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Iquitos. Great to see the Amazon and all but it is incredibly expensive by Peruvian standards (it is twice as expensive as cities like Arequipa!!!) and the internet is slow as hell because of the whole "being surrounded by thousands of miles of rainforest" thing. The internet is slow enough to actually be maddening, sometimes it takes five minutes to load one page!
I was in Iquitos.
Peru was great to visit but would frustrate the sh*t out of me if I had to live there.
NYC is great to visit, but it is way too expensive, has way too much crime and grimey in the 4.5 of the boroughs. And its dirty. If I was forced to live in the area I would chose like Oyster Bay LI, Greenwich CT, Around White Plains NY or like somewhere in North NJ like Livingston or Ridgewood.
I lived there for 2 years and loved it. I don't think the culture is aggressive at all. As a matter of fact I think it is the complete opposite and quite docile. I never had a hostile encounter with random strangers like I have had some places. Old ladies were falling over themselves to get up and give me their Metro seats when I broke my ankle.
The language is difficult to become fluent in but you can learn enough to navigate reasonably well in a couple months. Cyrillic is very easy to pick up. Many people speak English, especially younger generations.
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My entry would be Bangkok. I would get tired of the "farang" treatment that was so obvious when I visited for a couple weeks. I got the feeling that I was just a big dollar sign walking around many parts of town and it's so sleazy and/or touristy in some spots. Dealing with drunk tourists and sex tourists on a daily basis would also destroy what little faith I have left in humanity.
I may be able to handle Chiang Mai or Koh Samui but Bangkok is too much.
Ugh I hated Bangkok and yeah if you are white, you are like a walking ATM, very annoying.
You have obviously never seen The Warriors, a documentary that accurately describes the conditions leading to NYC's crime problem.
For a more contemporary view of conditions on the ground right now, I suggest the pulls-no-punches documentary, Escape From New York.
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