Visited Paris last November and the situation looked very differently - homeless were present, but did not appear to be the same mentally ill types that I see i

Visited Paris last November and the situation looked very differently - homeless were present, but did not appear to be the same mentally ill types that I see in LA and SF. That's not a coincidence - France has universal healthcare (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_France https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_France). It's really disheartening to see the plight of people who could have been helped. Especially, given that we (US) spend more per capita on healthcare... Another interesting observation is the difference between LA and SF. In LA (beach areas and west LA/Westwood) a side from minor inconvenience of a line outside public beach restrooms/showers and some encampments, there really isn't a disruption. In SF, people walk in yelling into stores, act out aggressively in broad daylight and generally don't seem to feel any restraint. I never felt particularly unsafe in LA, but definitely had to watch my surroundings last weekend in SF, much more than ever before in the last decade.