This thread is pretty much useless. It's just hundreds of "my anecdotal point beats your anecdotal point". Scrolling through at least 95% of everything I saw is

This thread is pretty much useless. It's just hundreds of "my anecdotal point beats your anecdotal point". Scrolling through at least 95% of everything I saw is either "I've lived in the following 5+ places and the Bay Area is the worst" or the exact inverse of that. I don't even entirely understand the blog post. Did Sam see mean comments on the internet then write up something about how we can't talk about things because of said mean comments? Something everyone, including Sam, is missing is this: everyone has different experiences than you and, more importantly, in an anonymous setting such as the internet you're going to get extreme views not necessarily representing the majority far more frequently (and more loudly) than anything that could be considered moderate. Stop giving so much of a shit what other people think.