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re: Why First World Countries Have Third World Cities
Posted on 2/28/18 at 3:30 pm to BamaAtl
Posted on 2/28/18 at 3:30 pm to BamaAtl
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not a single city in the US (save maybe Flint of late) is anywhere approaching a true third-world city. If you believe otherwise, travel more.
One of the first true things you’ve ever posted.
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Posted on 2/28/18 at 3:31 pm to L.A.
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If New Orleans were a country it would have the second highest homicide rate in the world.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 3:36 pm to udtiger
I've never been to Flint, is it really that bad?
Posted on 2/28/18 at 3:42 pm to BamaAtl
quote:Wow, you guys are touchy. It's just an article to start a little discussion.
Btw, not a single city in the US (save maybe Flint of late) is anywhere approaching a true third-world city. If you believe otherwise, travel more.
And fwiw, I have traveled extensively throughout Central America and South America (Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile). I don't think I have been in any cities in the USA that I would call 3rd World. In every American city I have visited the mail gets delivered, public utilities like water, electricity and gas work regularly and normally, American cities are not routinely crippled by strikes, our grocery stores are regularly stocked with staples need to feed the public, etc. So I'm not sure what he means when he calls Baltimore, Detroit and New Orleans 3rd World cities. I haven't been to Baltimore and Detroit, but New Orleans certainly isn't a 3rd World city.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 3:44 pm to L.A.
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Wow, you guys are touchy. It's just an article to start a little discussion.
It really is weird how people can become so literal.
"Tie games are like kissing your sister"
NO it is not!!! How is it depraved and incestuous to simply have a tie score in a sporting contest?
yeeesh
Posted on 2/28/18 at 3:45 pm to L.A.
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Wow, you guys are touchy. It's just an article to start a little discussion.
I'm not really upset. Just looks like a foreign professor (I see he's here on exchange from Australia LINK) who pretty much missed the boat on the actual dynamics of what he's discussing.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 3:46 pm to BlackHelicopterPilot
Word. 
Posted on 2/28/18 at 3:51 pm to L.A.
Not sure about the operational definition of third world countries, but several towns along the Mississippi Delta are amongst the worst places I’ve seen anywhere.
And I’ve traveled extensively.
The area in NW MS was an eye-opener to me.
And I’ve traveled extensively.
The area in NW MS was an eye-opener to me.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 3:59 pm to L.A.
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Why First World Countries Have Third World Cities
Because they're filled with third world people.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 4:27 pm to BamaAtl
quote:I feel safer in most third-world cities than I do in many parts of New Orleans
Btw, not a single city in the US (save maybe Flint of late) is anywhere approaching a true third-world city. If you believe otherwise, travel more.
This post was edited on 2/28/18 at 4:27 pm
Posted on 2/28/18 at 5:36 pm to AlterDWI
quote:reminds me of my first night in Argentina. We had dinner in the home of an American ex-pat who had been living in Argentina for about 20 years at the time. He asked me if I knew why Argentina was a 3rd World country. I said no, why? He said, "Because there's no 4th World. If there was they'd be right down there in it."
Why First World Countries Have Third World Cities Because they're filled with third world people.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 5:38 pm to L.A.
TLDR: Taxation and overregulation
Posted on 2/28/18 at 5:51 pm to BamaAtl
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Btw, not a single city in the US (save maybe Flint of late) is anywhere approaching a true third-world city.
Nice of you to finally admit our "poor" are not actually poor.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 5:51 pm to CubMajorTiger
quote:Yes.
TLDR: Taxation and overregulation
Posted on 2/28/18 at 5:56 pm to L.A.
People don’t think chocolate cities be like it is, but it do
Posted on 2/28/18 at 5:56 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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I feel safer in most third-world cities than I do in many parts of New Orleans
I didn’t feel safe really anywhere in Guatemala City. But that’s a pretty extreme example.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 6:20 pm to BamaAtl
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And their surrounding states some of the loosest.
And yet the surrounding areas crime rates are much lower.
Try again progressive filth!
Posted on 2/28/18 at 6:30 pm to BamaAtl
quote:you need documentation to cross our southern border? How did all these illegals get here?
You need documentation to cross the borders of US states?
What a weird fantasy world you live in.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 7:42 pm to BamaAtl
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More that the ease of acquiring guns in Texas (and Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama and Arkansas and Georgia and Florida) render moot whatever gun control measures New Orleans specifically has
Yeah because all the guns in NOLA were legally purchased in Texas or Mississippi and brought to Louisiana for crime.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 7:52 pm to L.A.
He’s clearly never been to a third world country
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