If you had to live in a 3rd world country which would you chose? (crime rates, health)

[Frostnip]

3rd World isn't defined as "anywhere outside Western Europe and North America"

[Davy-040]

There are 4 Worlds.

some examples (only incl. countries with a population over 100 million)...


1st:
USA, Japan

2nd:
Mexico, Brazil, Russia, China

3rd:
India, Indonesia, Philippines

4th:
Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh

[Warszawa]

Originally Posted by Frostnip

I like how people keep naming 2nd World countries. No kidding it'd be comfortable enough to live in a country that's basically functional and has decent infrastructure but lags a bit economically, lol.

Yeah I dont like the term "developing" as it bunches
countries like Poland or Chile into the same group as Congo and Haiti

[Fitzrovian]

Originally Posted by GoodHombre

Seriously, I would choose Shanghai, China.

Other good options are Mexico, Thailand, and Chile.

Chile has annual per capita GDP of $27,000 on PPP basis (and probably even higher than that in the largest urban centers). How on earth is that “third world”?

[Warszawa]

Originally Posted by Fitzrovian

Chile has annual per capita GDP of $27,000 on PPP basis (and probably even higher than that in the largest urban centers). How on earth is that “third world”?

Not to mention a higher life expectancy than the US, and similar to that of Denmark and Germany

[Endoplasmic]

England ;-)

[turkeydance]

Sri Lanka

[Listener2307]

Originally Posted by greatblueheron

Bhutan.

Without a doubt.
Or Botswana, if enough people agree that it is third world.


Bhutan to learn and to apply their ingredients for "happy".
Botswana for the opportunity to spend my life learning about nature.

[Turnerbro]

Originally Posted by Sage 80

Costa Rica or Argentina

I don't think either of those are 3rd world. According to my recent poll most people on here don't think Argentina is 3rd world.

[TacoSoup]

You really should’ve included a poll, or at the very least some examples. People are gonna blur more developing nations with lesser developing nations all day long, and understandably so. Unless you’re knowledgeable about world economies it’s tough to tell many apart from what we see in the media, or even what we were taught in school for those of us over 40.

I’m gonna muck up this conversation even more and go to the South Pacific with a couple of small developing island nations. French Polynesia (Tahiti) or Fiji would suit me just fine.