I been to South America, tap water was fine except in the coastal areas, specially the beaches in Brazil where you should always drink filtered or bottled water. Heard its pretty bad in Bolivia but then again they are the Mexico of South America (Mexico is technically in North America, hence the analogy)
This is pretty much true with exceptions. I would much rather live in a dirt poor village in Yunnan, East Timor, Bhutan, or Mongolia than in Chiraq, Compton, or some other shithole ghetto. If you live with people who are criminals and deadbeats life is meaningless, depressing, and dangerous. However, I would rather live in the fucking ghetto than India or the Congo or some other shithole. And at this point its basically about the race of the people. Asians can create a more of less functioning society even if it is alien. Arabs, Persians, and Moors can too, I wouldn't want to live there because of the constant geopolitical conflicts and wars that go on. But if we're being transported back into the zenith of the Ottoman empire or something where there's stability, sure. South America is a similar situation - the drug wars and cartels just make life there a brutal hell. But if they got their version of Mao Zedong stringing up the drug traffickers for a couple years, sure. But just like I wouldn't want to live in Arizona in the Wild West days, I wouldn't want to live in the Middle East or much of South/Central America today. Indians and Africans simply cannot create a society that any white European would feel comfortable living as a minority in, and even the shittiest American ghetto is nice by comparison.
Even if you go and try to change things and report every kind of corruption you see you'll have a price on your head because you'll be dealing with a literal mafia and every office is a snakepit.
It really depends on what third world country. There's plenty of high end restaurants and luxury good stores in Latin America, the Philippines, hell, even places like Pakistan have malls that would not be out of place in the First World, but once you start hitting places like the Central African Republic, Afghanistan, or Somalia, there's just not enough middleclass/rich people or tourists to have those amenities.
Kek I was a millionaire last week with just $650..
You can make that whole Europe. I was surprised when I found out US tapwater is hazardous.
The European standard for Total Dissolved Solids is 1000 ppm, the EPA standard considers anything over 500 a problem. Imagine being a Eurocuck.
One could argue that the "ghetto" is shit based on the actions of the individuals there. Meanwhile, some third world shitholes can make the most of their circumstances.
American tap water isnt hazardous. What happened in flint, michigan was a massive mistake that outraged the whole country. In the 3rd world thats normal and you have to have a reverse osmosis filter if you want clean water
Unlike the first world in most third world countries outwards expressions of depression and sadness are not cool, most consider it a sign of weakness. Complaining about your miserable existence will only get you ostracized in a place that like you say its already very low-trust, so everybody just pretends things are fine. Meanwhile in the first world people have weaponized depression, in some circles you are an out of touch weirdo if you're not burning money on a therapist to talk about your non-existent problems as part of the upper class of a rich country.
That and that if they do remote work or have savings they get to live relatively large. I know people who went from living in a studio apartment smaller than my garage to a house with a pool in Mexico during the whole digital nomad bullshit. Most Americans never had a maid, meanwhile practically every middle class family I saw when in South America had a maid, some even a live-in maid. Its funny what we consider luxury varies from place to place, like in some South American countries like Brazil people would pay out the ass to get into a gated community just so they could walk outside at night, something you can do in practically any American town that hasn't gone completely to shit. All those first world "expats" (because for them calling themselves migrant is so low-class) are really gonna miss that when they get kidnapped by a gang and tortured until someone gives them money, and sometimes they kill the victims even after getting the ransom.
I'm very well aware of that since I'm from a Third World shithole myself. Funny thing is most people from these countries deal with these problems by abusing alcohol and/or drugs. Suicide is very taboo in such societies but you have people slowly killing themselves through booze and dope habits while saving face displaying religiousness in a very shallow and often predictable way.
What about the lower strata?
Here's some melancholic Samba for you to open your mind:
Talking about your depression (real or fake) has been making its way down for years, specially ever since it became yet another way to get out of trouble and/or source of free pity. You can see it in this very site how even rednecks now talk about having depression.
Not the same, samba is mostly happy music, have you seen tango lyrics? its all about poverty, women not wanting you, corruption, how the world has always been shit. Don't let the tunes fool you, the most upbeat one I remember was a song where the guy was basically singing about how it would be like the day some woman somewhere would finally like him, which in reality its quite a downer when you think about it.
