Anons who have been traveling for a long time, what cities have decayed the worst over the years in your experience?
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Anons who have been traveling for a long time, what cities have decayed the worst over the years in your experience?
Mariupol
Bakhmut's not what it used to be
Portland Oregon. The first time I went was 15 years ago, it was a totally different city. Downtown was a cool, safe place to walk around. It's a fricking post apocalyptic ghost town now. 50 percent of the businesses are boarded up and abandoned. homeless people line the streets. The parks are filled with junkies. I would never visit again after my last trip.
Vancouver too. Ive never been but all of canada looks like a shithole from when I was there as a kid. Drugs and libtardation does a fricking number. Im voting hawaii as least changed. Seriously go there before they frick that up too.
Hawaii, especially Honolulu has gone down hill. It had been going downhill for a while, but covid was the nail in the coffin.
>t. Guy who live on Oahu from 2014-2022
North shore is still pretty based tbh
Sure, but where are you gonna work? You gonna do that 2 hour commute into town? Sometimes I'd deal with a fricking hour drive from Hawaii Kai to Manoa. No way I'd be willing to do North Shore to town.
Nice blurry shitass photo
Lmao you homosexuals always say this about Portland and Seattle and it's just not true. There are more hobos now than 2008 but it's not close to hyperbole posted on SighSee
Yeah nah frick off. I live in Beaverton and the pearl district looks like some shit out of blade runner.
Lmao I lived in the Pearl from 2014-2018 and visit regularly for work still. It's fricking fine. Just dirty. Grow up.
I grew up in portland. the city is significantly worse than what it used to be like.
how can you say that when walmart is closing stores in portland?
literally cannot operate there because its a third world country
moronic take. The wal marts are closing because why would you go out and deal with poor people when suburbanites can just get groceries and shit off Amazon now.
This.
I was there (and up to Vancouver) in the late 80's and it was damn near paradise. It's been so bad in my visits there over the past few years I really don't want to go back...even my college friends that were 'cool' back then are unbearable. The people there really ruined it, despite being a beautiful landscape. Plus the meme that Chinese ruined Vancouver is unfortunately pretty true.
Based. I went on a road trip and portland was the first city I’ve genuinely felt like I was going to get shot in. So many homeless and junkies. And not the chill don’t bother you kind the rob you and kill you so they can smoke crack kind. I Remeber waiting at the shitty light rail stop and a homeless guy walking out of a camp nearby with a glock in his pants hella eyeing me walking closer reaching in his pants. Frick that place. I’ve been to third world shitholes nicer than there
West coast homeless are something else, they are all feral and aggressive. In nyc most are just funny schizos with the occasional one being violent
Meth is a lot more commonplace on the west coast which makes the hobos violent and unpredictable. Some homosexual nodding off on fentanyl isn't exactly a threat to anyone but themselves and crack use has fallen off among east coast junkies. It's still around to be sure, but it's nowhere near as prevalent as it used to be in the bad old 80s when cities up and down the eastern seaboard had their streets lined with jittery, hopped up nig nogs. Now in those same places all you see are half-dead white junkies slumped over with the occasional black or beaner dealer circling them like vultures
New Orleans. It was never great, but I was there this year for a wedding and it was dire.
7th highest murder rate in the WORLD
Paris, back in the 90s, was like it is now minus the throngs of idiots around every attraction. The hawkers were still pushy and annoying but they were far fewer of them. Locals were still haughty but even an attempt to speak French was enough for them.
Basically all the shit stuff you have to deal with now just wasn’t a problem. Still coasting on that reputation a quarter century later.
t. oldgay
Paris in the 90s was amazing:
1. The small amount of blacks and arabs it had were mostly business owners and well behaved, nothing like the Black folk/sand Black folk ruining the city now.
2. Tourists were a lot less moronic. A lot less pick pockets and scammers around tourist attractions. A lot less chinese tourists.
3. Local folks were much more relaxed and were more open to foreigners.
4. The city was better maintained, streets weren't as dirty. Subway/Bus was actually fine.
5. Restaurants/pubs actually served fresh food, now they all serve the same sous-vide microwaved garbage they buy from the same superstore for businesses. The only way to eat fresh food/real french food in Paris is to go to the high end restaurants and pay a fortune.
