There is a thin line between poor and rich. This is especially obvious in Sao Paolo, Caracas and Mumbai, where only a street delimits the poor neighborhoods from the rich ones. The contrast is particularly shoking, since there is a huge difference between the two classes. Take a look at how people live in these countries:

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1. Sao Paolo
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2. Caracas
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caracas-poverty.jpg

3. Mumbai
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poor_neighborhood in mumbai

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Posted by phoenix | April 9th, 2008 5:21 am

FUCK? This is fake. Atleast the mumbai ones are. PROOF:

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/9751/89530264ag5.jpg
Venezuela Mumbai India



Posted by Max | April 9th, 2008 5:31 am

Good work Nancy Drew. But you have clearly never been or even seen India!



Posted by Te lo dice Pérez » Siempre hubo clases | April 9th, 2008 6:04 am

[...] Fuente [...]



Posted by liquuid | April 9th, 2008 6:07 am

The first pic of São Paulo is very near my house … I don’t reconize the second one.



Posted by SV | April 9th, 2008 6:35 am

I am from the same state where Mumbai lies. I can say this with good deal of confidence : ‘THERE IS NOT ONE BASEBALL PLAYGROUND IN MUMBAI’ !!!
All of us play cricket and NOT baseball !



Posted by Vinay Gupta | April 9th, 2008 7:07 am

There are long term solutions for the slums, at least to provide services like electricity, clean drinking water, toilets and so on.

The Hexayurt Project is an open source project that is working on designing long term solutions for poverty, to help everybody enjoy health and long life, by redesigning infrastructure that everybody can afford.



Posted by Vinay Gupta | April 9th, 2008 7:08 am

Oh, helps if I remember the web site URL

http://hexayurt.com

and you can learn more about the infrastructure here:

http://files.howtolivewiki.com/TIDES – Hexayurt Infrastructure.pdf

and if you want to understand the big picture – domestic disaster response, long term policy etc.

http://files.howtolivewiki.com/star_tides_ndu_briefing_8_apr_08/



Posted by Vinay Gupta | April 9th, 2008 7:10 am

Helps if I remember the URL:

http://hexayurt.com – all the designs, infrastructure plans and so on.



Posted by Vinay Gupta | April 9th, 2008 7:11 am

One link per comment, huh?

http://files.howtolivewiki.com/TIDES – Hexayurt Infrastructure.pdf – PDF with details on low cost infrastructure



Posted by Vinay Gupta | April 9th, 2008 7:12 am

http://files.howtolivewiki.com/star_tides_ndu_briefing_8_apr_08/ – one hour presentation on the whole infrastructure / refugees / poverty picture.



Posted by Michael | April 9th, 2008 7:57 am

In the first photo there are cars in the “Poor” neighborhood. Anyone who’s been to the 3rd world will tell you that poor people there don’t have cars or a real house with a floor. While this neighborhood is very cramped by U.S. standards, further inspection will show that there are houses/shops which are not too ratty. Having been to s. america I can tell you that 1 great thing I enjoyed is not having to take a car to do daily tasks. As the price of oil rises higher we will soon learn to value togetherness / community as suburbia becomes more and more unsustainable. In short to be close together is in some ways an asset although these pics are a bit extreme. see http://bestdocumentaries.blogspot.com/2008/04/end-of-suburbia-oil-depletion-and.html



Posted by Te | April 9th, 2008 8:16 am

Why not show rich and poor in devloped countries like the USA or France?
Why do you pick on poor nations?
Why not show what the son/daughter of a million dollar company do in their spare time versus what their parents employees do?



Posted by agnas | April 9th, 2008 8:29 am

I live in Venezuela and I can explain the Mumbai first photo discussion. The first photo displayed as Mumbai is actually a famous photo of Caracas, Venezuela. The poor area is Barrio Jose Feliz Rivas (petare) and the “rich” area is Terrazas del Avila. Actually is a medium class apartments area, no soo rich. I dont know if there are or not baseball stadiums in Mumbai, but Caracas and all Venezuela its full of baseball stadiums. There are no big leagues team in USA without a venezuelan player. That is our main deport. Cheers!



Posted by RichIndian | April 9th, 2008 8:53 am

Yeah why don’t you do that? I’ve been to cities like Cleveland – the difference between the rich and poor is more than just money there. Clean up your own house first.



Posted by phoenix | April 9th, 2008 10:19 am

@MAX “Good work Nancy Drew. But you have clearly never been or even seen India!”

I actually LIVE in India



Posted by RichIndian | April 9th, 2008 10:37 am

Also, If you look closely the cars are moving on the right side of the road. That doesn’t happen in India.
F*cking morons. All they can do is portray the rest of the world as miserable… out of fear.
Die in hell you cultureless scums.



Posted by ionku | April 9th, 2008 11:46 am

@richindian – i think you have mega f*cking big glasses if u saw that — GEEK. RichIndian means that you leave on the left side or right side. I think the poor one, because your culture show’s that. MORON



Posted by Sarah | April 9th, 2008 12:58 pm

The last few look a little like Mexico city. Also, as Michael stated, some of these homes may be a little cramped but are not that bad. It’s hard to judge from an aerial photo.



Posted by mahdy | April 14th, 2008 11:50 pm

yes



Posted by mohsen | April 15th, 2008 5:22 am

مرگ بر خامنه اي



Posted by Charlie Rodes | July 27th, 2008 4:45 pm

At least brazil has figured a way to keep shitskin niggers on their own side of the street.



Posted by Yelle | September 9th, 2008 10:13 pm

Clearly all these Indians are idiots, won’t admit that you have a little problem in Mumbai with the Dharavi? (Dharavi is the biggest slum in Asia and just moving around in Mumbai will result in atleast some contact with the Dharavi)

Oh well, be poor. Atleast I stayed in the rich area and drove a Porsche.



Posted by ozzyopener | March 12th, 2009 8:50 am

Theres a clear difference between the shacks in mumbai and those in the rest of the photos. Whats culture worth, when u need to eat your own shit just to survive. Let’s face it ..toilet countries like india and pakistan should just do us all a favour and nuke each other , no more poverty and no more shit cricketers



Posted by popejoy | August 29th, 2009 12:47 am

Watch, Rate, and leave a Comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zad1TB2-tmM



Posted by anil reddy | November 30th, 2009 11:40 am

Yelle, (Dharavi is the biggest slum in Asia and just moving around in Mumbai will result in atleast some contact with the Dharavi)yes its true,Oh well, be poor. Atleast I stayed in the rich area and drove a Porsche,who the fuck cares where u live n wht u drive asshole.
ozzyopener,Whats culture worth, when u need to eat your own shit just to survive,who is eating shit u idiot,there are so many casts in india,few upper many lower casts you should understand that first.Let’s face it ..toilet countries like india and pakistan should just do us all a favour and nuke each other , no more poverty and no more shit cricketers,face ur own ass creep mother fucker,why r u comparing india with dirty islam place pakistan idiot.yes cricket is shit i hate it,yes no more shit cricket n shit creep cricketers.and do me a favour nuke ur self and dirty islam people asshole.



Posted by alex | May 21st, 2010 10:11 am

first photo of sao paulo is true, the second is completely fake.



Posted by Atira Tandel | February 11th, 2011 3:37 am

wat ever it may b bt evn if ders diffrns in both the section
v all stnd 2gether 4 prblms
dats y v r proud 2b an Indians



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