2. The US would move further up the suicide table if you classify deaths from overdosing as suicides.
3. If the US population had not had such an easy access to "happy pills" (mood enhancers), the suicide rate would have been higher.
>A new job should be across the street for such a person
There are a lot of people coming and leaving S.V. on any single day. This has been discussed many times on HN.
If you are happy in S.V., good for you, but don't project the mini-bubble you live onto the whole country.
And yet, bay area population went from 7.15M in 2010 to 7.75M in 2017 [1].
> ... don't project the mini-bubble you live ...
The thread is literally asking for personal anecdotes (Ask HN). Why should one not post about their positive experiences with SV in that case?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area#Demogra...
2. The US would move further up the suicide table if you classify deaths from overdosing as suicides.
3. If the US population had not had such an easy access to "happy pills" (mood enhancers), the suicide rate would have been higher.
>A new job should be across the street for such a person
There are a lot of people coming and leaving S.V. on any single day. This has been discussed many times on HN.
If you are happy in S.V., good for you, but don't project the mini-bubble you live onto the whole country.