Or Sisko just really went back there THAT much more often. Nog didn't have to go every single day to be on a first name basis with someone. Maybe Sisko beamed home for lunch and dinner every day and Nog only went 2 or 3 times a week.
It's also just as possible that Nog utilized some other form of free public transportation (shuttlecraft bus, perhaps, from San Francisco to New Orleans might only take a few minutes for the 3500 km journey), or that transporter credits were only a thing in the 2350s and before, and the 2370s saw a move towards free transporter use that would evolve to the transport doorways of the 2390s. And dinner even once a week or twice a month might be enough for Nog to get to know everyone at Joseph's restaurant, especially if they don't get lots of Starfleet cadets (and certainly Ferengi) due to the distance.
It wasn't poverty. She had a self sustainable and isolated hut, sat around drinking and smoking weed all day, basically doing whatever the fuck she wanted. I mean, in a utopia, people can do what they want and Raffi decided to do that. Was she happy? No, but that wasn't related to her living situation, it was to her work and life situation. I never got the argument.
I think it's all based on her odd, bitter line about Picard's chateaux. Edit that out and she's just another Trek outlier, but on Earth rather than off in some isolated colony a'la Flint, Graves, Soong, the Manhiems...
That doesn't make the comment make sense. Maybe she's also pissed at all the people who stare at her when she goes into town for anything she can't replicate because she's got that burning stick in her mouth. Who does that anymore?
She's not sick with an untreatable illness because she doesn't have the resources to pay for treatment and she's not lacking for food. She's not poor.
I mean, ambassadors did that on Nimbus 3. Also, being angry makes her comment make sense. It's not logical.
The population on 23rd/24th Century Earth is in the billions and crosses a wide spectrum of cultures, species and habits.
Yep. If she IS living at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder by 24th century Earth standards though - I'd like to see that. It's as important to see how people live at the bottom on Earth, to really grasp how much the world's problems have been fixed, and how hopeful Star Trek actually is about the future. NOBODY on Earth has to lack for food or health care or shelter and that's the whole damn point. What passes for "poor" in a world that's eliminated actual poverty, is far better than what even passes for middle class in my region.
She was just deliberately trying to hurt Picard's feelings due to her feelings of abandonment. We've all gotten dramatic in arguments. Probably not as dramatic as she did, since she'd had a weapon drawn on him, as well.
Definitely haven't done that. Definitely have used hyperbole as a weapon in an argument. Not proud of it but when humans are hurt it can happen. Treating everything Raffi says as literal truth is having her speak in a way humans don't usually speak.