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by GDC7
1677 days ago
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And none of that happens anywhere basically (except maybe some barrios in El Salvador or Venezuela) Besides, in this world the shit is everywhere it's just the color that changes and the window dressing that makes people believe otherwise. I'd rather deal with impoverished people and deal personally with my security than some scum of Silicon Valley such as Elizabeth Holmes or Elon Musk. |
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I lived for some years in a "good" suburb of a pretty well-known third-world city. Everyone had security bars on the windows and razor wire (or similar) atop their walls. Many of our neighbours employed round-the-clock armed guards.
I personally witnessed a police-vs-robbers shootout (leaving at least one dead on the ground) from my office window. For a while, carrying a pillion passenger on a motorcycle was banned because it was such a popular way to do drive-by shootings.
The majority of the expatriate community I knew there had personally experienced violent crime of some form (armed break-ins, hold-ups, car-jacking, etc). So had some of my local friends, of course, though many of them were much less well-off and therefore less of a target (you can't snatch someone's car at gunpoint if they don't have one).
When disorder and violence is that pervasive in a society, it can be pretty hard to live with.
But many aspects of the cost of living were indeed lower.