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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
I have a friend that lived in a one room block apartment in Kiev ...
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Lol. I anticipated something like that. Ukraine is the poorest European country. You guys think Eastern Europe is poor, so imagine that Ukraine is much more poor, average salary is like 3-5 TIMES smaller than in "poor" Eastern Europe. And maybe 10 TIMES than in some of your named cities. So no surprise there are extremely poor looking blocks there..
It is still NOTHING like ghettos in Detroit or Atlanta, or all of the cities you mentioned.
Your friend lived there and is ok, now imagine him WALKING in the ghetto of Detroit, let alone living... You get the huge difference now? Get the difference between actual ghetto and juts poor part of poor country?
And again, Ukraine is SUPER poor, lets take examples like Warsaw etc.
There are literally no ghettos in Eastern Europe, surely there are blocks and neighborhoods that are cheaper/run down, but you could easily walk there and not be endangered in any sense. They would have slightly higher than average crime rate, but it would be mostly visible in crime stats. While in actual ghetto in Detroit etc the danger would be visible via your own eyes.