Better news coverage. Besides, he might not even be noticed in San Francisco.
The first week I was in California after I moved here for my current job in 1980, I had to drive up to San Fernando Valley to visit a customer and this was my first time driving through central LA, and I saw a guy hitchhiking on the side of the road without a stitch on, and no one was even slowing down or seeming to pay any attention. It sort of confirmed much of what I'd heard about California 

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