This has been my only experience in HCOL areas. Either the tenants do the maintenance or no maintenance occurs. Despite the fact that this is actually illegal in some instances, landlords are aware that legal action is not worthwhile from a tenants perspective.
Its not so bad if you move around every year or two because landlords will do maintenance between tenants, or if you're renting higher-end properties. But if you're a forever-renter of cheap apartments, it can be quite a problem.
Can't you just talk to someone for the simple heck of it?
I have had a few interesting conversations with strangers on planes. Most recently, I talked to a former government worker from Hawaii. I never saw them again, but I enjoyed just hearing their experiences and views because they were a random person from a completely random walk of life that I would otherwise never encounter as part of my normal weekly routine.
I was just telling someone how I wish there were higher expectations for personal hygene at airports. I've had many flights made significantly more miserable by smelly people who obviously haven't showered recently. A very slight dress code, like no sweatpants or tank tops, would go a long way towards encouraging people to wash themselves and wear clean clothes before they sit 6 inches away from me for 5 hours.
In the last year or so I've noticed a lot of accounts whose username follows this naming format. Usually its: Adjective_noun_1234 but sometimes the underscores are hyphens. I really do wonder if these are all bot accounts.
I'm a little surprised how long Twitter has managed to last in it's current form. I don't know any real life people, besides celebrities, who actually actively use twitter. I never understood how it is able to sustain itself. But then again... tabloid magazines are still sold in grocery stores even though I've never seen anybody ever purchase one... Operating costs must be low.
Now that AI is widely available, I think it will be in social media platforms' interest to develop verification methods that make sure that real people are using the platform and not AI.
Its not so bad if you move around every year or two because landlords will do maintenance between tenants, or if you're renting higher-end properties. But if you're a forever-renter of cheap apartments, it can be quite a problem.