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The media sensationalized the Crimean conflict and made it something that it was not. It was a fault of the media for not accurately reporting the reality of the situation. I dont entirely support the way it was done, but the media made it sound like it was Darfur or Srebrenica ffs
Colombia has improved a lot, and it keeps improving. I think the rate should decline even more with the demilitarization of FARC, as troublesome as the whole process is. The rate is still very ugly (24 per 100k), but a million times better than before. Hate to be cliche, but a lot of it is gang related, so if you're visiting, this is the sort of violence that won't affect you. As opposed to terrorist violence, which mostly targets places with a lot of tourists
One thing I like about these countries, is that all have plenty of cities to choose from besides their capitals or largest cities. Indonesia has 10 cities over a million, Colombia 6, S. Africa & Ukraine 5 and Egypt 2. For example here are the 5th, 10th & 15th largest cities of each country...
With the varying urban conglomerations of South Africa, it's hard to separate cities. Many townships merge with others such as Soweto-Johannesburg-Tembisa-Benoni-Springs-Vereeniging etc. Therefore for me the 12th independent city is Newcastle, despite it officially being 15th.
Although Mariupol is Ukraine's 10th biggest city, it's a real dump! So is Ukraine's 9th city, Mykolaiv and this has really backfired because Ukraine's 8th city looks quite bad also!
What's up with Eastern Ukraine?!? I've decided to showcase Ukraine's beautiful 7th city instead...
Ok this is also backfiring a little bit, Egypt's 5th city, Al Mahallah al Kubra, looks like a bit of a dump too! I'll show Egypt's 6th city Luxor instead...
Edit.. To be fair I think South Africa and Colombia trump the other countries when it comes to cities....when looking at images, a lot of Indonesian cities disappoint, many don't even look like they have the population they do. Many Eastern Ukrainian cities look awful and so do many Egyptian ones, which is why I had to change the positions from 5th, 10th & 15th, which was what I initially set out to do, and instead look for other cities that had some saving grace. Something I didn't have to do with the S.African or Colombian cities as almost all cities no matter what their ranking, had something decent to show.
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Ukraine and Egypt are not safe right now. There is too much political instability.
Meh, you can still carve out yourself a decent life in Kiev or Alexandria. Unless you're gay that is and want to enjoy the privileges of more liberal countries.
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