6. Night life was the GOAT there, you could meet absolutely anyone from international drug dealers to movie actresses to sons of african dictators, shit was wild and the cops seemed to look the other way, which explains why cocaine was flowing in Paris night clubs at that time compared to now.
Now the city is a run down shithole with woketards in every corner and Black folk/arabs everywhere. You can't even wear a nice watch at Place Vendôme without getting robbed by some refugee. Sad to see what wokism did to that city.
You were not in Paris in the 90s. You were not even born. Low quality /misc/turd larp.
I mean beneath the edgelord veneer it’s reasonably accurate. Paris wasn’t always a disappointing visit.
Paris has always had lots of immigrants and trash for centuries now. Him saying that Paris in the 90s had a "small amount of blacks and arabs" is a dead giveaway he's never seen it himself and is just going on /misc/ virgin tirades. I actually have been to Paris in the 90s and it was full of arabs and gypsies already then.
I was, twice actually. Place wasn't bad back then because every troublemaker stayed in the citées (ghettos) which were still livable back then. Now they actually roam downtown and will mug your ass at Place Vendôme if you wear a nice watch.
Paris was more shitty in the 90s, larper. Also I've never had any issues at Place Vendôme, not even in the 90s.
You're a massive moron living on planet mars if you think Paris was worse in the 90s than today lmao. Go troll in pol or something
>4. The city was better maintained
In the 90s? What?
>The small amount of blacks and arabs it had were mostly business owners and well behaved, nothing like the Black folk/sand Black folk ruining the city now
Why do i have a hard time believing that
You're totally right. I think he meant in the city itself. The banlieue has been shit for a long time. But there's literally no reason why any foreigner would want to go there.
>5. Restaurants/pubs actually served fresh food, now they all serve the same sous-vide microwaved garbage they buy from the same superstore for businesses. The only way to eat fresh food/real french food in Paris is to go to the high end restaurants and pay a fortune.
That is not even remotely true. Do you exclusively dine in tourist traps or what? If you can't find a decent place to eat you have shit for brains. Also I've never heard anyone say the city was better maintained in the 90's... honestly I think you're just LARPing.
He's obviously larping but doubled down on it.
There's some homosexual or roastie here who spazzes out whenever you have anything right-wing to say about France. Anyone who's actually been to the country outside of a bubble in the centre-ville parisien knows how much the country has deteriorated.
This person accuses me of larping and I'm actually fluent in French. lol, lmao even
I did a 2 week roadtrip through southern France in September 2019 with my gf. We did Nimes, Arles, Aix, Cassis, Gordes, Avignon, Roussillon and Orange. The food was fricking amazing, but I marked a lot of restaurants on google maps before the trip. French food and wine is the real deal. We never had a single problem on the entire roadtrip. But one day when we were in Arles on a weekend, it was a market day. Hundreds of Muslims flooded the city from Marseille. It looked like a different country. At the end up the day, they packed up their junk, and they were all gone. You couldn't pay me to go to Marseille or Paris after seeing that market.
This guy keeps larping as having been to Paris or being born before the 90s. He says so many obviously false things and whenever he gets caught lying he just doubles down on the lying.
He wasn't lying and you didn't provide one single argument to counter him other than calling him a larper like the homosexual mutt cuck you are lmao.
Paris is indeed a dumpster outside of the city center, the subway is basically somalia and yet you can't comprehend the basic concept of mass immigration because you're surrounded by Black folk and women worshipping them in your left-wing american shithole of a city so to you it's absolutely normal.
Just go and see for yourself instead of being a sperg in here.
I heard lyon and dijon were the absolute worst lol
I actually grew up in Paris in the 90s.
Many neighborhoods got gentrified, like the one in which I am living (18th). Real estate has gotten so crazy expensive over here that it drove away shitskins and poorgays. The ones remaining are those living in HLM (welfare housing), and while they do bring the quality of life down, they are nowhere as bad as those living in the banlieues, e.g. no chimping out.
That doesn't mean that there are less shitskins; it simply means that they mainly come to work/shop in some neighborhoods in which they are outnumbering everything else (Château d'Eau, Château Rouge, Simplon...) before fricking back off to their banlieue with public transport.
Of course, the consequence of expensive real estate is that shitskins are now settling in middle-sized cities. Middle-sized cities have deteriorated a LOT in less than 10 years.
