
Magic wand time: Make the entire bay area a single entity like NYC, Tokyo, or London. Extend the zoning plan to the entire bay area, get rid of minimum parking space requirements in other cities in the metro, invest in transit and build infill stations in the new areas with planned increases in density.
The drug problem is another issue, but if the bay area were more affordable there would be fewer people forced out on to the streets who then turn to drugs.
Second this. Get an aeropress, a burr grinder that can go down to espresso fine grind (or find a local roaster that will roast and grind your beans to your liking), a thermometer, and a scale.
Skip the machines that can break down and are expensive to replace or hard to clean.
Edit: If you decide to go with the aeropress, I’d recommend getting one of these flow control caps. A lot of recipes for the ‘inverted method’ of brewing deal with balancing the aeropress upside down and messing around with hot coffee sludge. Just get one of these instead of doing anything inverted and risking burning yourself or spilling hot coffee sludge everywhere.
https://aeropress.com/products/aeropress-flow-control-filter-cap
I’ve tried every way to make coffee at home and aeropress is my favorite (over moka pot, french press, pour over, Mr Coffee, espresso, nespresso, keurig, turkish, etc)