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Generally speaking the people who live in SF aren't comparing SF to Boise, they are comparing SF to other elite cities like NYC, LA, Boston, Austin, etc. And the COL is not 2-3x higher in SF than those other cities.

Also as a little story about how crime infested SF is, a couple years ago my wife accidentally left her key ring in the lock on our front door (which included car keys to a car right out front), where they stayed for the next ~18 hours, right in obvious public view from the street, until we noticed the next morning. And lo and behold the crime was so bad that the keys were right there the next morning and we had a nice laugh about it.