MetalParakeet
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- Mar 12, 2017
When I moved to Nicaragua, we had to subsist on fans. They're not lying when they say countries like that have scheduled work breaks in the middle of the day because the heat gets too extreme.In some of the shitholes they live in (LA for example, or even NYC) you could still die of heat stroke in the summer sun if you're not careful. Plenty of old people pass out on the sidewalk and have to get hauled to the ER. NYC heatwaves are also infamous due to the concrete trapping all the heat and cooking the city.
If everyone lived without AC and without cars in places like that the quality of life would be miserable. And the AC in their house wastes more energy than the average car enjoyer.
In Managua, they use the emergency warning (that woOOOoOoo sound) to let people know it's noon and that they can close up shop for a few hours.
Until I lived downtown in a tourist town, I had to pump my own water. 30min of pumping basically equaled a quick shower and a single toilet flush.
But you know what? You didn't need an education to move there. You didn't need anything to buy a property. I met a ton of people (mostly from Texas, oddly enough) who ended up there because they went on vacation and then just cancelled their return ticket and bought a coffee shop or some shit.
You'll have to suffer through some inconveniences, even if you're rich. If you're wealthy enough to get an American style house, you're still going to have to deal with lack of big box grocery stores, language barrier, aggressive culture, etc.
If you're not wealthy, you get to deal with all of that plus potentially having scorpions in your toilet, electrifying shower heads and being packed onto a bus India-style for a min half hour just to get your cheetos.
People in nazi Germany would have gladly taken the "not wealthy" scenario. Cause you know, they were legit gonna die. People in America aren't because they're not actually in danger. They'll cry and scream on Twitter but if a 3rd world country was like "hey we will grant you all the rights you want, you just need to wake up at 5am to pump water so your family can shower," they'd say no.