"Detroit In 1882 And 2017"
"The Ponds, A Suburb In Sydney. Packed In Like Sardines"
"The City Of Belem Is Tearing Down A Forest Park To Build A Highway For The United Nations Climate Change Conference"
"Chongqing, China"
"Hong Kong's Incredibly Dense And Soulless Buildings"
"Planned Towns Built For Forcibly Relocated Tibetan Families In Markham, Tibet By The CCP"
"I’m In Chongqing At The Moment…"
"Spaghetti Junction In Kl, Malaysia"
"Hong Kong Apartments"
"One Of My Favorite Pictures Of Macau. Hotel Grand Lisboa In The Background"
"Cairo, Egypt"
"Main And Delaware Street, Kansas City"
"Jalousie Neighborhood In Port-Au-Prince, Haiti"
"Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Urban Car Centric Nightmare"
"China"
"Once The Pride Of India Now Left In Shambles , Kolkata West Bengal High Solid Waste And Air Pollution"
"Amazon Data Centers Under Construction Near Homes In Stone Ridge, Virginia"
"Cape Town, South Africa. One Of The Richest Cities On The Continent"
"Us Cities Were Built For Cars" (Downtown Cincinnati, 1890 vs. 2023)
"Night In Tokyo, Japan"
"Azerbaijan Style Balcony"
"A Street In Mansoura, Egypt, With All The Signs For Doctors’ Offices"
"Seoul, South Korea"
"We Waste So Much Land In America"
"Thick Yellow Smog In Busan, Korea"
""Beautiful" Berlin During Communist Times"
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America (and by that I mean the USA in this case, which I assume you did too) is every bit as much a sh#t hole country as the ones you mention. Just in very different ways.
So why visit then?
As for those calling the USA a sh#thole I don't recall 20+ million illegals crossing third world borders to get into those counties.
Don't confuse 'better' and 'good'
Just because you live in a '50 story apartment building' or are 'packed like sardines' does not mean that you cannot add a bit of color or a potted plant to make it better. The less you rely on government to do things for you the better off you will be in the long run. Government might say that they will do this, that, or the other thing to get your vote, but once they do then something else will come along that they think needs their attention first (lobbyists, donors, special interest groups, and so on).
Take care of yourselves and your neighborhoods first and you will be better off.
I don't actually believe you take care of cleaning up anything. You moved into a wealthy clean neighborhood and all you do is sweep and take out your trash.
Terrible neighborhoods are always trash because of the people and the government. There are too many regs and laws against it. A guy built steps for a hill in a park. The city tore it out and fined him.