[SmokingJoe]

Midler needs to visit the massive homeless encampments in San Francisco. It's not that far from her.
She will see all the “poor, illiterate and strung out” people she wants right there.
Nearly half of the U.S.’s homeless people live in one state: California

[xp38]

If she lives in the LA area she doesn’t have to go to SF. Massive homeless encampments are even closer.