Hotels in Dallas for at least 15 years have disuaded people from walking even a few blocks downtown because they equate all the homelessness with crime.

I found this funny because by far the biggest danger I have seen there are endless electric scooters littering the sidewalks.

Agreed, but just so no one latches onto what I think you meant as a joke, the overwhelming majority of homeless people in California are native Californians.

Pretty sure they often "moved" to ca via government busses

I’ve been to more US states and cities than most Americans and every city I’ve been to has a severe homeless problem.

Whilst it’s true that europe does have homelessness too, and it has gotten worse in recent years, it is incomparable to America.

It doesn’t seem like a problem that can be fixed by some local policy or other. It’s a societal problem.

America also has stratospheric levels of inequality, a terrible healthcare system, and lacks a functional welfare state. I do not think this is a coincidence.

I’d much rather live somewhere more civilised, at the cost of higher taxation.

It always irks me to see Americans taunt Europeans on social media about their lack of very large tech companies, whilst the Europeans are perhaps too dignified to point out the consequences of America’s hypercapitalism (such as homelessness, crime, and trump) in return.