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Is San Francisco literally hell on earth?
>Insane wealth/class disparity, so anyone not well off is resentful
>destructive drug usage everywhere
>rent/cost of living is exorbitant
>well paying jobs have no work life balance
>everyone who's employed is miserable, and overworked
>buying power is laughable, even for the "good" jobs; everyone works harder and harder, for less and less
>fake "diversity" composed of people of only a few ethnicities, all Ivy league backgrounds
>virtue signaling
>everyone is absorbed into their own little social media sphere, frittering away the little free time they do have in the most asocial way possible
>insane gender imbalance
>everyone here moved from somewhere else, breaking down any social structure
>enforced fun/company outings eat up more free time, while astroturfing over the problems of unnatural/forced social interaction
>Everyone keeps everyone else at arms length, because switching jobs is so common; preventing any meaningful relationships from developing
>taxes
>fines
>city government is wasteful and incompetent
>everyone is looking out for #1, with a thin veneer of empathy
People were not meant to live like this, I feel like I'm living out the details of a terrible dystopian novel.
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>>38511476
It's a liberal eden
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>>38511476
>anyone not well off is resentful
you can't stop people from being resentful. The poor resent the rich for having money, the rich resent the poor for trying to take their money. The more equal society gets the more everyone resents not having more.
>everyone is looking out for #1, with a thin veneer of empathy
Yeah welcome to human nature. We can only maintain personal relationships with a maximum of about 300 people or so at a time, everyone else in the world is a stranger that, when push comes to shove, we don't give half a shit about.
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>>38511594
>you can't stop people from being resentful.
True
>The poor resent the rich for having money, the rich resent the poor for trying to take their money. The more equal society gets the more everyone resents not having more.
I've lived in areas where wealth disparity is less extreme. Everyone seemed much happier, but it's hard to not conflate all the other factors.
>everyone is looking out for #1, with a thin veneer of empathy
It seems particularly bad here. Due to the economic and social pressures, people here seem particularly inauthentic. I've lived in about 7 different cities/towns, SF is by far the worst.
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>>38511672
I think it's just that they make it more obvious, because of the traits that they have to peacock as their group-membership badges. People everywhere do that now. Ironically, everyone being so fake all the time encourages people to look for authenticity. Which makes people more fake, as they pretend to be authentic. Or rather, pretend to be whatever the paragon representative of their area/group/class would be.
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