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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I don’t have any clue about the right vs left angle.
But as someone who has actually lived in the Bay Area and still has a bunch of family and friends there I speak to regularly, I’m not talking out of my ass. It’s cool you visited, it’s cool people read articles, but it’s hardly a whole picture.
People want to pin it on one thing, it’s not. Yeah, there are issues, as I said, but it’s also overblown in a lot of senses and the constant doom and gloom put out by the media is actually making some of the problems worse.
You tell people something is dangerous and they’ll stop doing that thing, even if the level of actual danger doesn’t warrant that reaction. Perception outweighs reality in this case.
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Just to be sure, "used to live in the Bay Area" puts you in a position of authority, where as "spent a month per year in the City itself up to and including last year" = scared tourist, perception outweighs reality.
Got it. No True Scotsman over here.