I live in East Asia. I was once dreamed I could work and live in SF one day, as many tech people do.
After several trips there, I was totally disillusioned, and that's even before the COVID breakout. The glamorous side, that I already know from the Internet. However, the nasty side, that I didn't expect at all. On one hand, there was window busting and all, and there were no effective actions taken to address those. On the other hand, the system doesn't seem to care about poor and homeless people to help them and lift them from their situations. It's the worse situation on both sides of the story, and there's no fix in sight.
An outstanding issue is the price of the rent. I grew up in commie blocks and I hated it, just like everybody else: it was cheap, ugly, and depressing. After traveled around the world, I realized: the counterpart of commie blocks around the world was not nice apartments as we imagined, but slums and homelessness.
After several trips there, I was totally disillusioned, and that's even before the COVID breakout. The glamorous side, that I already know from the Internet. However, the nasty side, that I didn't expect at all. On one hand, there was window busting and all, and there were no effective actions taken to address those. On the other hand, the system doesn't seem to care about poor and homeless people to help them and lift them from their situations. It's the worse situation on both sides of the story, and there's no fix in sight.
An outstanding issue is the price of the rent. I grew up in commie blocks and I hated it, just like everybody else: it was cheap, ugly, and depressing. After traveled around the world, I realized: the counterpart of commie blocks around the world was not nice apartments as we imagined, but slums and homelessness.