Although quality of life in the whole of India or China is less than in the West, quality of life in a well-defined portion (e.g. city area) of these develo

Although quality of life in the whole of India or China is less than in the West, quality of life in a well-defined portion (e.g. city area) of these developing countries will often be competitive, e.g. Dalian in China. I do agree with that partly. With infrastructure I mean everything: electricity, roads, wastewater, ... And I'm not that sure, if this will be the same than in western countries in the next few decades. Of course, if you hide out in some gated areas or luxury domicils you can have the same quality of life. And yes, this is a generalization, no doubts. But if you look for example at the striving Mumbai area, the environmental problems already present, and most probably increasing such as the groundwater issues they have, won't increase quality of live for most of the people. And in China despite the recent massive infrastructure investments similar problems are already present. I don't say there are no such problems in the west, but I think (not an expert anyway) that these problems are going to be much more present in named countries. As I said, this is just a generalization and exceptions exist.