Rich Vs. Poor In the 3rd World

April 9, 2008 - 16,791 views

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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3. Mumbai
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22 Responses to “Rich Vs. Poor In the 3rd World”

  1. phoenix on 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

  2. Max on April 9th, 2008 5:31 am

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

  3. liquuid on April 9th, 2008 6:07 am

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

  4. SV on 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 !

  5. Vinay Gupta on 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.

  6. Vinay Gupta on 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/

  7. Vinay Gupta on April 9th, 2008 7:10 am

    Helps if I remember the URL:

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

  8. Vinay Gupta on 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

  9. Vinay Gupta on 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.

  10. Michael on 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

  11. Te on 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?

  12. agnas on 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!

  13. RichIndian on 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.

  14. phoenix on 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

  15. RichIndian on 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.

  16. ionku on 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

  17. Sarah on 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.

  18. mahdy on April 14th, 2008 11:50 pm

    yes

  19. mohsen on April 15th, 2008 5:22 am

    مرگ بر خامنه اي

  20. Charlie Rodes on July 27th, 2008 4:45 pm

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

  21. Yelle on 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.

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