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These countries fail the obvious "places I could tolerate living in" test.

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• senttoschool 4y ago
  Lived in China. World class cities. Amazing public transportation locally and continentally. Low inflation. Extremely low crime. No random gun violence. Amazing natural and historic wonders.
  • seanmcdirmid 4y ago
    All that plus traffic much worse than an American could imagine and 500+ 2.5 PPM days. Ultimate had to leave because the wife couldn’t handle the AQI and we had a baby on the way.
    • senttoschool 4y ago
      True. Although I would take the traffic issues over randomly getting shot any day.
      • seanmcdirmid 4y ago
        It turns out that most people don’t get randomly shot in the USA (most gun violence is suicide or with people that are already looking for trouble), but everyone gets stuck in traffic. The traffic didn’t bother me that much, I just went to work at 6AM and came back around 3 PM. The problem was the air pollution, when you start affecting life expectancy and unlike gun violence isn’t easy to avoid.
        • senttoschool 4y ago
          https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65092102 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65092102