(05-11-2019, 07:16 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: PBR...I wrote in vernacular English. I know you are familiar with that so I don't buy your excuse.
You did not use it well. You left some ambiguity in meaning.
Quote:Having been to San (Francisco) I would trade being anywhere else than there. There is literal human excrement on the street like a third world country. ...many third world countries are more hygienic! Want that city? You can have it.
The problem is that people can get away with homelessness longer in San Francisco as they couldn't in many other parts of America. the climate is obvious enough; the only peril is a cold rain in the winter milder than practically anywhere else in the winter. So you contrast some fire-and-ice climates in the Midwest (Waterloo, Iowa has a record low of -4F and a record high of 100F both in April -- one could experience both frostbite and heatstroke in the same month, in theory!), and it is easy to see why homelessness is far more a horror in some places than others.
Many troubled people unhappy where they are have some idea of what San Francisco is -- a climatic paradise with much beauty -- and think that they might give it a chance. They can't afford the rent, and finding a public toilet is trouble. Many of those people are alcoholics or addicts if not insane, which means that relocating isn't so easy for them as it looks. So after they get caught for some petty offense like shoplifting or public urination they are questioned about where they came from and are usually sent back to some place where they have relatives.
It is possible for a Third World City (let us say Pyongyang or Havana) to be hygienic -- if the political system is repressive. Enough said!
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.