But if you have $$$, is avoiding that crapola feasible? Or is it basically everywhere?
The dysfunction is pretty much everywhere but much worse in certain areas, of course.
If you have loads of $$$ there is tons of elegant stuff you may enjoy. What you can no longer enjoy is casually strolling around for hours in various totally cool niche neighborhoods filled with one-of-a-kind local businesses and restaurants priced to accommodate the throngs of ordinary people out enjoying themselves.
That was the beauty of S.F. 30 years ago. It was a real city filled with thriving people at all levels of income out and about living life and overjoyed to be here.
Now it's mostly junkies, welfare recipients, over-leveraged home owners, and young tech barons. The regular folk have largely been driven away.