I went to Nantes in 2009 and thought it was a great, safe, overwhelmingly white city. My non-French mother was surprised by how quaint it was.
Now it's a proper shithole, possibly worse than Paris' worse neighborhoods.
I used to go to middle-sized cities to escape from shitskins, now they are everywhere.
It feels cleaner and a bit safer than before over here, but not the same can be said for every neighborhood. For example, 19th and 20th are still shitholes but they are on on the process of gentrification as well.
However, while there are less apparent crimes, the few crimes left are much more violent.
It's been discussed many times, but the Las Vegas strip. Ever since they legalized weed, it's a fricking nightmare. I used to visit 3 times a year, but I've cut down to once a year now and I avoid the strip. The last straw for me was last year when a homeless person walked up to me and grabbed my friendly Labrador by the scruff of his neck and tried to hurt him for no reason. It happened in the middle of the day with a crowd around. On that same trip, I saw a black guy break into a work truck at Mandalay Bay, and I watched someone get pickpocketed on the bridge at the MGM. It's all fueled by the addicts that flock to vegas.
i hear black people are ruining las vegas?
Avoid the Rio then. When I was there it literally looked like a fricking players and pimps convention was going on with all the Steve Harvey suits and crappy exotic leather shoes
10 years ago the Rio was the best deal in Vegas. You could get legit suite for $150 night. The Voo Doo Lounge on top of the Rio was one of the coolest bars in vegas. And the Seafood Buffet was one of the best places to eat in the city. But the Rio is fricking ghost town now. Half the casino is abandoned. The only people you'll see are blacks from the ghetto because the rooms are like $50/night. The Rio is as bad as Circus Circus now.
Better than it used to be. It was the freaknic of the west during covid. Business travelers are coming back but they got work to do on clearing out the crazies from the strip.
You're all so fricking stupid and parrot the same shit. Vegas is the same as it ever was. I'm older than all of you and started going in the late 90s. More hobos than 25 years ago but it's the fricking same otherwise, just more expensive and corporatized.
You're wrong. Las Vegas has gotten SIGNIFICANTLY more violent in the past few years and the murder statistics support it. In 2019, Vegas had 89 murders. In 2021, that number was 158 and then 146 in 2022. They're already at 90 murders for 2023 and we're only 4 months in to the year.
https://www.lvmpd.com/en-us/Pages/Statistics.aspx
Sounds like a cherry picked stat by a midwit
>murder rate
>cherry picked stat
bruh, it's the only one that can't be fricked with for political reasons
Sounds like cope from an absolute fricking moron
>They're already at 90 murders for 2023 and we're only 4 months in to the year.
This says 35 murders in 2023
Lmao you fricking moron it's 35 murders year to date
>Vegas is the same as it ever was
>Just more hobos
>More expensive
>And corporatized
So, not the same.
I saw this exact thing happen, expect it was a few rats climbing around on a bunch of rotisserie chickens in Cebu
Hong Kong. Completely different, an unbelievable thing to witness it going from pre-handover to now. It is truly staggering.
Christchurch NZ. The quake, enough said.
PNW USA talk about a victim of its own success.
Chicago has declined a lot, which is probably the most heartbreaking of any these (except HK, since there's zero chance HK ever comes back and at least Chicago has a chance) since it was just such a fun town in the nineties, aughts and even up until like 2015-ish. But its like somebody cut out its soul. Real sad.
I was just in Chicago, and I couldn't find a goddamn thing to do. What is there even to do in Chicago on a good day? Get a slice of pizza and get out? Honest question. In NYC I could do that as well as see central park, times square, the museums...
You're an absolute moron if you can't find something to do in Chicago. The city is huge and has all kinds of museums, concert venues, pro sports, and free shit like cloud gate.
The issue with American cities is that they are absolutely not worth the price tag, are culturally uninteresting, feel soulless and corporatized, and are terrible places for young men to meet women.
you're just a homosexual. thats the problem. you're a homosexual with a shitty attitude
Boomer mentality. There may be truth to what you're saying, but there isn't smoke without fire.
This website wouldn't be as influential as it is, and America wouldn't be seeing such a spike in violence of all kinds if millions of men all across the country didn't have legitimate grievances.
Look at this map and tell me dating isn't objectively worse than in 1990, or whenever the frick you were young enough to still be playing the field.
Dios mio….
glasgow. i am from glasgow but left for a long time. it is grim.
