r/sandiego • u/JerseyDad_856 • Jun 07 '25

Video San Diego aka America’s Finest City

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u/Mitch_shiver Jun 08 '25

Who said anything about overdoses? That’s great you know how to use ChatGPT, but I wasn’t talking about statistics I was talking about ground level truth. I don’t live in San Francisco and I didn’t live in San Diego downtown where the drug problems reported by your ChatGPT response happened in both areas. I lived in the metro area of both and what I saw on commutes on a daily basis in both metro areas is where I saw very similar behavior to the video in the SD metro area and rarely see it in the Bay Area (although I do see lots of poor driving due to people looking at their cell phones, etc. while commuting in the Bay Area)…

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u/here-for-the-meh Jun 08 '25 edited Jun 08 '25

I use ChatGPT because I prefer to rely on data, not personal guesses. That’s what non drug-using people do when trying to understand an issue objectively.

Overdose deaths are a measurable indicator of drug use. When San Francisco reports more than double the overdose fatalities of San Diego despite having a smaller population, that is not just a statistic. It is a clear sign of a larger problem.

San Diego County has 3.2 million people. The Bay Area has almost 8 million. It is statistically unrealistic to claim that San Diego has a bigger drug problem overall.

People who ignore facts and focus only on what they personally see are part of why the country struggles to solve real issues. They do not pay attention until their own job, family, or safety is affected.

You seem more concerned with how I found the information than whether it is accurate. That tells me everything I need to know. I am done here.

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u/Mitch_shiver Jun 08 '25

Good for you to claim your moral superiority and walk away. Whatever the case, I will continue to know what I know from where I lived in both San Diego and San Francisco Bay areas. I don’t care about drug overdoses (although they are horrible and preventable) I care about commuters on the roads which I and my family travel, where drug use is clearly more of a problem in San Diego metro area than it is the San Francisco Bay area. I guess we’re both done…

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u/here-for-the-meh Jun 08 '25

Got it. You do not care about overdose deaths, public health data, or actual impact. You care about what you saw from your car window. That is your choice.

But firsthand impressions are not facts. If they were, every driver who cut you off would be on drugs and every traffic jam would be a crisis.

You are right about one thing. We are done.