We moved to Turkey from San Francisco to continue working on our startup

Post by Gabriel_Martin » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 4:44 PM UTC

dentemple wrote: post #42

analogmemory wrote: post #35

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Cool. Good to see the privileged viewpoint of white folks still exists. I'd imagine it's much easier to judge others over the internet that to actually find ways to help them. And yes I'm being purposely judgemental of you. Have you taken the time to understand why these states happen for transient folks? Our mental health system is broken and the federal government refuses to grand basic health care for all its citi…

that's a harsher reply that it needs to be, mate

Post by bluGill » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 4:45 PM UTC

toasterlovin wrote: post #60

shafyy wrote: post #25

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Oversimplifying here, but the homeless probem arises due to high housing cost and poor health care system. In addition to fighting the symptoms (which is already being done ok-ish), we need to fight the mentioned root causes. Unfortunately, the health care problem goes back to CA or even on a national level. Often times, mentally ill or people that lost their jobs for another reason become homeless, and from there th…

The specific problems OP mentions are not due to high housing costs. What about rent being expensive means people have to shoot up or defecate in broad daylight on a public street?

Post by CPLX » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 4:47 PM UTC

shuckles wrote: post #72

CPLX wrote: post #66

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I dunno. As someone who lives in NYC where we really just don't have the same problem at all it's pretty clear there are some policy reasons involved too.

This seems like a stretch. I saw my fair share of empty subway cars which contained within them an unpleasant surprise when I was there last month. Not conclusive, but “at all” is a very strong standard.

Post by shafyy » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 4:47 PM UTC

toasterlovin wrote: post #60

shafyy wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oversimplifying here, but the homeless probem arises due to high housing cost and poor health care system. In addition to fighting the symptoms (which is already being done ok-ish), we need to fight the mentioned root causes. Unfortunately, the health care problem goes back to CA or even on a national level. Often times, mentally ill or people that lost their jobs for another reason become homeless, and from there th…

The specific problems OP mentions are not due to high housing costs. What about rent being expensive means people have to shoot up or defecate in broad daylight on a public street?

Post by dfundako » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 4:48 PM UTC

asdfman123 wrote: post #67

As an outsider, at this point I have no idea why anyone would want to do a startup in SF. I mean, obviously, all the connections and resources are nice, but you are literally burning investor money on $5k/mo rent. That's absurd. Rent out a house in Austin, Texas for $2k and each of your co-founders can share a room. There's investors and as deep a talent pool as you'll ever need unless you're GoogleAmazon and you nee…