I thought Glasgow had improved a lot. Has it got significantly worse again?
Gentrification and its consequences has been a disaster for Glasgow. I mean if you’re one of the Londoners who moved up and started a sourdough bakery it’s fab but it’s created a spike in prices and turned most of the under 50 locals into rent cattle. As a result the soul of the city is being obliterated and it is just turning into a less poncy Edinburgh without a Royal Mile.
It’s a terrible shame. Glasgow was famously wretched as it deindustrialised but it had turned into something special. And now you get people complaining about flat whites not using oat milk.
I visited for the first time ever last summer. Honestly, compared to most other cities in the UK worth visiting, Glasgow didn't seem gay/gentrified at all to me as an outsider. I really liked the place to be honest. Shame about the rent situation though.
You were there at an inflection point. Glaswegians had long been quite insular and the culture that developed around that is what made Glasgow, Glasgow. Enter a large number of people who have done hot yoga and know what quinoa is. Globohomosexual ruining everything, again
From 1990 to 2008 it improved dramatically, it has been sliding down ever since
Ah, shame
new york's not bad as far as american cities go but it's gotten way shittier post-covid
so many parts of the city that used to have active nightlife til 4am pre-covid are STILL totally dead by midnight
gone are the days of hanging out with friends in bars and going to a sit down restaurant for jap food at 1am
America in general is just completely dead socially now. I blame white women and zoomers. Everyone is passive aggressive and antisocial now and the women situation is somehow even worse than before Covid, truly apocalyptic. Zoomer b***hes are so unsexy even if they’re good looking it’s unreal.
Anon I live in nj (right next to nyc and go there every weekend) and let me tell you nyc and I feel like america in general is just a wasteland as a 20s something man. Every bar and club is an absolute sausage fest and literally no one wants to branch off their groups they come with from their high school, college, or the packs of pajeets or Asians that know each other through whatever. Zoomer women are so unbearable and they have so many simps and orbiters and chads in speed dial it is not worth it all to pursue. Even in college I felt this way despite getting lucky a few times. Everyone in america is just so hyper ironic and wants to one up the other person. I feel this whole country is just stuck in high school and their entire insecurities and complexes stem from it.
>muh flyover based southern state
I’ve travelled all over and this mentality is true in 4 corners of the country. Americans smile at you in public and make moronic small talk but if you ever ask them to hang out or to go out of their way it’s radio silence
I mean, it's not completely different in other places around the world. But I'm so sorry. I got the same exact impression of the USA, and so I'm glad I only visit when I want to. I have some "friends" there, but I also have one actual friend there, and he feels so lonely. I hope you guys soon find nicer circles irl.
I posted the post you replied to and everything in your post is true 100%. Thanks for including the flyover part in there too, so sick of /misc/gay types. I’m considering getting a router level VPN and leaving the country when my lease is up and just not telling my employer about it because I can’t take the social and especially woman situation anymore. I had the same experience as you with girls how difficult it is now. The funny part is is when I traveled to Europe every stereotype about the women/social situation turned out to be 100% true. I laugh at Euros complaining to burgers about muh feminist Spanish women, they have no idea how good they have it.
>I had the same experience as you with girls how difficult it is now. The funny part is is when I traveled to Europe every stereotype about the women/social situation turned out to be 100% true. I laugh at Euros complaining to burgers about muh feminist Spanish women, they have no idea how good they have it.
Most of those complaints are about how they are not trad wife material or whatever. I am sure they are just whorish and annoying but American woman take the cake for hypergamy on steroids. In places like Spain there is still a component of a social and outgoing society and most people are friendly by default. And bars and clubs have good ratios because of non cucked 21+ laws that literally halve the amount of women in any establishment and the ones that go are jaded roasties that are already 10 chad dicks deep from the frat parties they went to who want to get out wif da gurls and just swat away any man that approaches them unless he is Chad. Plus no legalized prostitution turns every man here into a pussy starved giga simp who bases their entire worth on how much pussy they slay, and as a result every gasses up fat chicks and pussy hyperinflation commences.
I graduated during COVID and do not talk to a single person from college, and mostly see my high school friends. Its so bleak, I like them but all of the ones who are not turbo normies are leaving and the ones who stay are the ones stuck in middle school.
