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This got me thinking...though logically the choice should be Paris as it's the only place from these on the list that can be reached easily by say car, truck and not airplane or boat which will be more expensive from the place I would come.
This got me thinking...though logically the choice should be Paris as it's the only place from these on the list that can be reached easily by say car, truck and not airplane or boat which will be more expensive from the place I would come.
Plane tickets are already paid for so you don't need to worry about that.
The western cities will have very generous benefits for the poor. HK and Dubai tend to be super-capitalist, survival of the fittest type places, where the poor live in horrific conditions.
I might also eliminate LA and Tokyo. I don't think Tokyo has super-good benefits for the poor, and LA isn't really known fro this either. Not sure about Sydney. But NYC, London and Paris have VERY good benefits for the poor. It's the middle class that struggles in these cities, not the poor.
None of the above as they are all too expensive. I'd choose somewhere like Ho Chi Minh City that is dirt cheap and has great weather IMO.
Wait, if you were poor, you would move to Ho Chi Minh City over a rich western city?
In NYC, a poor person gets free housing BY LAW. The city is required to house anyone who asks, provided they can prove they are poor. They also get free food, a monthly paycheck, almost free cell phone, and free college/job training.
In the third world, you will get nothing. You will be eating out of the garbage and living in the street if you don't have a job.
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Sydney - it has a decent climate, a decent welfare state and Australia has a good economy, whilst housing is cheaper in parts of Australia than in many parts of the western world.
I wouldn't want to be poor in London, Paris or NYC, especially during the winter.
Whilst LA has too many gangs and shootings, and the poor have been displaced in San Francisco indeed California is more of a place where societies beautiful and succesful winners are celebrated, it is not really a place for losers.
I also would not want to be poor in Dubai or Hong Kong as both are very expensive places to live, whilst Tokyo is a vast mega city and Japanese Society is very much orientated towards educational attainment and success.
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