(03-12-2022, 04:06 AM)konsta Wrote: Despite all of the cons of Mexico and the shitholes I've been to there, it's a beautiful country with sentimental, good people, with some of the best food in the world. Mexicans are friendly and adorable. They know how to make the best out of life and stay happy with what they have. It's just sad they're living in that reality, in their world, it's different than ours.

Just have some street smarts and don't get screwed over, because being gulliable and naive will fuck you up. All I can say is if they say it's 100 pesos or 200 pesos on the streets, they're ripping you off. 400+ pesos, they're disrespecting your intelligence. Also, be careful and extremely vigiliant at nights and don't take any cab, I heard of taxi drivers taking you to the middle of nowhere and ask for this amount of money or you're being dropped there. To be safe, get a car. To sum it up, imagine Mexico was Glasgow having a large tropical country.

(03-12-2022, 06:25 AM)MasterNoda Wrote: There is a lot to improve here for sure, and our government system is woefully inefficient and not nearly progressive enough. Still, it is no where near what you see in actual developing countries, the real third world countries.

Every country has its cons. The British seem keen on keeping a bunch of geezers in office that weren't even elected, on top of Brexit being an absolute disaster from all angles, with politics slipping further more regressive every day. Germany tries to paint itself as kings of being green, while shutting down all nuclear power plants and trying their best to keep getting Putin's juicy oil. France.

Not saying America is better. Generally I would prefer to live in Germany or Britain, at least for a time. I'd like to get a comparison myself of how living in places other than America would generally be. Do keep in mind, America is like 50 different countries at times. State laws vary so much, that something legal in one state could be a federal crime in the neighboring state. Beauty is, you can choose to live wherever you please. If I wanted to live in a regressive shithole like Alabama, I could. If I wanted to live a more leftist lifestyle, states like Washington are very liberal.

If your English, imagine someone thinking Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland are filled with identical people and identical lifestyles. America is a big country, so large that the world generally only sees the extremes.

(03-12-2022, 09:21 AM)Marty Wrote:

(03-12-2022, 04:06 AM)konsta Wrote: Despite all of the cons of Mexico and the shitholes I've been to there, it's a beautiful country with sentimental, good people, with some of the best food in the world. Mexicans are friendly and adorable. They know how to make the best out of life and stay happy with what they have. It's just sad they're living in that reality, in their world, it's different than ours.

Just have some street smarts and don't get screwed over, because being gulliable and naive will fuck you up. All I can say is if they say it's 100 pesos or 200 pesos on the streets, they're ripping you off. 400+ pesos, they're disrespecting your intelligence. Also, be careful and extremely vigiliant at nights and don't take any cab, I heard of taxi drivers taking you to the middle of nowhere and ask for this amount of money or you're being dropped there. To be safe, get a car. To sum it up, imagine Mexico was Glasgow having a large tropical country.

Loving the Glasgow references. I've lived in the roughest areas of Glasgow.

I have a theory that Glaswegians could take on anyone.

Anyway listen, are you more likely to get shot by a toddler in the USofA than you are by a criminal in Mexico ?

(03-12-2022, 09:24 AM)Marty Wrote:

(03-12-2022, 06:25 AM)MasterNoda Wrote: There is a lot to improve here for sure, and our government system is woefully inefficient and not nearly progressive enough. Still, it is no where near what you see in actual developing countries, the real third world countries.

Every country has its cons. The British seem keen on keeping a bunch of geezers in office that weren't even elected, on top of Brexit being an absolute disaster from all angles, with politics slipping further more regressive every day. Germany tries to paint itself as kings of being green, while shutting down all nuclear power plants and trying their best to keep getting Putin's juicy oil. France.

Not saying America is better. Generally I would prefer to live in Germany or Britain, at least for a time. I'd like to get a comparison myself of how living in places other than America would generally be. Do keep in mind, America is like 50 different countries at times. State laws vary so much, that something legal in one state could be a federal crime in the neighboring state. Beauty is, you can choose to live wherever you please. If I wanted to live in a regressive shithole like Alabama, I could. If I wanted to live a more leftist lifestyle, states like Washington are very liberal.

If your English, imagine someone thinking Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland are filled with identical people and identical lifestyles. America is a big country, so large that the world generally only sees the extremes.

I agree, abolish the house of lords. Brexit was a farce.

But there is no denying your political system breeds poverty and squalor

The American dream is extreme capitalism. Literally everything is about making profit. Schools, hospitals, insurance, politics. 

If you can pay, you'll be fine. If you can't then you'll likely die.