Originally posted by chithappensWell duh...
It's all jungles and lions and elephants and natives!
Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
Oh, I see, since is not your gag is a blank statement. When it's your gags it isn't...got it!Okay, I never been to Iraq or Zimbawe or Congo... So...it's fine! 😄
Oh, fair enough, just a little joke about the smelly french. I mistook your statements as serious. My bad.
Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
England: shit weather, expensive, crap public transport, ignorant people, boring food, limited social culture.
I'm inclined to agree in many ways.
I love a lot of the history and some of the places within decent travelling or walking distance are amazing to one degree or another. Even the more rugged, dirty areas hold a certain aura, but in general, that doesn't cut it.
People here are intolerable, the general public are intolerable (Though I suppose you could argue that anywhere). That's mostly what I hate about this country, the people and their view of it, and how they'd represent it.
That said, that's just a really annoying, infuriating and at times unpleasant country to live in.
I would rather live in London than Basra.
-AC
Originally posted by chithappens
You know I was thinking that while reading.What the hell do you guys know about Africa anyway?
I once drove (okay, was driven) through the streets of Nairobi and got to see some of the things tourists are supposed to be steered away from. Going around a national capital and seeing burning piles of garbage and eight foot walls with impeded pieces of broken glass around churches and hotels is an unfortunate way to gain perspective.
I spent a few days in a Massai village. It was an infinitely nicer place to stay.
Later on I visited a few of the tourist trap places. Frankly it's disturbing to sit in a restaurant surrounded by white people (they "forgot" to serve our guide, who was black and from Africa) and look at the city lights.
That's only my experience in Kenya, however, and I don't know how much of it applies to the rest of Africa.
UK is the worst place to live, they have a free national health service here which will do there best to ensure you live past 60 - below the poverty line paying 25% of your annual salary to taxes that get spent on things you don't agree to.
America comes next because they have the smartest most advanced technology in the world - and are indeed (with an iron fist) the world leaders..but they still cant connect the dots between..
Gun crime ... and ... Selling Bullets at Walmart.
I don't really know where the worst place to live is, practically everywhere has something very annoying about it. I don't like America because of the laws, the flagrant use of ignorant stereotypes and the mindless consumerism. I don't like living in Britain either, sometimes it's alright, but at other times a lot of things really do get to me. I suppose if I had to choose anywhere not to live it'd be the Congo.