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But the question is - Does most of this city look like that? Or is it just some select places?
The photos are from two Bulgarian cities - the second largest Plovdiv and the former capital Tarnovo. And no, the whole city doesn't look like this, but the same can be said for almost all large US and western European cities that also have many poor and ghetto areas. I have seen those in Paris and the US east coast (some cities in New Jersey for example). Only Scandinavian and Japanese cities plus Singapore look great everywhere you go.
There are High Income, higher middle income, middle income, lower middle income and low income countries. The notion of 2nd world is all but practically consigned to the history books. 3rd world has some relevance in today's world as a general term for non-developed nations.
One of the most prominent characteristics of Third World nations is that management of essential elements of the economy (telephones are the best example) is invariably turned over to cronies of those in power -- be it a single strongman or a clique like Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary (how's that oxymoron again ??) Party (PRI).
A comparison of phone charges between tested democracies and tinhorn regimes will confirm this.
In that case. Nice to see all those young kids. Maybe they can reverse their low birth rate.
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