>Everywhere else has the same problems, but they aren't as bad.
On a per capita basis, yes they are.
On a per capita basis, yes they are.
Only one of those states has weather suitable for living outside.
More importantly, the comment I was replying to was not limited to "homelessness" as the thing where CA was worse than elsewhere. Rent in particular needs to be evaluated relative to local worker earnings.
For example, I no longer have to step over human feces and used needles. My rent is literally half what it used to be.
I was paying twice as much to live in a place with less space and more unpleasantness, and I don't how how you make any of those "per capita" problems because everyone experienced them.
You could move to hundreds of places within CA and make the same claim.