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>Every bar and club is an absolute sausage fest and literally no one wants to branch off their groups they come with from their high school, college, or the packs of pajeets or Asians that know each other through whatever
That's not a genZ thing. I'm 37 and only really hang out with friends from high school
I am also an older zoomer and can't even imagine how it is for younger ones in high school, if you didn't have a friend group in high school around here you are fricked.
I’m tired of white women being used as a safe catch all for terrible behavior of all westernized women (actually most well off modern women). Don’t get me wrong jessica’s take the cake for the worst behaved but there is no difference in my eyes between an Asian American and a white snow bunny, if anything alor of brown and ethnic chicks develop weird complexes about it and it seeps into everything. Once they are in college and thrown around they feel shame about it and turn into all men are trash feminists and white men are evil yet solely get with white chad lites (aren’t attractive enough for chads)
I didn’t get a chance to respond right away and somewhat agree with you, but I do think theres value in it because this is the only way you can criticize female behavior at all. Also I saw it on SighSee because I hate /misc/gay paganlarper and tradcuck simps. Also I will say, I can’t even get my dick hard for white women anymore IRL tbh kek
Say it on SighSee*
Those memes of the girls at the gyms are real. They wear those really tight pants and bend over and act like everyone is a creep that is within proximity or even glance at them.
You're just old. Obviously 18-25 year olds won't hang out with a guy in their forties bar a few exceptions, like being very successful and still looking young and attractive.
Dude, I'm only 26 and I get the exact same impression. Half the people my age have little mutts with their ugly wives, and they're not out past 1am anymore. It's looking like I'll have to move back to the city soon if I still want a life.
>many parts of the city that used to have active nightlife til 4am pre-covid are STILL totally dead by midnight
what the hell are you talking about lol. Confirmed for not living here because I go out late all the time.
which cities have IMPROVED the most?
Shenzhen? Bangkok? Amsterdam?
It pains me to say this but but London does look cleaner and feel safer than it did in the 1990s. I still prefer 1990s London.
>city now non british and filled with stabbing and worse
>somehow better than in the 90s
lmao no
>city now non british and filled with stabbing
This is your brain on /misc/
When has anything ever gotten better in our lifetimes? lmao
>inb4 technology
Everywhere on the Balkans basically. Just the fact that they haven't been shooting for a while helped. Don't get me wrong, Sarajevo ain't no Tokyo, but it has improved compared to 20 years ago.
"Would you care for rat, at all? No? Right, just the biscuits then..."
A different kind of decay to most in this thread, but a lot of Japanese cities under 200,000 people are quite simply dying. I went to a few towns in Chugoku chihou and Shikoku in the early 2000s and passing through them again recently, seeing how nothing much has changed besides getting rustier was pretty depressing. You can look at their city hall data and most show continuous population declines for 30 years. All the young go to the metropolises, so there are entire streets where nearly every store is shuttered, buildings are falling into disrepair, and no capital is coming in, which makes more people leave, resulting in a death spiral.
Actually this perfectly captures what’s gone on (or rather hasn’t) in many small to mid size U.K. towns. Although the turning point was 2008, when the supply of fake capital evaporated. These places have had no new gubmint money since and half the youth leave once they finish school, never to return.
My hometown is one. Went back for a funeral for the first time in many years. Nothing has improved. Well there’s now a Belgian cafe selling imported bottled beer to the lawyer and doctor class. That’s it. Big shopping centre is half empty; couple of small new estates that are utterly soulless; school buildings I last went in around 2001 still there only with fewer kids in them. Even the cycle paths have gotten overgrown and abandoned.
No, you're just moronic and got zero pallet like the average muttoid of your kind. Industrial grade food in french restaurants actually was a national scandal that made the news not long ago in France because the notion of "homemade" wasn't even covered by law there. As a result people reheating microwavable garbage and sprinkling some parsley on top to serve it to dumb frick american tourists like you was and is still common practice.
You're not eating "fresh" food in Paris unless you're going to the best known restaurants. The average bistro/small mom and pops restaurant will just sell you shit.
Here's an example even though it's in french.
But keep eating the french goyslop and calling people larpers lmao
This is completely true, amazing how many people here have no idea
>Plus no legalized prostitution turns every man here into a pussy starved giga simp who bases their entire worth on how much pussy they slay, and as a result every gasses up fat chicks and pussy hyperinflation commences.
