Portugal is poorer than Spain, but it looks wealthier and lacks these povertyblocks in every city. How comes?
Portugal is poorer than Spain, but it looks wealthier and lacks these povertyblocks in every city. How comes?
Gabriel Robinson
Jonathan Thomas
Their economy is booming, unlike Spain who has a collapsed economy
Christian Gonzalez
> looks wealthier
well not really
Brandon Jackson
>lacks these povertyblocks
Carter Price
Alexander Williams
>it looks wealthier and lacks these povertyblocks
Logan Carter
but generally I can agree that Portugal looks surprisingly good for its low GDP per capita/average income level. I guess they must have been really wealthy in the 1980s-2000s period when most of their infrastructure was built
im kinda surprised why Portugal isn't more popular as a tourist/expat destination, sounds like a really cozy place, cheaper and nicer than many overhyped ones
Jace Martinez
Lot of drug dealer and street crime for what ive understood. Vagrant travel youtuber got sucker punched and had his things stolen in there
Levi Hall
This is something I can't understand how it works in first world. Here it's pretty easy - if a neighborhood looks bad, it's also unsafe, crime ridden etc. Meanwhile in the west everything is perfectly renovated, even neighborhoods with unemployment 90% and lots of crime so you can't really distinguish between safe and unsafe places because they all look equally good.
Kayden Morales
>lacks these povertyblocks in every city.
those blocks could easily cost million euros, how is that poverty
Camden Russell
Its rather easy, look for these sings.
>area has lot of minorities, alcoholics/drug addicts
Parker Phillips
All the Portuguese I've met were drug dealers lol
Ayden Lee
>area has lot of minorities, alcoholics/drug addicts
but you don't see it on the spot, only if you already enter the neighborhood (when it can be already too late for you)
here you simply don't go to ugly hoods, simple as that
Isaac Ortiz
Funny. All the Portuguese who come work a part-time job here only do it for the drugs
Nicholas Moore
Bad neighborhoods in the West will also feature high-rise commieblocks, they're easy to recognize. France is chock-full of them, Germany will have them in poorer cities, Spain is basically nothing but Francoblocks.
UK, Belgium and Netherlands may be the sole exceptions, as they really only have rowhouses, barely commieblocks.
Logan Thompson
This can be the most dangerous hood in all of Austria but it looks so similar to middle class neighborhoods here so I wouldn't be initially afraid of walking there but then I could get punched and robbed by some youngsters.
The west isn't a place for a simple man who thinks with obvious patterns "nice - go, ugly - don't go".
Leo Hall
>Spain is basically nothing but Francoblocks.
do you mean all of Spain is no-go zone?
Xavier Turner
No. Spain is actually fairly safe in comparison to France and the UK. But its bad neighborhoods will be very easy to recognize.
Adam Adams
>middle class neighborhoods here
Maybe in your shithole
Asher Collins
Well, Spain apparently isn't a typical westoid country so still the pattern "ugly/not maintained = bad" works there. It doesn't in Germany or the Netherlands or Finland because everything looks equally good there
cope, such are neighborhoods where just normal people live, including lawyers, doctors etc. In Warsaw 50 sqm apartment in an average commie hood costs 150k eur nowadays.
Blake Barnes
Probably historic reasons? Spain went into a civil war while Portugal stood under an isolationalist Fascist who just sat there and prudently kept his economy stagnant and finances stable. So I guess Portugal would be better off than Spain
Angel Evans
There are no dangerous hoods in Austria. You can go to the most dangerous minority filled hood in Vienna and stumble around drunk and nothing will happen to you.
Michael Cooper
Spain looks wealyhier than Germany, to be honest.