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>its public transportation is third world at best

There are muni stops within 1 block of 80% of all residences in SF. Having just moved back to SF from LA let me tell you there is no reason to bemoan public transportation here.

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When I was in Budapest, I had a metro station, a bus stop, two tram stops and a public bike sharing station within a block from my apartment. The trams run every 4-5 minutes during off-peak, and if they ever stop during the night, we didn't notice, despite arriving at 5am and being awake until 3am.

That's a public transportation system!

To be fair, the Public Transport system in the Eastern European states is usually pretty dense. The downside is that most of the buses and trains seem to be from the soviet era

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