I don’t understand why anyone would buy a house here, even if they have the money. There are so many problems with the Bay Area that won’t be fixed for another

I don’t understand why anyone would buy a house here, even if they have the money. There are so many problems with the Bay Area that won’t be fixed for another generation—-open crime, quality of life, wanton theft and vandalism, open meth and heroin use, property crime worse than anywhere else in the country—-and the quality of housing is crap! Traffic, poor public transportation (still better than other cities, but not amazing), and an incompetent government that seems to thumb its nose at the working class here. Why not just buy five houses in the south of France or somewhere actually nice and liveable? I’m here for work and as soon as my nest egg is big enough, I’m getting out. Why buy a $2.5m condo and have to watch a homeless camp out your window? I just don’t really get it.