This is all true, but the fact that people continue to pay 2 million, 3 million to live in these places shows that quality of life is objectively high even if t

This is all true, but the fact that people continue to pay 2 million, 3 million to live in these places shows that quality of life is objectively high even if trust in society is low. Hell, I’d wager that low trust societies are more free. That’s why you see the lowest trust and the stuff you describe in the hippy liberal PNW. Highest trust society on earth, Singapore, has no real freedom of speech, of protest, of consumption, etc I’ll take homeless, needles, and poorly reported property crime so I can have legal weed and mushrooms, and the best outdoors/weather in the world, plenty of tech jobs, and clean air and water, and almost zero fear of the cops, and low violent crime (very few homeless are armed). Republicans used to love the word “federalism”. Don't tread on our liberal utopia, unironically.