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Re:We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (2016) by rmc on Friday June 29, 2018 @08:30AM (#17424096)
I think the USA has (a) much more homeless people and (b) much less buses than random places in the UK. (I remember reading a stat from ~5 or 10 years ago that San Francisco had more homeless people than England).
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Re:We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (2016) by bluGill on Friday June 29, 2018 @10:27AM (#17424696)
San Francisco probably does have more homeless than England, but that is a likely a case of lieing with statistics. Which is to say there are external factors that make homeless likely to migrate to San Francisco meaning you will find other places "near" San Francisco with much less homeless.
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Re:We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (2016) by rmc on Friday June 29, 2018 @10:48AM (#17424817)
Yes, I'm sure the social welfare system in San Francisco is better than England.
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Re:We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (2016) by bluGill on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:12PM (#17426374)
It is better than the options elsewhere in the US. Note that temperatures above freezing all winter is already a significant improvement. There are very cold states that have a great social welfare system, but weather makes them undesirable.
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