Usually the people in low income/developing countries that engage in student exchange programs are upper middle class and beyond and have lives no much different from their peers in developed western societies.

People in western societies tend to ignore that developing countries are not merelly poorer but also generally marked by extreme wealth and income inequality. The rich and the upper middle class for all practical effects live like the citizens of developed countries, it is just that there are less of them compared to the general population.

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narrator 3 days ago | parent [-]

Dhaka, Bangladesh, it's not a nice place to live no matter how much money you have compared to developed countries.

	▲	elzbardico 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Even Bangladesh have huge gated communities (almost closed city districts, with office buildings and commerce besides residences) that are orders of magnitude that do a really good job of isolating someone from the general dystopian chaos of the city.