Goodbye, Eastern Europe

Re:Goodbye, Eastern Europe by sremani on Friday February 17, 2017 @11:43AM (#13669575)

You are conflating the poverty of US country side, there are certainly pockets of third-world level poverty esp. rio grande valley, Appalachia, Mississippi delta, but those are not the standard, Yes, there are relatively less wealthy than cities, but to compare them with slums of manila or Bombay is being disingenuous.

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Re:Goodbye, Eastern Europe by ddebernardy on Friday February 17, 2017 @11:47AM (#13669610)

Hence my writing "at times". Will edit to make it appear earlier for clarity. And certainly agreed that they're a far cry from favelas.

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Re:Goodbye, Eastern Europe by karmelapple on Friday February 17, 2017 @02:28PM (#13670961)

Yeah, I definitely agree that I have never been to a place in the USA that borders on third world conditions, and I've been to many rural places. Is there a particular definition you're using, or some example of a place in the USA you feel fits this?

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Re:Goodbye, Eastern Europe by coldtea on Friday February 17, 2017 @03:16PM (#13671337)

>Yeah, I definitely agree that I have never been to a place in the USA that borders on third world conditions, and I've been to many rural places

Depends on what you mean by "third world conditions" too. There are places in the third world that are heaps and bounds above some US towns and cities.

Try parts of Mississippi, Appalachia, etc. Or heck, try Pine Ridge SD, where life expectancy "in 2007 was estimated to be 48 for males and 52 for females."

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Re:Goodbye, Eastern Europe by ddebernardy on Friday February 17, 2017 @02:56PM (#13671180)

Nothing specific, just vague recollections of places in central California while visiting the area. I'd stop (or not) with an "Oh wow, I've gone to cheap taco place in Mexico that were less in shambles" in the back of my head.

It's nowhere near comparable to Latin American slums, obviously, but it certainly looked on par with what you see in the Belizean or Mexican countryside. And it was a far cry from what I've ever encountered in rural France, Benelux, or Germany outside of abandoned crack shacks.

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Re:Goodbye, Eastern Europe by bfuller on Friday February 17, 2017 @02:16PM (#13670882)

Also the third world country we like to call "Oklahoma"

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Re:Goodbye, Eastern Europe by refurb on Friday February 17, 2017 @02:51PM (#13671150)

I'm going to guess you've never been?

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Re:Goodbye, Eastern Europe by bfuller on Saturday February 18, 2017 @12:42PM (#13675698)

Have you? I live two hours from Oklahoma. I drive through regularly so I have seen much of the state.

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