed.