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I've had very similar experiences in India. Incredibly expensive, well-furnished homes surrounded by streets filled with trash. The people living in there don't even walk outside any more, it's too hot/polluted/dirty for that. They get everything delivered to them or go for work/events in their fancy car.

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cpach 14 days ago | parent [-]

Must be incredibly boring to live like that!?

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ASalazarMX 14 days ago | parent | next [-]

Only the commute, I guess. You constantly go from wealth point to wealth point through a brief poverty scenery.

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cpach 13 days ago | parent [-]

To each his own, but I’m not sure I’m thrilled by that prospect.

	▲	spwa4 13 days ago \| parent [-]
		I've been to a lot of places and this is actually how the majority of the world looks. China looks like this. The Philippines looks like this. Turkey looks like this (though the streets are far cleaner than average for 3rd world or even 2nd world). South Africa looks like this. Congo, if you adjust your opinion of what richess is, and what poverty is, down, looks like this. You can find far, far more luxurious hotels in South Africa or the Philippines than in Switzerland or England. Some days I think the difference between 1st world and 3rd world is not so much wealth, but the division of wealth.

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ZeroTalent 14 days ago | parent | prev [-]

boring and depressing if you have any self-awareness. yet India announced they eliminated all poverty recently. I've visited in the last months. It's still the dystopia that it always was.

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prawn 14 days ago | parent [-]

I walked into a Mumbai slum 20+ years ago and recently checked on Streetview and other 360 image spots to see how it compared. Still there. How do those get categorise with regard to poverty? Or is/was the poverty-poverty the people sleeping in/around train stations?

	▲	ZeroTalent 13 days ago \| parent [-]
		The criteria for defining extreme poverty are not being adjusted properly. For example, Grab/Uber rickshaw/tuk-tuk drivers in India may technically earn over $10 a day, but many of them remain homeless because the price of food and rent has risen, and they often support a lot of their family members who have no jobs. They often sleep on their rickshaws and work more than 20 hours a day, seven days a week, relying on excessive amounts of caffeine and other substances to keep going. Many of them sleep on their motorcycles or near them on the sidewalk.