Chicago and New York have had similar paths
>violent shitholes through the 1990s
>improved in the 2000s and 2010s
>back to being shitholes this decade
Albuquerque has declined more than any other city in the US and I have been to every state in the country. It used to be a halfway decent place decades ago (years before Breaking Bad) and now has the highest overall crime rate of any city
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate
Manhattan was fricking disgusting all around but central park was nice.
I'm from Los Angeles and visited Manhattan a couple years ago right before COVID, didn't seem too bad, but maybe my city has set the bar extremely fricking low lol
Don't you have nice beaches?
Seattle San Francisco, Portland, LA, many such cases. Liberals are worse than the black death
Limerick
Such a shame, used to be a beautiful destination
Limerick city was nice once? At least Castletroy is fairly livable.
How's Ireland in general? All the people I know that have gone lately seem to love it, but I know for a fact that all they did was get fricked up
If you want to go on the piss in your great grandpappy’s homeland Ireland is a great visit. Everyone happy to take your money and you’ll have a whale of a time
If you want to actually do stuff: Dublin has been completely pozzed by globohomosexual but is still worth a day or two with some interesting sights and history (and, yes, have a Guinness at the factory if you must)
Rural Ireland is still a damp and depressing place to actually live in, often with traveller problems, but places like the Atlantic coast are a nice summer trip
Nicer now than it ever was, if that is saying anything. Knackers ran that place in the 90s and it’s still called Stab City for that reason.
>Knackers ran that place in the 90s
bullshit. Those dogs ran with tucked tails then. There's a whole new generation of rats that've come out to play that you must be missing
>lower right corner
>the baz
Toronto.
First gentrification made it increasingly gay and boring. They got rid of a lot of the fun stuff (i.e. strip clubs and street hookers who weren't old crackheads) and replaced them with condos, airbnbs, and pretentious night clubbers popping bottles to impress stuck-up hoes.
Second COVID came and government shut down everything. Because of this housing prices skyrocketed due to real estate speculation, inflation surged, a lot of businesses closed permanently, making the city look like one of those decaying burn out rust belt towns, and there's angry homeless dudes everywhere stabbing people to death.
Christchurch NZ was Portland before Portland. The earthquake epicenter was leterelly in the city centre. A city centre peppered with small alleys and hidden bars. The quake not only affected buildings but ruined the city's psyche
I can cite two very different examples. First is my home city of San Francisco, which over the decades I lived there became both seedier and more sterile. Everyone knows about the endemic homelessness problem, which honestly didn’t get that much worse over the years until first meth and then COVID and its associated economic decline encouraged some noticeable spikes in property crime. Still an embarrassment, but also still not as bad as its reputation in most of the city. Worse in my opinion was the big tech bloat and its impact on an already completely fricked-up housing market. A city that is still really uncommonly beautiful in terms of climate, architecture, and geography became too expensive for anybody but a multitude of boring tech kids who could afford million-dollar-plus condos but put nothing at all worthwhile into local culture, or even into the local economy—they only shop online, so local retail suffered. They don’t go to concerts or dive bars or cultural offerings, so creative things to do and see started to wither. And the artsy weirdos and freaks and punks and others who kept the city really vibrant and interesting despite all its flaws just about all got priced out. So now you’ve got Whole Foods with armed guards, a diminishing number of good places to eat, no local bands or places for them to gig, and fewer and fewer local businesses worth supporting. The underclasses who can’t afford to get out get squeezed harder and harder, and the rich whine louder and louder about it. There are tiny remnants of the good parts of SF all over the place, and I think it’s still worth visiting, but I wasn’t that sad when I finally left.
On the other side of the world, when I first visited Vientiane, Laos, in 1995, it was a sleepy little nowhere of a village that still didn’t really let hippies in (most nationalities still had to get visas in advance, and they didn’t issue that many). There were as many bicycles on the streets as private cars…
>(Cont’d)
You could walk down the crumbling colonial sidewalks (now jammed with motorcycles) and be the only foreigner visible, perhaps apart from an aid worker or diplomat or exchange student from some developing country that was still trying to be Marxist. I obviously can’t condemn economic development, as I’m sure it has made some lives better, but nobody benefits from letting white people with dreadlocks get drunk in the morning. The city is overbuilt, crowded, and increasingly ugly, with an infrastructure that can’t handle its current levels of traffic.