> my impression is that some of those problems – especially the homelessness, crime and public defecation issues – are much worse in San Francisco proper (Oakla

> my impression is that some of those problems – especially the homelessness, crime and public defecation issues – are much worse in San Francisco proper (Oakland too) than in (say) Silicon Valley Kind of? Violent crime is always going to be higher in a city than the suburbs, that’s just life. But homelessness…it’s rampant everywhere, although a different kind of homelessness. Think fewer tent encampments and more motor homes. There are RVs parked on El Camino for miles down Palo Alto and Mountain View. Not, of course, on the actual residential streets, because the city made that illegal - which brings us on to the nasty politics, which I’d argue is worse in the suburbs than the cities.