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I think Pyongyang, while bad, is not the worst , or is not alone in that category :
- think the favelas (slums) of Rio or Port of Prince
- think the townships in Jo'Burg or Capetown
- think overcrowded third world cities like Calcutta /kalkata, Bombay, Manila , Abuja (Nigeria), Kinshasa (DRC)
-think of wasted places in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia , whre the capital (Mogadiscio) is a ghost town patrolled by warlords.
Oh! but I forgot! N Korea is part of the "Evil Empire" (as Bush put it), so of course it's the worst...
Actually...
go look up N Korea sometime. It is one country that perhaps truly deserves the "Axis of Evil" label.
*Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - It is in one of the most depressed and unsatisfied nation on Earth. Gallup indicates that 91% of Zimbabweans were dissatisfied with their standard of living last year and they're not very optimistic things will get better.
I dont know if the people of Pyongyang would be sad or not? They have no idea about how the rest of the world operates, therfore absoultley no idea about what they are missing out on. How can one be sad about missing something they dont even know exists?
So unless they are starving or being held as political prisioners (and lets face it their is loads of places in the world where that happens) why would the people in pyongyang be sad?
As for sad places I am going to have to stick with London, the number of times I heard a brit say something like, why on earth would you leave Australia to live in a place like this, was very suprising. My fellow Aussies need a few lessons in being thankfull for what the have as well however.
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I seriously wouldn't put any US city on my list of world's saddest cities...there are places overseas that make the worst ghettos in the US look like Beverly Hills...
I think that the saddest cities must be the poorest ones so i think that the first world in general has nothing to do in this discussion.
I think that in general it must be some cities in africa, however i haven't been there to tell for sure.
In Argentina, we have some places that, sadly, i think has nothing to envy to the poorest places in the world.
I've never been there, but from what I've seen, Pyonyang, North Korea has to be probably the saddest city in the world. The people seen walking around in this city actually look like robots with nothing but a blank stare on their faces. Sad and scary.
Looking in from the outside would tend to agree.Just wonder if the folk that actually live there feel the same way though?
In that i mean being so isolated and cut off from the rest of the world and fed constant propaganda it is perhaps not inconceivable that they see it another way?
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