Shit-hole Countries

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Edit. Non-Political.

 

Baltimore.

 

You forgot the no politics disclaimer. I wouldn't enter this thread with a massive ordnance penetrator.

 

India is The King Of All Shit-Hole Countries

 

Is the criteria that the entire country is a shithole, or that it has areas that are exceptionally shithole-y?

I think quality of life index might be a good metric here. Some countries are poor as shit, but enjoying their life.

 

Fixed!

 

Ask @motion. I just started the thread.

 

I did not enjoy India but then again I only went out when I was forced to go see shit.

I refused to go a second time.

 

Drop the Google Street View guy almost anywhere and there's garbage.

 

True, some poor countries are very clean and the people do their best to keep the place looking good. That's definitely not shit-holey.

For example, I found Rwanda to be very clean, with virtually no trash, despite the fact that it's very poor. The surrounding countries, not so much. SE Asia for the most part, is quite poor, but very clean.

 

Calcutta India is no kidding hell on earth. Dhaka Bangladesh is nipping on its heels.

 

India can be one the most luxurious countries if you know how to travel, and have the means. My former boss traveled to India through some VIP program. People who do not fly international via commercial airliners level of shit. Anyways, they got to hang out at palaces, eat dinners with prince's, private tours, and everything about that trip was bad ass. Never before experienced level of luxury was how I remember him talking about the India journey.

No denying that the flip side is extreme poverty

 

Quality of life - wise, these seem to be the bottom 10 (aka the most shithole-y | worst to less-worst):

- Burundi
- Sierra Leone
- South Sudan
- Afghanistan
- Madagascar
- Sudan
- Syria
- Central African Republic
- Malawi
- Yemen

Honorable mentions that make some other lists like Human Development Index which takes more factors into consideration:

- DRC (Congo)
- Myanmar
- Mali
- Burkina Faso
- Chad
- Iraq
- Angola
- Ethiopia
- Cameroon
- Lebanon

I like sites like this one that allow you to adjust the "weight" of the different factors to adjust how you view QOL personally. Sadly the highest the US scores on almost any list is outside of the top 10.
https://www.worlddata.info/quality-...y=15&climate=15&costs=15&popularity=15#ranges

 

N Korea
Iran
Iraq
Lebanon
Syria
Russia

and anywhere else the government is run by fanatical dictators

 

India, spent 2 months there, an absolute love the Country and then after one second hate it for the other 59 seconds. I'm very used to things not working properly living in the Caribbean, India raised the bar

 

I'm actually jealous you went to all these places.

 

Look up theocratic countries.

 

In my experience, and speaking in very general terms, cities tend to be shit holes. Rural areas, in spite of the prevalence of poverty, are more pleasant. There are, of course, exceptions. It's all about critical mass.

 

He did?